[mairdie]

Nope.

Literary Song Videos. They come in 2 types - living room videos and auditorium videos.

Take the lyrics of a song as, essentially, a short story. Then illustrate them in a video context. Exactly the same internal structures as a short story.

For an auditorium video, almost all the clips chosen are matches of actions to words so that everyone can “get it”. For a living room video, you pile complexity upon complexity so that the more you get to know the show, the more subtlety you’ll find in the 3 short minutes. Think of it as a mental game and it will make more sense.

Almost NO connection to what is a traditional MTV video.

[Zhang Fei]

[Nope.

Literary Song Videos. They come in 2 types - living room videos and auditorium videos.

Take the lyrics of a song as, essentially, a short story. Then illustrate them in a video context. Exactly the same internal structures as a short story.

For an auditorium video, almost all the clips chosen are matches of actions to words so that everyone can “get it”. For a living room video, you pile complexity upon complexity so that the more you get to know the show, the more subtlety you’ll find in the 3 short minutes. Think of it as a mental game and it will make more sense.

Almost NO connection to what is a traditional MTV video.]

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Very cool. I was wondering there, given that music rights can be prohibitively high. Putting these songs in some obscure foreign production seemed like a good way to eat up a good chunk of production budget without commensurate revenue increase.