It is mostly dominated by bands although solo rock music artists also contribute to its popularity. The rock genre at first sight seems mostly dominated by male solo artists and bands although woman have been ever more accepted into this genre and are becoming ever so popular in this day in time.
The rock music itself is mostly known for its sharp beats and drums, their electric guitar use and its eccentric performances.
Although the pop genre seems to be the most popular at first sight due to huge press and it is immensely talked about; the rock genre is the most listened to among the average music fanatic. Whereas the pop genre is all about 'showing off' in order to be known by everyone, the rock industry is about attracting attention too, however they attract attention to their music in a way that the audience doesn't look at them as some kind of super-empowered artist but the rock genre audience sees their idols as more approachable.
Rock music videos, will almost always be performance-based, which correlates into them not being as much interested about how they look (personally) to the audience but they want them to focus mainly on their music. Although most Rock music videos will NOT include a narrative, they might have a story line (although usually left out and just focused on their performance, as said before). If a story line is present it is usually very simplistic and easy to follow by the audience because most of the time it illustrates the lyrics (which goes with Andrew Goodwin's theory about music videos).
The most used camera angles for this genre would have to be: high angled, hand held shots, group shot/long shot and constant close ups. High angled shots are used to establish the setting of the video, the hand held shots give a more realistic feeling to the audience as if they were the ones filming it, the group and long shots are used in order to showcase the whole band and to capture an overall image of the narrative (if there is any) of the video.
The editing in rock music videos usually correlates directly to the pace of the song. The editing basically goes at the same speed ad the beat of the song. Therefore, if someone is angry the editing pace is very quick, whereas if someone is sad the editing speed is slow accordingly. It is all kept very simplistic in the stage of editing for Rock music videos, and special effects are rarely used in this genre showing its simplicity.
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