T2-Understand the styles and conventions of music videos, Part 3 illustrative forms

Narrative
Narrative music videos are usually story based and have a storyline that usually  illustrates the lyrics of the song. for example there is a underlying narative throughout the music video of 'Take on me' by a-ha 

Impressionist

Impressionist music videos use artistic concepts to illustrate the song.  A example of a impressionist music video is Adele- Rolling in the Deep.

Surrealist

Surrealism is seen quite often in small amounts on most music videos having sections/ objects or imagery that seems out of place and illogical. however a good example of surrealism in music videos is 'Come To Daddy by Aphex Twin'.

Pastiche

Pastiche is a style that mimics the style or genre of something else an example of such is Christine Aguilera - Candyman.

 

Parody

Parody is near enough the most abundant style of music video ranging from professional parody artists such as Weird Al Yankovic down to many unprofessional parody artists that make them for fun such as Harry Partridge  of which many can be found on video sharing sites such as youtube and such artists make fun and twist the lyrics and meanings of many things including film, music, games and various other mediums. here is a example of parody of michael jackson's 'beat it' by Weird Al Yankovic.

Homage

Homage is the style of referencing somthing within the video to pay respect an example of this is Thirty Seconds To Mars - The Kill (Bury Me) which references the film The Shining in setting and the lead singer sits at typewriter alike jack nicholson's character in the film.

Intertextuality

interectuality is the reference to other media texts such a example of this is in the music video of Robbie Williams - You Know Me which makes refererence to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer logo with Robbie's head with a rabbit mask on replacing the lion.