Research: Genre

Genre

Introduction:

Different genres of music make each genre of music unique as they have different genre characteristics which enables the audience to recognise the different genres immediately without any doubt as the audience are aware of the different genres and the different characteristics.

What is a Genre?:

Genre is a style or a category that a music video can be recognized by for example there is Pop, Hip Hop, Rock and many other genres or categories which music videos fall into.

Examples of Genres:

• Rock: Rock music originated from rock and roll in America, now rock music is different as the artist wear dark colour and the colour black is associated with rock.

• Pop: Pop music is a very bright and clamorous genre where most of the artist are young and appealing to the audience.

• R&B: R&B music genre is always representing their wealth, fashion, cars and women.

• Rap: Rap music genre also shows fashion and it it also reality such as drugs, crime etc.

• Garage

• House

• Jazz: 

• Indie Rock

• Punk

• Classical

• Hip Hop: also is a music genre where their is fashion, women and wealth in the music genre.

• Afro Jazz

• Blues

• Folk

• Soul

• Reggae

• Club

• Electronic Dance

• Gosepol

• Country

• Alternative

• World

• Disco

• March

• Film Score

• Technical

• Latin

• Children's

• Funk

• New age

• Bollywood

Examples of Artists:

• Rock  Artist: The rock artist or bands shown in the images can be identified as rock artist r bands as they have the genre characteristics as they wear dark clothing, long hair and sometimes appear scruffy as the artist don't have to be appealing as they have a loyal fan base already.
  

Arctic Monkeys

Linkin Park

The Fray

                                                                                                                                      

• Pop Artist: The images of the pop artist clearly show the genre characteristics as all the artists are very appealing to the audience and they look very glamorous.
  

Katy Perry

One Direction

Beyonce

   
                           

• R&B Artist: The genre characteristic of R&B is shown by all the artist dressing a certain way where they all have chains and expensive watches and ea piecing, caps and hoddies or vests on. They display the life of wealth and fashion.
  

Akon

Craig David

Chris Brown

Jay z

• Rap Artist: The rap genre characteristic is similar to R&B where the artist wear the big chains and caps living a life of wealth and fashion.

50 Cent

Snoop dogg

• House Artist

David Guetta

• Jazz Artist: Jazz artist are very well dressed and they present themselves very well to the audience as jazz is more appealing to and older and much posh audience.

Fourplay

Chris Botti

• Indie Rock Artist: This genre characteristics of indie is very casual as the artists look like the average people in society.

Vampire Weekend

Passenger

Illanois

• Hip Hop Artist: Hip hop artist also live a life of wealth and Fashion.
 

• Folk Artists:

Cat Power

• Soul Artist:

• Reggae Artist:

Bob Marley

• Country Artist:

Emiley West

• Latin Artist:

Shakira

Jennifer Lopez

• Bollywood Artist:

Shaan

Characteristics of Genres:

Music videos genre characteristics can be easily identified as the genre characteristic is what makes music video unique to from each other.

This is a table that shows have different music genres differs from each other.













Audience:

With the genres having specific characteristics this enables the audience to recognise what genre music a music video is and it also builds a reputation n the eye of the audience where they can decide what music genre they like and like to listen to due to the unique characteristics. Without the genre characteristics the audience would not have a wide variety of music genre available to listen to.

Conclusion:

In conclusion i think that i will make a Pop music video as it is what most appeals to the audience today because if you can get a very appealing artist then a lot of people will view my music video and the promotion will be much quicker.