Music video examples : Performance

Well known band Mumford & Sons can often be seen to adopt a performance style on there music videos. An example would be theIR song; 'I Will Wait'







Secondly, the music video for AC/DC - 'Back in Black' also uses a performance video to demonstrate the meaning behind the song. Andrew Goodwin spoke about how the style of a video can foreshadow a specific genre, one being a performance video most commonly matched with a metal song/band. AC/DC supports this by many of its music videos being composed as performance, more examples consist of 'Highway to Hell,' 'Thunderstruck' and 'Hells Bells.'