Some music video conventions

• Cutting on the beat
• Close up of the artist's face to show identification and through advertising
• Instruments shown through a performance.
• Narrative. Tends to be linear but in a performance.
• Parallel editing- Editing between different scenes/spaces.
• Strong relationships between music and image. Pace of editing reflects song, movements of artist/dances, movement of camera.

These are conventions for a basic obvious music video, however like ourselves other conventions may apply, as we have created an abstract music video.