Research:Genre

Genre characteristics

A genre is a relation to music videos that is a style or category that type of music videos that belong to. A music video often reflect their genre through the use of specific characteristic which makes them conventional.

It's easy to identify different genres as its a lot more clear to see  their characteristics. For example I can clearly recognise if a music video falls into the rock genre this is because the lighting is always low key lighting and its always performances based  which the camera mainly focus on their band.


                                        Some example of genre: Hip-hop  will Smith 'Miami'

 follows classic convention of Hip hop genre and also the rap genre such as
 Rap- Mainly the theme is usually about their life in hood, crime and about the drug lifestyle.  

always about the rivalry who is better at the rapping game and the location is mainly in the neighbourhood showing the struggle of their life (gang signs and guns).This is conventional to rap genre as the girls are wearing bikini, and the star may not be wearing a the usual rap wear: such as hoodie, baseball hat, baggy trousers.

Pop-close up of the artist this is show the release of the new artist so the audience can be more familiar with the artist.Party lifestyle, disco ball.

Genre rock: Low key lighting-angry facial experience by the band
usually girls in the videos have  a lot of piercing Gothic style and black leather. They don't care about their appearance. The audience can easily recognize  rock music  by the pace of the song is effective by the lyrics the rebellion against ideology.



Indie- The artist voice is usually simple. Low budget -filming and the locations quit simple.
usually performance based -very focus on the artist. There's hardly narrative behind  the music.
editing are usually very slow , so the main focus are on the music and the artist.

Grime-low budget filming and the location simple, the themes are usually about fighting, drugs, money, violence, which also include social realism. performance based and concept- clothing- hoodies, caps and tracksuit.

Conclusion-  I will  be R and B  genre for my music video  which means that i will include hip hop  style  of female and males dancing, club setting  to show the artist dancing.