Music Video Genre Cont'd

Other commonly used genres for music videos include animated videos. An example of this is Avenged Sevenfold's 'A Little Piece Of Heaven'


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This type of music video is fairly entropic and gives the artist more freedom and creativity to the video as ideas which may not be possible by using actors may be drawn up and used in animated music videos; the killing sequence within this music video for example.

Horror music videos are also becoming more popular in todays music videos. These are also known by 'Apocalyptic' videos. An example of this is Cannibal Corpse 'Death Walking Terror' These videos are easy to recognise, as they contain horrific elements, such as blood, gore and violence. Videos within this genre tend to be redundant as they are all based on this elements, but entropic as they find unusual ways of portraying the violence involved within the video.

Comedic music videos are also popular with modern music. Tenacious D's 'Tribute' is an example of a modern day comedic music video, and it also contains entropic elements to create such an unusual and funny video (for example, the idea of a devil only 'eating their souls if they dont sing 'the best song in the world' is rather unusual).

Behind the scenes and tour videos are becoming more popular also as they are economically cheap and simple to produce. An example of this is 30 Seconds To Mars' 'Into The Wild'. These music videos are successful as fans are often interested in seeing their favourite bands backstage and their live perfomances, especially if they have recently been to the concert where it has been recorded, to see if they made it on to the video. Live perfromances also show the bands' energy which would attract the fans to watch them live.

Other music video genres include hybrid genres (narrative and performance for example), dancing, dis-jointed, illogical, classic, low budget, soundtrack/film, sexually available, emotional, parody and montage.