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Styles of a Music Video

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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