Research Blog: Music Video Conventions

 Que Vola Mi Gente! I am back with another blog. I hope your day was well and you spent a good time doing hard work. Now, this music video is going to be very hard to do. The dynamics are very different than those of our last video. Now I am sorry that I have not been making the due dates. I have been very busy trying to balance a work-study life.  No excuse. However, the basic step to salsa music videos isn't hard at all. Usually, it is pretty jovial people dancing in the background to a singer's voice. Singers rarely make appearances in their own videos but when they fo they try and dance too. Now outside of the one-two three-step. Salsa also called swing adapts its style from a variety of different musical styles. So by nature, you almost always see instruments like the trumpet, guitar, and various other tropical instruments in those videos. They are almost always in studios or on a beach somewhere really capturing that jovial aspect. The clothes are flashy and look like a million bucks. This is going to take a lot of creativity but by the spirit of Celia Cruz. We will get it done.  SI SE PUEDE!!!

Here is a picture of Celia Cruz in 1957



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