Music Video Research.

Why are music videos made?

Music videos to help promote the band and the song they have created. the song itself cant always count on itself exceeding in popularity on its own merit so it is good for a band to create a suitable video to match the song in order to help boost the songs sales and overall popularity with people as it is stated that a song cant always count on it exceeding on its own merit.

Where can music videos be accessed?

Music videos can be accessed on lots of websites which will have links to the videos. you can also watch music videos via the music channels on a TV which will offer lots of different genres of music and the music videos associated with them. There is also ways of watching all music videos on YouTube via all music channels and official VEVO accounts of the bands. you can also sometimes catch the videos on the band or single artists website. music videos are now streamed over website such as Twitter and Facebook which are social networking sites and so people can see videos that have been posted through YouTube and watch them like that and then the person watching it can share the video which is a free promotion to the artist making the possibility of a band making a music video more attractive as it can be promoted freely and quickly potentially making the song more popular.

Media conventions for my genre of music video.

My genre is of an Indie Rock style and would involve me getting ideas from bands like Arctic Monkeys, The Kooks, The Killers or bands like The Strokes. So at the beginning of this research i have seen that i could use story lines such as a band playing their instruments in parts and cutting away to a storyline of what would relate to the music or the song i decide to use nearer the time. it will be hard initially to think of a storyline as i will be using the song of the unknown band WordsWeLiveBy and this will enable us to think together of what the song is about and the context of the music.