A large majority of those who did my survey said that they prefer a song to have a music video because the visuals make it more interesting, they can see how the artist interprets the song and the visuals help with he song. The ones who said they didn't prefer songs to have music videos because they focus more on the song. So this tells me that the best aspects to have in a music video is to show a version of how the lyrics can be portrayed.
Based on these results, people like to see narrative and performance in music video equally, these were probably equal due to in most narrative music videos there is an aspect of performance, so people expected to see more narrative and performance over conceptual understanding.
There wasn't a single answer repeated when asked what is the preferred genre of music, they were all different because the range of people listened to a range of music. This doesn't tell me anything really.
For a music video to be interesting and watchable i have a few different answers that can help put ideas towards the video like dancing, creative visuals and a story. These are all things i could add to my music video to make it interesting.
People said the most common thing to see in a music video is artistic portrayal, meaning how the artist sees the lyrics meaning. Close to that was artistic branding, this is things you can identify the band or singer by, for example a name or a logo on the drums or like Lady GaGa's outfits.
Lets of people liked seeing a narrative in the music videos, this can relate to a previous question i asked about how to make a music video interesting and someone put a story. Narrative seems to be the most popular and understood genre of music video. Experimental and stadium performance were close by this also goes with some of the answers that were suggested to make a music video more interesting.
This gives me a list of some of the music videos that people watch and listen to, to give me some idea of what people expect and like in a music video.
a majority said that music video often contain intertextual references, in the explanation underneath it was suggested and parodys, where people take popular films or tv shows and create a music video are around them.
Most people thought that the video should illustrate the lyrics, this is to show on screen what the lyrics are saying. For an example Who let the dogs out should illustrate the lyrics of dog by showing a dog. Although not many music videos illustrate and if so don't do it alone, from my research i have found that it is popular for the video the amplify the lyrics by lip syncing.
This is the genre of music that i prefer and am most likely to pick a rock/ indie song to put in my music video, i wanted to see how like and popular the genre is, and it is as a 75% majority like this genre of music.
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