An Insight In To Music Videos

This music video is called 'Kickstarts' by the artist Example and is a cross between performance and narrative. The film is effective as a low budget concept as it is filmed mainly in the same location with a vast aray of simple yet effective editing techniques. This makes the video more aesthetically pleasing alongside the song. The video contains the artist (Example) singing, but also involves a form of narative with many other actors performing throughout the video.

These 2 music videos 'Golddust' and 'Louder' are by the artist DJ Fresh. I would class these as narative based concept videos as although the video tells some form of a story, it does not coincide with the lyrics of the song and therefore could be seen as quite disjointed. In comparison to 'Kickstarts' these videos use little editing but are effective by focusing on talents and skills (double dutch jump rope and roller blading). These can be seen as quite random concepts to place in a music video however I feel that they fit well with the tempo and the pace of the music.

 

This music video is called 'Written In The Stars' by the artist Tinie Tempah featuring Eric Turner. This is a performance video with an element of narration. There is a good mix between the performance and narration cutting between the two throughout the video. This is the most effective narrative video I have seen because the video truly narrates the song allowing the viewer to gain a much greater understanding of the true meaning of the lyrics.