Performance Based Music Videos

 Performance based music videos are generally made up of footage of the band of artist performing their track, although sometimes in different settings, such as a gig or a studio setting. This type of music video features the artist performing their song ‘live’ for the duration of the video. Performance based videos are perhaps the cheapest of the three to make, as they require less setting, and all that is really needed is a suitable location for filming. Another purpose for performance based videos is for promotion, as it promotes the band or artists live performances and/or tours, by creating the atmosphere of a concert and showing the audience to be having a good time, therefore tempting audiences in to buying tickets for their concerts. Well known examples of performance based music videos is Saving Aimee’s “Fresh Since’88” and Green Day’s “American Idiot”