Beyonce 'Green Light'

1. It was directed by Melina and Beyoncé and is a r'n'b/funk video
2. The lyrics and visuals are illustrative eg:

• on the line 'Like a perm that's been left too long' she acts as if shes combing her hair
• on '2 millions' she has to fingers up
• green boxes are on the screen during the chorus
• ends with a green screen

3. Illustrative:

• cuts to the beat
• band shown esp at the end of the video focusing on the brass instruments and the drums
• the bridge of the song is a lot slower and here theres no dancing just beyonce lying on a life size sign

4. There are constantly visual hooks throughout the video

5. Scopophilia

6. The music video was inspired by Robert Palmer's music video Addicted to Love and Madonna's Human Nature. her dancing infront of the band remindes me of Amerie's Onte Thing video

7. Mostly concept and performance based...there is no narrative within the video

Link to Amerie One Thing: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xa1qaAcJG70

Link to Robert Palmers Addicted To Love: http://youtube.com/watch?v=C4EJkI3hN0w

Link to Madonnas Human Nature: http://youtube.com/watch?v=7emPXuqN1xc

Different Music Videos: Genres

THE GORILLAZ - They are an elctro/rock band who could also be classed as alternative rock. Their videos are pretty interesting as they are alsways in a cartoon format and they tell a story thaat is loosly connected to the actual song. Heres an example:



NICKELBACK - They are a rock band and like many other rock bands their videos always feteaure the band playing the song either in a concert or in a recording studio. this video as well as the video for theie other song Far Away are an example of this:



MISSY ELLIOT AND CIARA - both hip hop and r'n'b artits have dance as a major part of their video. This is common for most videos of this genre as seen in other artists videos like

The Loose Control video by Missy Elliot is a great example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_jlcMVI5xE

As is Ciaras Like A Boy:


BRITNEY SPEARS (early years) - Pop videos as we know it (old school pop like Nsync) have very cheesy dance movement that exaggerate the lyrics in the song:


nsync are the epitemy of the old school boy band as they have a bunch of girls dancing around them as well as having the cheesy boy band moves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIwm9jUjLvk
this song in general sums up the pop genre and the video jus emphasises the ideas they talk about in the song