Thursday, 25 September 2014

Music Video Analysis: Boston Bun

The genre of music that my music video will be is UK jackin' house/garage so I need to do some market research to find out what sort of music video is made for this genre. Being an 'underground' type of genre, meaning niche or catering a small audience, there aren't many UK house/garage music videos. This is because most house/garage songs are not produced by large record labels and therefore don't have the extensive promotional package that comes with mainstream songs. Also this genre is a type of dance music so house/garage songs are designed to be played in nightclubs and not watched on MTV or YouTube. However with the right promotional package, house/garage songs do make it onto the mainstream. Which is why I am going to produce a promotional package for Jackal's song.

Boston Bun is an artist of a very similar genre to Jackal. He makes French nu disco/electro house music. Boston Bun is signed to the French electro house label, Ed banger Records, who are famous for 'post-cartoon' imaging in their music videos. Boston Bun's music video for We Got Soul ft. Bear Who? is particularly interesting because it is entirely computer generated and conceptual but also follows a weird and wonderful sort of narrative (which is a hot-dog walking through a mashed up landscape of famous landmarks and pop culture). Jon Gow (1992) would without doubt fit this music video into the special effects extravaganza category.


1 comment:

  1. Well written and interesting to read. You show a very good understanding of the music genre. Well done.

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