Conventions of Noise rock

As part of my research for my music video, i am studying the conventions within the noise rock genre. Here are three of the music videos i have studied:








Out of these three videos only two of them show the artists. The Health video is quite different to the other videos, and other videos of the genre that i have seen as it uses footage purely from a television programme. Taking footage from programmes can be common in music videos for this genre, but only like a three or four second long clip, so this genre still goes against the conventions of the genre by the amount of television footage in the video.

The Sonic Youth video is quite conventional of the genre as the film quality is quite bad and this is done on purpose to fit the the more distorted sounds, the band is in the video and this is conventional of the genre

The Polvo video has the artist in the video but the people playing the instruments are actually friends of the band instead of the actual members. This subverts certain conventions of the genre as the artist is often seen playing the song, although some members of the band are still in the video so it still follows conventions in that sense.

Goodwin's Music video conventions

After studying Andrew Goodwins theory that music videos follow six conventions, I decided to apply this to a recent music video to see if the conventions apply to all music videos. The song that i decide to study was Crystalline by Björk. Here is the music video:



Here is a powerpoint presentation i made including screenshots showing points throughout the video where the conventions are shown.

Goodwins conventions for crystalline

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There are however some of Goodwins conventions that this video does not follow, there is no voyeurism of the female body within this video or intertextual references and as far as i am aware the video does not follow genre characteristics closely