Tuesday, 27 September 2011

Genre Research - Conventions Of A Music Video Of My Genre

In hip hop music videos there are many conventions that is usually displayed through editing, cinematography, performance  and mise-en-scene.



Mise-en-scene: hip hop is a genre which involves a lot of flashy expensive things and which is related through music videos because they often have bright lights like in the image below. while having bright lights artist often were dark colours and show is the setting like below.




Performance: in hip hop performance is often very energetic with lots of hand movement and attitude which has been a convention from the start as hip hop originated from a dance culture. in hip hop music like the one below there is often a lot of people from artists to extra's which is also a convention for artists to perform with a large large numbers of people in shot.






Editing: in hip hop music videos the editing is generally very fast paced due to the normal tempo and it often suits performances.



Cinematography: in hip hop music videos often just have variations of camera angles from the same position depending on the background like the music video below is all shot with the camera in the same position just at different angles

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