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Music Videos and its Theories
By Haja Bangura
Andrew Goodwin
• There are 3 ways in which a music video works to promote a song:
• Illustrate – use of a set of images to illustrate the meaning of the song and genre
• Amplify – meanings and effects are manipulated and constantly shown throughout the video and drummed into our vision
• Disjuncture – where the meaning of the song is completely ignored.
Sven E Carlsson
• Carlsson believes that one of the most common methods of analysis is to break up the music video into black and white boxes.
• Music videos fall into two categories:
• Performance • Conceptual
Sven E Carlsson
• Performance – where the audience is able to see the artist singing and dancing throughout
Sven E Carlsson
• Conceptual – when the audience watch something other than the artist of the song
Michael Shore
• He concludes that music videos are recycled styles that contain an information overload therefore contains views of adolescent male fantasies.
• Most videos contain elements of speed, power, girls, wealth and living the ‘ideal life’
Michael Shore
• Music video examples of the theory