What is a music video?

A music video is a video produced by a working artist/band. These videos help them to promote new songs or singles, and are also often used to help promote new artists/bands to make them popular. Music videos will be often concept, narrative or performances based or even a mixture depending on the target audience, for example. A rap music video often includes the rapper(s) directing the camera like they would in a performance based video, but the setting and props will nearly always be concept based i.e. performing in a play ground or from the back seats of a limo.