iconic videos

Here are a few music videos and an explaination of why I believe that they are iconic

Bruno mars- Just the way you are

the use of special effects and a ‘normal video’ combined to show the artist singing in person and also singing through the film from a tape as bruno mars becomes a image made from the tape. The interaction between the artist, girl and the film from the tape are used very well together creating different images that move slightly or move like a cartoon would but then it can also create a new image by itself. This is iconic because of the creativity between the artist singing and an image f the artist singing has barely been used before.

Gnarls Barkley- Crazy

The whole video is done by using ink moving in patterns, having the artist face in ink and singing. It’s not a normal video as the whole thing is black and white and there isn’t a real life figures white a setting as it is just ink. The ink moves to the music and the patterns are almost hypnotic to watch. It still shows the singer but not in the conventional way. This is an iconic video as there has never been a video quite like it previously or even now.

Christina Agulera- Candyman

This is an iconic video as the video is working off sex appeal from a women, using the past as a setting. Having men shouting/singing towards the girls acting like animals make them look irresible. This music video has 4 different places of where the artist is singing: on a stage as a singing act for a the army men, in a 70’s café, at the air field, blank background and at a dance but they are all linked togther at points with the way she is dancing or singing.