Styles of Music Videos

Pastiche-
Fall Out Boy- Centuries
 Pastiche as a genre of music video uses and manipulates different periods throughout history as inspiration in the respective video. This music video in particular uses the Roman Empire as inspiration, using the Colosseum and shows a battle between the band members and a Roman warrior.

Cinematic-
Michael Jackson- Thriller

 Cinematic music videos are often well received by the public audience, as while we can listen to music and get a story that many people can enjoy, music videos such as "Thriller" are designed to be watched multiple times for the elaborate and detailed story, while other cinematic music videos take priority in creating a simple story that people can enjoy while listening to the music while not drawing the attention from it.

Narrative:

Imagine Dragons- Radioactive

 Narrative music videos are often created to complement a song through a fairly simple story that the audience can watch while listening to the music. In this example, the story is of an illegal fighting den with teddy bears, showing a rough and dark side of a happy premise. This video is a good example of one that can be watched repeatedly for the music, yet only a small number of times for the video before the gimmick runs dry. Despite this, it is still a successful narrative video in its rewatchable structure to an extent.

Parody:

White and Nerdy-Wierd Al Yonkovic

The parody genre of music videos are mostly dedicated to creating different songs entirely using the track of already existing songs. This example shows Wierd Al Yonkovic create a parody of "Ridin'" by Chamillionaire in order to put a comedic twist on a comparatively serious song. The parody does it's job very well, given that it even parodies shots use in the actual video for "Ridin'", creating a greater comedic tone to the video through highlighting the differences in the cultures and lifestyles of the targeted groups.

In Concert:

Imagine Dragons- Demons

This particular genre of music video is done to create an atmosphere around the song that isn't given through a story or characters to follow, as this type of video focuses mainly on the group singing the song to their audience instead of it serving more as background music to a story. In this instance however, while the main focus of the video is the band singing, it is also littered with small details of other characters in order to fit the song. The way that this is done is successful in spreading the songs message, as well as giving the music video the feeling of being at a concert spliced with mini stories for eh audience to follow.

Abstract:
Justin Bieber- Where are U now

Justin Bieber's song "Where are U now" can be considered an Abstract video due to the little relevance between the songs lyrics and the video. While the song portrays Bieber's feelings about being alone, the music video is almost exclusively single shot pictures of drawings over videos of Justin singing and dancing. There is no obvious reason that the video may enhance the songs emotional influence on people, making the video a relatively redundant or abstract video.

Performance:
Tinchy Stryder & The Chuckle Brothers- To Me To You

The music video to "To Me To You" is mostly Performance based as the main artists in the song appear in the video. While this song isn't completely serious in its premise, it does feature all of the vocalists in the song and in the video. The song is very basic in its story, with Tinchy Strider doing an interview for SBTV and ends up meeting the Chuckle Brothers, with their conversation taking place in the rap and song sections of the song.

Animated:

Arctic Monkeys- Do I Want to Know?

"Do I want to know" by the Arctic Monkeys features an animated video best described as psychodelic to accompany a song that is calm and easy to listen to. This makes the video easily rewatchable as background noise, or if a person particularly likes the genre of 'Stoner Rock' as it is popularly known. The video itself contains many different visual effects, all with the effect of flowing and perfect transition between different scenes in the video, again lending to its easily rewatchable tone to the video and song.