More research - different forms of music videos

After looking into more music texts, we found that there are numerous different forms of music video. There are performance pieces, experimental pieces and those with a narrative. The performance pieces are usually focussed on the band or solo artist performing. Such as this song by 'The Killers'.



I thought that we could use a few shots like these, where the artist or band is seen drumming or playing the guitar or singing to the camera/into a microphone. This seems to be very common in the Indy/Punk-rock genre, and therefore the audience would be able to relate very easily and recognise what this video is about.


Experimental pieces are usually done as more of a form of art, as an experiment. Such as the 'Red Hot Chilli Peppers' song 'Can't Stop'


We could implement various similar shots, however with the genre of the Pistola Kicks being very different to the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, it would not relate very well to the target audience, and would not fit overall with the punk-rock genre.


Narrative based music videos are much more rare and hard to film. These are texts that follow an obvious narrative path, such as 'The Killers' music video to their song 'A Dustland Fairytale'



Narrative music videos are very effective, they are also fairly common within the punk-rock genre, so the audience could relate to what kind of video it is very easily, and would be attracted to it. This type of music video is very difficult with most songs, as they don't usually follow a set narrative, however my song 'Friday Nights' is very narrative-based and it would be very effective to follow this narrative throughout the video.