Research: Genres

Genres

What are genres: Genres are the different categories of music there are in music world. They allow music to be defined by the way that it sounds so that the audience will always know what they are listening to.

Genres: Indie, Rock, Punk, Country, R&B, Dub step, Garage, Soul, Pop, Techno, Rap, Afro jazz, House, Alternative, Heavy metal, Hip-Hop, Grime, Classical.

Genres characteristics:

Rock: Rock is known to be dark with strange camera angles and camera movements. The bands/artists are known to be no conformist and rebellious with dark clothing sometimes leather, piercings and spiked hair. They are also known to be angry people but have a very loyal fan base that will stick with them.



Pop: Pop music is bright and lively uses high key lighting to exaggerate every image it uses simple edits and simple camera shots but notion of looking is used a lot more to make the music more popular to males or females. Bands/Artists will wear sometimes revealing clothing to make themselves more popular to a certain sex they are very conformist to promote what is popular so they are in with the in crowd and are no one to have very loyal fans while popular.

R&B: R&B music is  very lively and can use high and low key lighting depending on what the artist intends their video to be like. Notion of looking is used regularly in this genre to make males or females more attracted to the video. artists will wear very conformist clothing and promote brands in videos. They tend to not have very loyal fans they will only listen to songs that they like by the artist.

Importance of following generic conventions in music videos: This is important because it is making sure that the video is going to be successful for the target audience and their fans because that is what they are used to.

Conclusion: This has helped me understand which genre id want my video to be based in and what that genres conventions are to make the video I make a good one.