Defintion Of A Music Video

A Music Video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos go back even further, they came into their own in the 1980s, when MTV’s format was based solely around them

Must Do's For Music Videos

This is what I need to do in order to make a music promo as good as possible.

Copy of letter to artist or record label must be on blog with their response to it.

Lipsync – you are graded on accurate lip sync

Know your lyrics and sing along

Performance – believable

Vowels – mouth movement

Play the song so it can be heard on camera (recorded) as well as by ARTIST

x1 ‘BASE TRACK’ is an absolute must ie sing through whole track at least once

Editing to markers is a MUST/alignment of tracks – research how to do this

Different shot angles

Keep locations straight forward – 4 maximum

Keep x2 weekends free to get promos shot

No sound tracks with DRUGS or SWEARING.

No more than 3minutes long

Editing to the beat of the music – this is what editing markers are for.

Use a genre that is clearly identifiable

Faster paced music will require more shots/slower paced music less – keep your idea simple – the simpler the better.

Must Do's For Music Videos - Copyright

•Examiner's report, I definitely need to get artist's permission:

For music videos, permission should be sought from the artist for use of the audio track. Where this was breached, centres either didn’t comment on the use of a found song, or acknowledged its use but did not reflect it in the marks allocated.

 In these cases significant adjustments were made to construction marks which potentially puts in danger the order of merit, thereby affecting the outcomes for those candidates who had followed the requirements of the Specification; such a situation may also result in all work being returned to the centre for remarking.


This is an example of a copyright letter that I will send to the people who hold the rights to the music.