Exploring Music Video

In this blog I will analyse four very different music videos, they will be different in which by significance, also genre as they are conveyed through a different aspect.The music video for

Run-D.M.C. ft Aerosmith - Walk This Way is in the Rap/Rock genre as the song is a collaboration of two different genres a fusion of rock and hip hop. This music video is a classic as it was shown on MTV as being the first Rap hybrid video. The music video represents a rockband and a hip hop band only being seperated by one wall and they breakthrough the wall. This symbolises that Rap music has broken through into music by becoming more mainstream. This music video would be targeted at young men and women aged between 16 and 30, as in the video the crowd consists of this age range in the live audience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIbHPs_M55Q

Another music video I have chosen to use Madonna- Like A Prayer, it is the genre of Pop and Gospel as it features a choir taking part in the chorus. This video is very controversial as the key theme is religion and that there are interpretations as not being interpretated correctly such as a the guy being the black version of god, or discriminated for his race, this is also altered in the narrative as Madonna tries to pray and sing for the guys innocence as she witnessed a murder he did not commit. Also a controversy of burning cross fires, convey that in the video Madonna is potrayed as anti-Christ. This is symbolic as this a rare to be shown in a music video as it is a risk

to go against religion which is taken very seriously in the media. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA983t3Rdzs&ob=av2e

I feel that the music video Michael Jackson's - Black Or White is a highly interesting and symbolic music video to explore as it features controversy, love and anger. This is shown as the genre is a mixture rock and dance-pop, this is a key theme for this music genre. It is controversial as it the song title represents the two skin colours in the world. That is controversial as people may find this racist or hurtful towards them, also shown in the video is racist graffiti this is significant as this had to be censored such as 'Hitler rules', which conveys unacceptable in the media. The main narrative in the music video is that the father who is featured he is a white cultured man and he ends up in Africa and has Michael Jackson singing Black and White to him and is surrounded by various cultures, being expressed. The anger is conveyed the fire and the shootings, also the father getting angry at his son for playing to loud music. So this contrasts with love as this may show the father loves his song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA983t3Rdzs&ob=av2e83t3Rdzs&ob=av2e

For a very different music video I have chosen to use Backstreet Boys - Everybody. The genre of this music video is Horror as the narrative is conveyed as scary, features mummys and werewolfs in a castle, also this is a nightmare. As there bus broke down in conveys trouble as it is dark, also the bus driver is shown as being Frankenstein's Monster. It is also conveyed as a horror throught blood and fangs this symbolises danger and horror as it can be gruesome, and negative consequences. The video is targeted at young girls aged 10-20 as Backstreet Boys are a Pop boyband, who are wanting to convey an image that is unlike how they are normally conveyed in the media. Overall this could convey is that the horror is to shock fans of how they can look, so don't under estimate the power of image, it is a huge influence, as this may encourage fans to buy a single. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6XE1XRiLeY