music video styles

narrative

alt-j breezeblocks

the story is being told backwards so it is non-linnear but when told forwards the narrative is clear and exemplify narrative techniques. the main part of the narrative type is that it contains a actual narrative and tells a story from start to finish. it will lightly contain a climax, incident start and finish but not necessarily chronologically in order.

the cinder-block is checkovs gun and the songs namesake. the video uses mise en scene to make the viewer try to figure out what will happen next as the events are playing in reverse it is non-linnear that changes the viewers perspective to try and solve who is in the wrong. most music video show the singer in different places.

concept

Billie eilish bellyache

this style has no timescale but rather it is supposed to be aesthetically pleasing and has no narrative or story but it makes you try to make implicit meaning out of the setting. this video has various scenes that don’t mean anything specifically. this video has little to no story but you are supposed to analyse the mise en scene and aesthetics to draw meaning.

performance

this genre is completely about the song and aesthetics there is even less to do with the videos meaning and all to do with the music or look. the video is more dependent on available spacing. the genre has developed as perform