Music videos use...

- References to other media / intertextuality
- Pans/moving shots
- Smooth camera work
- Lip Syncing
- Individual shots as well as group shots
- Editing to the beat
- Fast edits with the music
- Stereotypes shown
- Composition
- Confident performers
- Lighting important
- Performers : young, physically attractive
- Depth of field
- Costume important!
- Good focus
- Band: all together
- Close up's
- Rule of thirds