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Joan Lynch states that there a three main basic video structures:
Performance
Narrative
Concept
These different video structures can be extremely different to one and other,
however they all serve a central purpose to represent the music of the video in
some way and target their audience for which the genre of the music is.
From Andrew Goodwins theory I can say that he sees music videos as videos
which are very much in touch with linking to the music which is playing and
expressing a relationship between the music and the lyrics with the visuals. To
explain further it means that the multiple micro features used to construct the
music video are very intentionally built up and put together to follow and express
the music which is being played.
He also says that music videos have their own styles, as well as their own
iconography which will be show through the various micro features, such as
cinematography and mise-en-scene.
Intertextually referencing other sources such as other music videos, films or TV is
quite popular in these videos, especially in mainstream music videos because it
can easily draw in more audiences who were already aware of the aspects being
referenced.
Jon Gow has identified six genres within the performance music videos which
shows how unique and different the various video structures can be, with some
performance music videos not having a performance of the music at all, or
displaying the video production or representing the video as a documentary.