researching genres and music videos

Research
whilst i have been Looking at different types of music videos I have been seeing a pattern with the genre and the video matching the music. Many songs use the video to help tell a story about the song this is where the video matches the lyrics. Other videos help increase emotion or the feel of the music this is where the video matches the music.


I have researched four types of music that I could use for my video, this is what i found:





Country Music
Most country music tells a story whether it is about love or violence. Many Videos reflect and create a story in the video to get the meaning of the song across even more.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTNKiAj1twc





Hip/Hop – Rap
In this genre they tend to talk alot about pain and showing off, many lyrics talk about “rags to riches”. The Videos are normally the rapper or singer showing of cars, money, women etc.. I think this is to make young children feel this is how they want to be when they grow up. There are normally alot of close ups normally close ups of the rapper then distant shots to show all the stuff he has, I think this is a good method of showing everything he has as it makes him look far superior to anything or anyone else. There is normally a lot of modern dancing and girls around the main artist. If the artist is singing or rapping about pain they still will have expensive jewelry and clothing on to show off.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO22Z0T3qPE

Rock/Indie/alternative

Indie music (rock) usually consists of bands performing etc.. the videos usually match the music and sometimes the lyrics. The video will sometimes tell a story but shots of the band will still be used. In a lot of cases the videos will use shots of the band performing live this is a stereotypical rock video. Many videos are just shots and cuts from live performances i feel this gives a more energetic feel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxjuJNHGSNY

Pop
This is a mixture of many genres, pop doesn't have a stereotypical music video, other then well groomed and clean cut artists and dancers. Many videos will have dancers and the artist dancing in sync, it will usually have a catchy chorus and normally the song will become repetitive at the chorus to match this, an example of this is : Cheyl Cole - Fight for this love. This song is a great example as the artist repeats the chorus over and over and in the video repeats the dance over and over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4umc87T5UMs