Tuesday, 14 September 2010

Genre & Convention Research

Typical features of my chosen genre are videos fueled by images depicting the band usually playing at live venue. Another feature often used by artists when creating music videos is the appearance that they are the life of the party, this often shown by having the band playing at a house party or another event.

An example of this:



Another convention seen within this video is to make the band look humble. As can be seen in the video for "Alexisonfire - Born and Raised" when the audience can see the band members playing domino's. I believe this makes the band seem down to earth and also adds an element of humor to music video which another aspect seen alot during this genre of music video.

Another example which combines the live aspect and the humor:

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