Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Research - Functions of a music video

Functions of a music video:


A music video has many functions in itself. One of the main purposes of a music video obviously is to entertain the audience, therefore the video needs to be interesting and engaging to its target audience. Also, there are two ways of determining the functions of a music video; one being to promote the artist so that they can get signed to a record label or to just simply help the artist become known and build up a fan base. However, some artists already have an existing fan base so the function of their music video may be to promote their album so that they can get as many people to buy the album when it releases as possible.

This is an image which represents my idea about promoting the new artist. This differs from the image below the artist is shown large and clearly in the picture so that the audience can look and remember how she looks like.

This image shows the cover for a single from Frank Ocean's album - Channel Orange. In comparison to the first image, this doesn't have a picture of the artist on it. This is simply because Frank Ocean already has an existing fan base and this is to promote his album.


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