Music Video Techniques

MUSIC VIDEO TECHNIQUES

Popular Music Genres - Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud

Ed Sheeran is one of the most popular artists. Long side John Newmann and Sam Smith. Their brand of pop music dominates the charts. Songs and videos are often to true stories and love stories. The music video 'Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud' is almost at 1 Billion views on YouTube as it already has over 800,000,000 million views in the space of a year.

Live Footage - Drake - Back 2 Back

Drake is one of the most popular artist's in the world right now in Hip-Hop. The Hip-Hop genre fan base always hype up when Drake released a song. In this footage he is performing 'Back 2 Back' at J Cole's concert. The is which is meant to be an insulting track that goes to Meek Mill for saying bad things to him via Twitter.

Animation - Kanye West - Heartless

Kanye West is known to be the funniest and better Rap artist in the world according to votes on twitter and parody accounts. He's also recently said that he was running for President in 2016. Graphics and cartoon images are used to represent the music’s genres. In this cartoon music video 'Heartless' Kanye is trying to say that him and his love are doing things behind each-others backs but they aren't admitting to it. 

Pastiche - Eminem - Space Bound

Eminem is the most known artist in the world. His main genre in Hip-Hop. This was quite a surprise back the 2004 because there wasn't many white rapper and the fact that he was fast and good at it, everyone started to praise him. In this music video he is imitating to be his friend who ended up dying because he found out that his girlfriend was cheating on him. Eminem paid respect by letting the world know what love can do to you and how much of a friend he is.  

Parody - Crank That Curry Sauce 

Crank that Curry Sauce is comedy version of Crank That Solider Boy by Solider Boy. Parody versions have the same beat as the song but change up the lyrics and make them funnier than the original version. The people who made this parody never uploaded again due to the harsh comments they got by Solider Boy's fans. 

Lips Syncing - Carly Rae Jepsen - I Really Like You

Carly Rae Jepsen is most commonly named the best Canadian female singer/song wirter according to her fan base. She first caught fame by coming 3rd in the Canadian Idol and then she brought out a song called 'Call Me Maybe' which peak top of the chats on Hot Billboard 100 due to Selena Gomez and her fellow Canadian Justin Bieber tweeting the song. In this music video, she doesn't lip sync until the end because the old man is lip syncing whatever she says. Towards the end, everyone's starts lip syncing and dancing.