Conventions of One-shot Music Videos

From our research into one-shot music videos we found they shared certain characteristics:

• Lots of shot movement
• Bright/note worthy costumes
• Focus on performance/action
• Bright colours
• Plain backgrounds eg grey walls
• Blocks of colours
• Lots of interesting props
• Narrative within shot
• Lots of pans/tracking/extreme shots
• Frame within frames
• As hot moves around the difference in mise-en-scene usually provides the progression
• The artist usually drives the shot's motion