Task 5

Music Video Forms and

Conventions in Genres
By
Subhaan Omran
Forms and Conventions
Form How a media text is made.
Conventions Things that you expect to see in a media text.

Music videos mainly have forms and conventions that

Show off the artist to the audience through a performance.
Make the song memorable to the audience.
Send the audience a visual message of what the song is trying
to communicate in its lyrics.
 Genre
Almost all music videos have forms and conventions that are specific to their genre of music.
For example the genre of Rock is known for conventionally showing
A band performing
Instruments being used to performs the song (guitars, drums etc)
Focus on the lead singer

Arctic Monkey I Bet You Look Good On The Foo Fighters Rope
Kasabian Days Are Forgotten
Dance Floor - Use of Instruments. Lead singer Dave Grohl
- Focus on the lead singer
- Showing a band performing. playing the guitar
Forms and Conventions in Grime Music
I decided to identify the forms and conventions in music videos of
one of my favourite genres of music: Grime.
In doing so, I decided to look to 3 of the most viewed grime music
videos on YouTube.
Stormzy Shut Up
JME Man Dont Care (feat. Giggs)
Skepta Shut Down
 Forms and Conventions in Grime Music (2)
After watching all three music videos, I found that Grime music videos commonly feature

British Council Estates and other areas in UK.

Large Groups of Youths

Tracksuits/ Sport Branded Clothing Cars

(Nike, Adidas etc)