Pop Rock Conventions

After looking and researching several videos of the rock pop genre it became quite clear what the conventions of pop rock happen to be:


1. All the videos are built up of several elements that almost nearly always are used:
        - Main narration   
        - Flashback narration
        - Performance whether shown through a fake performance as in Pinks video or in seperate performances that are almost random as in Maroon 5s video where they are in a room randomly.
        - A seperate performance where it is just using a closeup of just the main singers head where they are singing the song.


2. The main singer is shown to be singing for the majority of the video, with very few of the lyrics not being sung.


3. Lots of closeups are used to fit in with the idea that the singer is singing throughout most of the video.


4. Lots of shots are edited together and the edits are fast and almost keep to the beat of the song.


5. Young people are used in the video, either late teenage or in their twenties.


6. Transisions when it comes to editing are clear cut generally although the image is sometimes overlapping.


7. The narrative is generally about a break up of some kind between a man and a women.


8. Imagery in the lyrics is generally not exactally matching with nothing exactally literal. Though there is matches between the two.


9. The misc en scene is pretty dark in colour and tone when it comes to clothing, setting and image.