Categories of Music Videos

Within the music industry in all music videos there are only three types of videos that music music videos can be. these are;

-  Performance based videos
- Narrative based videos
- Concept based videos

 A performance based music video is a music video which shows a live performance of a band or artist and then music the video is edited to look professional with music added over it and not the music from the original performance. An example of this could be kings of Leon Supersoaker
 

A narrative based music video is when the music video follows a story which has some relation to the lyrics of the music. This category of music video relies on the music video to create an impact to the audience and draw them into the story. An example of this could be Ed Sheeran - A team



Lastly a concept based music video does not follow any sort of story and is not a live performance. A concept based music video is normally quite random and does not have any associated with the artist themselves. An example of this could be;