Music Video Genres and Styles

 There are five main types of music video Genres:

1. Performance:  This is the most common and old genre of music videos where you will see a band performing on their instruments. Such music videos can include dancing, lip-syncing, and band members playing their various instruments. It can even be a recording of them playing live in some cases. performance videos are also very easy to make and require skills like dancing, lipsyncing, etc.

2. Narrative:  A narrative-based music video is a music video where the artist is trying to tell some sort of story. It is essentially a short film based on the song. Narrative music videos typically include a structure of a beginning, middle, and end. There are also usually no lip-syncing or musical performances in the video.

 

3. Concept: Concept music videos are videos without a storyline and typically have no relevance to the lyrics themselves. Such music video is usually based on the artist's vision. It can be seen as a way to expand their creative vision with the song.

4. Lyric: Lyric music videos are just what it sounds like. Music videos with lyrics on the screen as the song goes along. The lyric music videos typically include a font that matches either the theme or the genre of the song and the background color and font color that goes along with it.

5. Animated: Animated music videos mean everything from a simple 2D animation to stop motion or CGI. Animation music videos typically follow the same structure as other music video types. In some ways, you can see the animated music video as a hybrid.