Performance in Music Videos

Performance in music videos:





Giggz – Look What The Cat Dragged In; Grime.

There isn’t much performance in this video, which is typical of a Grime video, for the majority of the video we see Giggz standing in the same position, occasionally he will dance but not for long. We see lots of women in the video, which is also seen a lot in Grime videos, we see the women dancing for the majority of the video or we see the women around Giggz himself.

We see a lot of pointing towards the audience and making eye contact from Giggz, he points towards the audience and also himself almost as if to say; im the one you should be looking at.

So looking at a very typical Grime video; we see that Grime videos tend to not have a lot of performance in them from the artist themselves but the people around the artist use a lot of performance.

The artist themselves tend to stand in one position for the majority of the music video trying their best to look cool around there group of friends.




Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire; Rock

This video is a very conventional rock video, in mise en scene is very dark, the costume is very rock like, i.e. vests, dark clothes and lots of jewellery. We see lots of instruments which is seen in a lot of rock music videos.

The performance is what you would expect to see in most music videos, a “crazy” type of performance, there is one part of the video where we see 3 of the group are pinning down the other person in the group which makes the audience ask the question. “what are they doing?”

We don’t see much dancing, again this is expected from this type of video because the main type of performance we expect to see is instrument playing. However we do see lip syncing, and making eye contact with the audience which is common in most videos let alone rock videos.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94RNp7veIJE&ob=av3e


Katy Perry – Teenage Dream; Pop

Compared to a regular Pop video this video is quite different, and very different compared to Katy Perry’ previous videos. For instance ‘I kissed a girl’ and ‘California girls’. Where we see a lot of dancing and over the top dancing with a sexual tone to the video. Whereas this video has no dancing but still has a very sexual side to it.

This video is different because she has swapped over the top dancing to over the top sexual scenes; this shows that she is a good versatile artist because this song is currently number 2 in the UK Charts (14th September 2010)

Compared to regular pop and Katy Perry videos this video lacks performance, because we only see her on her feet for about 10 seconds of the video. The rest of the video she is laying on a bed or sitting in a car.