Gag - Lara M. Schwartz

Another type of music video according to Lara M. Schwartz is a gag music video. This form of music video relies on visual tricks which can be shot live. An example would be is if a band or singer uses a lookalike doll to preform their song, or use make up and prosthetics to alter the look of the artist or actor for the video. These effect can also be applied postproduction to maybe morph the artist or actors features such as giving them an abnormal size eyes or tongue, this can also be used for the location so the it can be set somewhere we cant film in real life such as in space.

One example of this can be Ludacris "Get Back" directed by Spike Jonze:

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