The document discusses how music videos often visually represent the characteristics of different music genres, with indie videos typically featuring performance shots and R&B videos often including dancing girls. It also notes that music videos commonly draw relationships between the lyrics and visuals, and may reference other films, TV, or music. The example video for Lana Del Rey's "Young & Beautiful" features close-up shots of her singing and an orchestra performing to represent the song's theme of beauty amid darker lighting and colors.

2. Music
Videos
Musics video often
demonstrate musical genres
characteristics e.g. Indie=
Performance shots, RnB=
Dancing girls.
There is often a relationship
between the lyrics and
visuals - (Goodwin).
There can be intertextual
references to film, tv or other
music.

3. Young & Beautiful - Lana Del
Ray
The music video would come under the category
of performance as it consists of Lana Del Ray
signing to the camera then cutting to an
orchestral band performing.

4. The video consists of many extreme close ups and
beauty shots of the artist face. This creates a
relationship between the lyrics being about
beauty and the use of the artist face to match the
lyrics.
The lack of brightness but use of colourful lights
connotes the idea of youth and beauty being
colourful juxtaposed with the darkness of the
video being the fact we can not prevent ourselves
from ageing.

5. The row of mirror that appear at the beginning
and end of the video once again reinforce the
creation of a “beautiful” setting and link to the
narrative of the song.