Introduction - Music Video

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5. A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings.
6. Although the origins of music videos date back much further, they came into prominence in the 1980s, when MTV based their format around them.

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  Music videos use a wide range of styles of film making techniques, including animation,   live action filming, documentaries, and non-narrative approaches such as abstract film.   Some music videos blend different styles, such as animation and live action. Other           music videos may be without a set concept, being merely a filmed version of the             song's live performance. 

 Style...

 Music videos can be categorized in terms of the style use, thes include:

 --Performance -

The recent music video from the weeknd called "Can't feel my face" is a performance by The weeknd in which he is singing the song by himself. 

 

--Narrative/story -

The music video of Ed sheeran's song "The A team" shows a story rather than the artist performing himself.

 --Mixed narrative and performance-

The recent music video from Justin Bieber called "What do you mean" where he is performing or singing the song and also the story is going on side by side of the music video.

 

 --Animation (digital/stop motion) -

The music video from David Guetta called "Bad" is all about the animation, where the animated characters are entertaining through out the video.

Search for music videos...

There are many applications and websites which provide music videos like- 

www.youtube.com

www.MTV.com