Budget Categories (Assessment 1A)

Range of budgets for music videos

Higher end budgets have a better creative idea for the audiences which will make the music video more interesting and enjoyable for viewers. Higher end budgets consist of complex visual effects and more expensive locations.

The budgets for music videos are there to cover the costs of creating the video such as storyboards,props, location fees and more. The lower the budget the less amount
of money is used to create visual effects which help to engage the audience.

100k budget music videos
An example music video created on budgets of 100k would be the song stay by the artist Rihanna.The genre of the song is R and B. The genre R and B generally used a higher budget for the productions music videos as the want to create a more powerful visual effects for the audiences.

The video includes both artists, who both take apart in the narrative of the video. In order of this the music video is able to seems more realistic and relatable to viewers,

inferring that they can feel

engage to the artist and get an understanding from the visual effects. The use of the budget enables the music video to be effective to promoting the artist. The editing of the video helps to create a mood  including camera shots such as close

ups and mid shots, making the audience get the sense of the video being based on the artist emotions.

Therefore the audience feel more interactive with the artist feelings a connection with them during the video.

200k music videos - Beyoncé single ladies 

The higher range for budget on music videos are likely to get more viewers that may repeatably watch the video. The music video for single ladies became popular mostly to the target audience of women mainly cos of the meaning of the song talking about single ladies also the fact the artist was a female. The choreography of the video became very popular to viewers where everyone would copy the dance and doing exactly as the artist did in the video making the video seem more enjoyable to viewing and entertaining as well as a well known dance track which went viral to audiences around the world.