The Purposes of Music Videos

The purposes of music videos are to promote the artist, this is so more people find out about there music and this gets more people listening to them, this also helps them sell more of there music and this results to them getting more known. In some music videos the band has clips from a new movie, this helps promote the movie and also the band. Also the artists can raise awareness in there music video for example bullying, they can act out how bullying can affect someone and show people what bullying can make a person feel or do.




In linkin Park's music video for New Divide they have shown clips for the film Transformers Revenge of the Fallen. This helps promotes the film as well as the song. The song is also featured in the film, so when you here the song in the film you will think of linkin park.





Ok Go's music video for White Knuckles helps raises awareness for adopting dogs that need a home. With the release of the video, OK Go encouraged its viewers to assist in animal rescue efforts through their web site.






The band Rise Against song Make It Stop shows how bullying can effect someone and the consequences of bullying a person to the point where they want to take there own life. It also shows what the victim's life could be like when there older but because there being bullied if they take there life they wont be able to achieve it.