While Music Videos can be classified through their type and genre, another method to classify them is through their style. Some popular styles of music videos include:
Animated Music Videos
Animated Music Videos are quite self explanatory. The Video is made using animation and the animation styles can vary. The video can be an animated narrative or even an animated concept video. Examples Include:
Caravan Palace - Lone Digger
SIAMES - The Wolf
Fever The Ghost - SOURCE
Impressionist
A music video that aims to create a fantasy and take the audience away from reality, into the fantasy is classified as an impressionist music video.
An Example would be
a-ha - Take On Me
Surrealist
A surrealist music video is very similar to an impressionist music video. it contains dream like and unreal elements, giving the audience a dream like feel.
Intertextuality
Intertextuality is the way in which one media text refers to another. Intertextuality in Music Videos is common and any video that has elements referencing to any other or number of other media text/s, of any kind, is a music video with intertextuality.
An Example of a Music Video with a lot of Intertextuality would be of
Charli XCX and Troye Sivan - 1999
Allusion
A music video with Allusion style is one that, in a way, misleads the audience. The audience is under the allusion that something specific is going to happen and are expecting it to take place any time, however, the story changes and the action/activity/incident that takes place is nothing like what the audience expected. So, its a music video that has an end that is not what the audience expected it to be.
Interpretive
An interpretive music video is one which almost every or most members of the audience interpret differently. The reason for this could be that the video itself has multiple meanings or is open-ended which encourages different interpretations.
Examples of such videos include
Eminem - Lose Yourself
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