Research On The Genre For My Music Video

By: Shahrukh Hussain

Genre A style or category of art, music, or

literature is known as genre.

List of some music genres

Alternative Blues Classical Country Electronic Folk Hip-Hop Jazz Latin Metal Opera RnB Rap Rock Pop

Rock Rock music is a genre of popular

music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later. Rock music mostly involves electric guitars, electric bass and drums, like other genres as well. But, modern rock involves distorted guitars, effected bass, drums with steel snare and a wide range of equipments is used in the modern rock.

Rock

Rock is further on divided into types. Some of the types of rock are given below :

Alternative Rock Soft Rock Hard Rock Progressive Rock Punk Rock

General Rock General Rock is derived from the rock music. It was introduced

in 1990’s. It is more of a heavy and progressive form of rock music. There are several bands all over the world who produces general rock music. For example, Dream Theater (American), Nickelback (Canadian Band), Entity Paradigm (Pakistani Band), Nirvana (American Band), Foo Fighters (American Band), etc. I am inspired by all of the bands as mentioned above, specially, by “Dream Theater” because, the music they produce, attracts me and the structure of their music, inspires me. They play very technical songs, which are quite difficult to play. For example, A Nightmare to Remember, Metropolis, Hollow Years, The Dance of Eternity. I wanted to make my song very difficult and challenging, that’s y I opted this genre for my portfolio of Media Studies. I tried to make the track sound good and technical at the same time as well, for the audience.

I am inspired by the video of “The Looking Glass” – “Dream Theater” as it uses dark lighting, variety of camera shots and angles, which I would like to use in my self-produced music track’s video for the portfolio. Some of the screenshots of Dream Theater song’s video are shown, below and in next three slides.

Guitar Close-Up is used here

Birds Eye Shot is used here

Over the shoulder shot is used here

The Location The band have used their own jam room for

the shoot of this video and I will also use this idea in my video.

The Make-ups No such make-ups were applied in the video. They have

kept it totally natural and I think I should also keep it this way.

Hairstyles All of the band members have long hair in the video, as

mostly rock musicians or metal musicians have long hair because it gives a heavy and a dark impact on the audience, but none of the cast will use long hair in my video for portfolio, they will use short hair.

Sound & Feel Every music has a different feel. Soft songs

gives you an emotional feel and hard songs gives you a crazy feel. If we talk about Dream Theater’s wither, it gives you a deep, emotional feel. If you talk about Dream Theater’s Enigma Machine, it gives you a hard, aggressive and a crazy feeling but if you talk about my own song, which I have produced for the portfolio, it gives you both types of the feeling, emotional in chorus and aggressive in verses and riff.

Logo & Fonts Logo and fonts of a band depends on

the genre of course, as all of the logos and the fonts cannot be used in every type of music. Rock bands uses a Gothic or simple type of font and logo, pop bands use fancy type of font and logo. It all depends on the music a band produces. I will use Gothic fonts and simple logos for my project.