Research Blog: music blog convention

 So as stated before I am planning to do a rap music video. This means the conventions about to be stated  for the music video only pertains to the rap genre. With that being said the rap genre do have many conventions that can be applied in many different ways. But there is always a few conventions that stay the same for a majority of rap music videos. First of all In rap music videos the perform is  most of the time is facing the camera. Its almost like there performing for an audience. Another convention of rap music videos are shot cuts. shot cuts normally and should be fast paced. They should also match the tempo of the rap song. Longer shots do take place in rap videos. When longer shots are used its usually to try to portray a narrative. A rapper in a rap video for the majority of the video will be lip syncing. another convention of rap videos is there usually rapping in this case its a music video so their lip syncing about material goods. Rappers love to rap about there wealth. Other things that rappers love to rap about in there music videos is sex money and drugs among other things. Sometimes especially if rappers are story telling they rap about deep topics. lets say for example the appear is rapping about his childhood.The music video would show scenes related to his youth. If its not that the rapper would probably be lip syncing n the setting of his youth. Here's another example lets say the rapper was rapping about sad topics such as substance abuse. The scenes would be a lot more dreary and sad.The hues of the music video would probably be blue and dark to basically reflect the sad tones of the rap video. Basically this is to say that the music video reflects the mood given by the rap