Visions of Reality

When watching a music video it is important to remember that what you're seeing isn't always exactly what your hearing. For example, it's possible that the drummer you hear is not the one that appears on screen. This is one way that the reality of music videos can be warped in order to provide a different perspective or to change how it is interpreted. By changing the reality of a video, the producer can bring a new level of depth into the experience that might allow for a better quality of video from the viewers perspective. This idea is expressed in a quote from Kevin Williams book, "Why I Still Want My MTV" "As the music video transforms the televisual presentation of music, it also transforms the performer and the performance of the music."(p. 155) The act of putting the music into a video that uses visuals to reinforce the audio somehow transcends reality and manages to fuse the music and visuals together in the mind of the viewer.