What Makes A Good Music Video?
 

Hello, i'm making a music video for my year 13 media coursework and would like to know what people like or find interesting about them.

What makes a music video interesting and memorable?

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

A good song. :finger:


Seriously though, there's no magic pill or specific answer to that question. Great music videos have always found a way to blur the line between the aural and visual elements of the music they represent.

I'd recommend against planning too much of the video until you've figured out specifically what song you want to make a video for. If you go the other direction you'll likely end up with the equivalent of one of those youtube mishmash of anime clips synced with some cheese metal.

Thanks for the reply

I agree entirely :) however i was asking generally what people like about them.

Also the song will be a 60s-style rock song from a local band

Music videos!
 

I Have to create a music video for my Media School project

What sort of things do you like to see in music videos?
The song is Lincoln Parks, New Divide.

Any ideas?!

I should first say that I never understood music videos, I never enjoyed them and I never watched many of them. My impression of most of them was that they were just trying to flash enough images on the screen so that someone with a 10 second attention span would sit through a 3 minute song. Some of them actually told a story, most of them didn't.

But now I've been "hired" to make one. They have realistic expectations: a few shots from a live concert, a few from a studio rehearsal, and a few wandering around in an aspen grove. I can string them together and dub in the song and we'll have a video.

But that seems really shallow. And while I tend to believe that most videos are really shallow, I'd like to think that I can go at least one step up. I just haven't much of a clue how to do that.

Assuming you're working off of a minimal budget, you should focus on doing the simple things as well as possible.
Don't overcomplicate anything, just keep it simple. As Ben, above said, try just getting a few clips of the band playing, perhaps with a black and white filter if you're trying to recreate a 60's video.
I've always thought a video just following an artist in the snow/ on a cold night makes for an interesting enough video. It's a tried and tested concept too.

I like to see the band playing, maybe in a studio, warehouse, rooftop, or whatever, with subtle effects added (shaky camera, flashing lights, etc.). Not a huge fan of animations or story driven videos. IMO music videos should just be a showcase of each member, maybe give a preview of what a live show might be like.

I don't think you would be able to accomplish this sort of thing as a student, unless you have a group that can mock play the instruments.

I hope its better than the Linkin Park song!

well IMO seeing the band is a must ....

It's funny, this is pretty much an exact description of the kind of video I don't like. Seeing the band generally takes me out of the experience of enjoying the art on its own terms and instead makes me focus on the image of the people producing it. Plus, those kind of videos have always been boring to me. You have all the freedom in the world with video, why not do something more creative with it?