RESEARCH : TYPES OF MUSIC VIDEOS

There are 3 main forms of music videos:

1) Performance

2) Narrative

3) Conceptual

 In performance music videos you ill see a solo artist or the band performing to the camera. There is no proper story-line but its more like a live performance recorded.For example 'fix you - coldplay'

In narrative music videos it contains a story-line or a visual story that closely reflects the lyrical content of the song with little to no interaction of the singer with the audience.

whereas, conceptual music videos are based on a single idea or concept and are usually unusual and obscure such as unusual images and narratives, or shots/story-line having no connection with the lyrics, or sometimes few lip-syncing or sometimes no lip-sync. Basically this type is mixture of both types above with some qualities of its own.