INTP- Inaction Video - So you're ready to film a Music Video for your new single. The only problem is you think that a simple Performance Video just won't cut it, you haven't got a budget for the Great Balls of Fire, you find the Surreal Music Video idea pretentious and the Animated Music Video stupid. Or you're just tired and don't feel like doing it. Times like this call for the Inaction Video. The concept behind such a video is remarkably simple: the band or the Face of the Band stand around motionless or calmly perform their song while the background's dedicated to either Funny Background Events or a wild party with lots of people. The key here being that the band never acknowledges their surroundings and just does their own thing independent of what's going on while looking completely bored/disinterested/high.
ESTP- Fight Fur Your Right To Party - Parties are a classic choice for music videos - after all, nothing says that a band is fun like having them turn a house full of dullards into bacchanalian pleasure seekers. But only the most awesome gatherings turn the phrase "party animal" into a literal description, so any music video director worth his salt knows that if you're filming a drunken party you have to put at least one person in an animal suit. Bonus points if they start a fight with some ordinary revellers. Even more bonus points if they're actually in a fursuit instead of cheap looking rental costumes!
ISTP- Great Balls of Fire - Hard rock bands, and especially "Hair Metal" bands, with their aura of "Greek gods walking the earth," sometimes have a rather unfortunate tendency to rely heavily upon special effects such as fog, lasers or, more commonly, Impressive Pyrotechnics in their videos and stage shows. It's as much about the visual BANG as it is the music, sometimes more so. This attention to visual detail can be partly blamed on MTV, which transmogrified music from an audio medium to a visual one in the 1980s. Suddenly everything bright and flashy was in, anything simple and straightforward was right out; and as MTV grew in influence, music video budgets rose accordingly, allowing bands to afford more spectacular effects. That meant more explosions. Woo-hooo!!!
ENTP- Animated Music Video - This one is very nearly Self Explanatory: a surprising number of musicians have managed to see past the Animation Age Ghetto, and released music videos composed mostly or entirely of animation. These can range from traditional cel animation to CGI or stop-motion.
INFP- Fan Video - Also known as AMVs or Animated/Anime/Amateur Music Videos. In a nutshell, a basic concept is to take recorded footage from your favorite movies or TV shows, set all these edited scenes to your favorite music (maybe add some Fan-Art or subtitling) put it all together in a digital Movie-Maker on your PC, then upload it to any video streaming site online- and wait for awesome comments to pour in! YouTube is a popular choice. It's not the most productive activity in the world, but for the most dedicated, it is one of the most time-consuming. Like Fan Fics and Fan-Art, making and watching these videos is another way these fans express their consuming obsession over their favourite show.
ENFP- Surreal Music Video - There are a few basic routes you can take when making a music video. You can show the band performing the song, or tell a story (which may or may not relate to the song itself)...Or you can take the artistic path and just throw a bunch of weird stuff on the screen in time to the music. These videos either have no story at all or random Mind Screwy stories. Many Animated Music Videos fall into this category. Usually the imagery will be inter cut with or somehow involve the band performing, but sometimes they go all-out and dispense with the band shots as well.
ESFP- In Da Club - The best way to show that your group is "down with the kids" and "funky" - or whatever it is the under-25s say these days - is to stick them in a hopelessly contrived looking nightclub set full of impossibly attractive young women and maybe a few men and have them break it down on the dance floor, generally being the life of the party. If the video is for a proper instrumental band, expect the lead singer and lead guitarist to grab most of the screen time while the funny-looking drummer and bassist get a few standard shots of some women mooning over them.
ISFP- The Invisible Band - Sometimes musicians are... facially unfortunate. It's not their fault, but that doesn't mean you should pander to them by putting them in the video, oh no. After all, who wants to watch a bunch of ugly, hairy types leaping around when you can replace them with oiled-up catalogue models and whiz-bang CGI. As a result you get videos in which the people who made the music are conspicuously absent, having been replaced with any number of other, more visually interesting things. This is particularly popular in dance music videos; since dance music fans tend to buy songs they like rather than stick closely to any particular artist, there's less impetus to build up a "brand" by making the artist's face (and name) well-known. Additionally, as the artist very rarely contributes vocals there's very little reason to have them on-camera.
INTJ- Lyrics/Video Mismatch - This describes the situation where a Music Video follows a distinct conceptual narrative — but it's a narrative which has absolutely nothing to do with the song's lyrics or theme nor with the band's overall image, save (perhaps) only the thinnest of connections. Typically, no justification of the concept (such as All Just a Dream) is ever attempted.
ISTJ- Video Full of Film Clips - A common trope for songs that are part of a movie's soundtrack and (usually) written for that movie. The video consists of many clips from the film. This serves as an additional way of promoting the movie—often becoming its unofficial theme song (unless it's already the official theme song)—as well as providing another hit for the artist, and the song often finds itself as a bonus track on their next album or an Updated Re-release of the current. In more annoying examples, ever since The '90s, the song will have no direct relation to the movie at all other than the video, especially if the video is fully coherent without the film clips, since it might have been re-edited to include them note . The aversion is when the song is featured on a movie soundtrack, and might be directly related to the movie, but won't feature any clips from the movie at all, though thematic elements or even actors from the film may appear.
ESTJ- Changed for the Video - Every now and then when a Music Video is made for a song, the song will either undergo a noticeable change, or a different version than that on the album will be used. Sometimes a live version or a new recording is used, and sometimes certain parts are re-done for artistic or quality purposes.
ENTJ- Dress Rehearsal Video - A specific type of Performance Video in which the band is playing, but there is no audience. The artist might be in a bar at closing time, or in an empty club/theater, or maybe they were On a Soundstage All Along. The kicker is that they have full lighting rigs, special effects like fog and lasers or Great Balls of Fire, basically all the trappings of an actual concert. The absence of observers may be noted but is usually ignored.
ISFJ- Finger on the Lips - When a song contains swearing and the music video involves the band or singer singing, they will sometimes put their finger on their lips and not say anything when it comes to the offending word.
INFJ- Dramatic Wind - Before any fight begins or important truth is revealed, or if the character is simply standing and looking noble, a wind will invariably blow, ruffling his hair, the grass at his feet, and/or his cape if he's wearing one. Invariably the character is either facing the wind head-on (or less commonly, standing perpendicular to it) so that the effect is cool but his hair and garments won't get in his face.
ESFJ- Performance Video - Videos consisting largely of the band performing their song, either in front of an audience or not. Can sometimes overlap with the Video Full of Film Clips. This was the way most music videos were done until Duran Duran and Michael Jackson hit the scene.
ENFJ- On a Soundstage All Along - If the song you're making a video for ends with a dramatic fade of the instruments and you want a suitably dramatic ending then you could try the good old tactic of having you lead singer bow their head while the lights dim and the camera pulls back to reveal - ah ha! - that the band was On A Soundstage All Along. Thus you reveal the artificiality of the music video and undermine the video's story with an unsettling note of self-awareness. Or something. Anyway, it looks totally awesome. There seemed to be a glut of these around 2001-2005.
