Codes and conventions of animated music videos

After analyzing all these music videos it has become clear that like all music videos, animated music videos follow a generic set of codes and conventions fitting the intended genre and creating an atmosphere intended by the director. From these videos I have found a list of factors that are common in all the animated videos.

• Very little or no diagetic sound, audio dominated by the music track.
• Either very few shots often with one lasting the majority of the video or shots similar to those of a normal music video.
• Mise en scene is used strongly mainly with props, often relating the the narrative of the story and lyrics.
• The visual narrative of the videos often includes a journey.
• Editing is always matched to the visuals, with fast paced editing for fast paced music and slower editing for slow music.

I will have to consider all these factors when story-boarding and animating my video.