Convention of Music Videos

This depends on the genre of the music, whether it be rock, indie, pop, R&B, or dance or any other.

• Lip Synching
• Dancing/ Dancers
• Microphones
• Instruments
• Special effects
• Editing suited to pace of music
• Actors and Actresses
• Costumes
• Glamourous people and settings

Music Videos can often tell a story which will suit the lyrics of the music such as Daniel Powter’s “Bad Day”.

The Music Video consists of two people who go about their normal boring day to work, in which they appear to be lonely, stressed and single. They work very late and we understand that they are both work with drawing. Over a period of three days, when they leave work and travel home they pass a billboard with and woman sitting on a bench. When the woman first passed it she creates a rain cloud over the woman. In response, when the man passes he draws a red umbrella over the woman. Over the three days a still picture is created on this billboard with a man and woman sitting next to each other on a bench, with the man protecting her from being sprayed with rain by a taxi and with a heart between them. When they both go home they finally meet, it’s raining, and taxis come and a man with a red umbrella appears. Resulting in them reflecting the picture they drew and finding love.