Friday 21 September 2012

Music video theory in the style of Sven E Carlsson


Binary opposites drive the narration e.g. black and white theme.  His main theory is that there are two main concepts that music videos fall into performance and conceptual. However he then splits performance into three different classifications:

Commercial exhibitionist:

This is where the video is made into a promotional video and a selling item. Also making the artist into someone the fans what to aspire to become. So therefore the artist will be the main focus and the shots where he/she is will be high quality and very clear.
Televised Bard:
A televised bard is a singing storyteller who focusing on using image on the video instead of himself as much.   A televised bard concentrates on the story more than on the video.
Electronic shaman
 For the majority of these type videos there will only be the singer’s voice and no shots of them. This will help enhance the idea of focusing on the music. This is less common with rock and indie because they need to be advertised.



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