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Each music video genre has its own subtle set of props, costume choices, locations and a wealth of other tiny features that may seem insignificant but can actually effect how an audience interprets the whole video or even song itself. An example I have chosen to use is from the rock genre is setting, setting is key in establishing the image of the band or singer in my opinion due to the fact that it gives the audience an idea of what kind of people/person the music is being produced by as well what sort of sound you can expect. In rock music industrial settings and equipment are not only used in music videos, they are used in pictures, actual gigs, on CD covers and even in the names of albums. When looking at an industrial environment the theme is quite a harsh one, hard, gritty, visceral and very unforgiving which already sets an undertone of what we can expect from the music. However reused mise en scene is not just limited to the rock genre or just locations, it can be noted in a lot of British pop groups, the constant use of popular fashionable clothes, a notable example being Olly Murs indie/hipster dress sense with very rustic, worn looking but clean clothes.Music video genres are also massively effected by mise en scene in the sense that it has a strong effect on the way in which an audience will categorise the video. The four main music video genres are Performance, Image, Spectacle and Narrative. In a performance we would see the artist or band playing together with the shots primarily focused on them. When a video is labeled an image it means that it is primarily focused on sculpting an image for the artist. A spectacle often lacks a coherent story and may be satirical, unrealistic or just strange. A narrative is where the music video in centered around a story depicted over the song. Each of these different types of video all rely on mise en scene to categorise them.
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