What is a music promo video?

Purpose -
- Too promote the song, make a bigger names for itself as a single, the album it's in and the band. Also for the record company can make more money from the song because more people know about the song, and who the band are. Too make money from the song because of all the money invested to create the music video and they are going to make a return on their investment.


How can a promo create a 'brand image' for a performer -
- It can show what the musician and band are really like, who they are what they look like and their style of music is. It can also put the point across of a point they are trying to make within their song.


Conventions? Camera Work? Editing? Sound? Mise-en-scene? Narrative? Representation? -
- Typical camera shots you would expect to see in a music would faced paced shots to keep up with song with alot of high energy from the band himself, shots of different istruments throughout the music video. Videos are able to let fans to feel they are close up to band or the artist.


Where can music promo's be exhibited -
- Music videos can exhibited on many things such on the TV on music programmes such as programmes like MTV, SCUZZ, KERRANG and many more. Also a lot can be seen on the internet on websites such as Youtube, Google videos, megavideo and many more.