Genre Research

During the research for ideas for the music video that I am going to product, I researched about genres. First I looked at my favourite genres (rock, metal, grunge, electronic, drum and bass). During my research, I looked at many music videos on Youtube and researched online about the mis-en-scene of genres and what is expected to be in a music video for a specific genre. For example, I found that in the majority of rock songs/bands, you would find that in the music video, they would included the band playing instruments and singing. The "original" instruments would be included such as the guitar, bass and drums.There are some videos that I looked at when researching the genre for my music video that I am going to create. Here are some videos on Youtube that I looked at:

Moonbootica - Pretty Little Angel

Moonbootica are an electric pop group also know as (electropop) who have quite a unique style of music.There are many things you can do with this type of music. The song "Pretty Little Angel" contains alot of sexual lyrics. Because of this, a lot of voyeurism can be used if I was to make my own music video using the song. The song is also not too fast and can be easily lipsynced. This was one of the songs that my group sugested to use for the music video that we were going to create. Compare to other genres, I thought about other genres such as rap and hip hop and I thought to myself that they would be too hard to lipsync and due to this, the performance may not be as good as might be too hard, considering my group is only two of us so I had to think simple and look for a genre that would be suitable for my group size but at the same time, I could keep the quality and high standard of a music video. When thinking about this type of song, I thought about the mis-en-scene that might have been included in the music video that I was going to make. The props that I thought about were chains, handcuffs, leather gloves, lipstick and many other sexual props that will be used. The clothing that would be included are lingerie such as corsets/black dress for a girl and a topless guy.

Electronic pop was not only the genre that I looked at as a part of my research for my music video. I also look at other genres such as alternative rock. I thought about metal, but when it came to looking at examples of metal genred music videos, I found that the music was too heavy and would be really hard to pull off a good performance, this is why I looked into alternative rock, rock and grunge. Here are some other examples of alternative rock that I looked at.

CKY - 96 Quite Bitter Things

 

Here are one of the music videos that I looked at from the rock genre. The name of the song is CKY - 96 Quite Bitter Things. As you can see, a lot of the music video is complete random and not much is going on apart from stunts. You get to see the band performing and they're using instruments such as guitars, drums and bass. They're dressed casually and sorta like teenagers and not serious like. Even thought this was not an ideal song to produce a music video for, I think it was a good example to show how you can make a music video from doing random things that does not relate to the song.