Research and planning: Styles of music videos

Due to my research on the topic, I now have a better understanding of the various styles of music videos.


  • Animation 
- These types of music videos have an animated film with the soundtrack playing in the background.
- These videos usually do not have anything real to show to the viewer, even though the song is produced by the original artist.

  • Interpretive 
- This type of music video can be interpreted by the audience in many ways.
- Each person can see this video in different ways and understand a different meaning according to their mentality. 

  • Impressionist
- An impressionist music video can be used to show a particular theme to the audience.
- It includes random and peculiar shots and images to express the theme of the video. 
- Abstract features are usually used in the style.

  • Intertextuality 
- References used from some other media product, mythology, history or any other existing thing is taken and shown in the style of music video.

  • Surrealist
- Similar to impressionist music video, this style is very abstract and may not have a relation with the music itself.
- It contains surrealist, artificial, unreal or superstitious elements in it.

  • Allusion
- It is similar to intertextuality  to some extent.
- An allusion music video gives reference of another thing sometimes directly or indirectly.




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