Key points from "The Kindest cut: functions and meanings of music video editing."

1. "the editing seems to have a rhythmic basis closely connected to the song."

2. "Music video's disjunctive editing keeps us within ever-changing surface of the song."

3. "graphic match" "Such an edit joins two shots through shared compositional elements such as colour or shape."

4. "Low-angle shots are used more extensively in music videos, partly because they reproduce the relations among audience, performer and stage."

5. "This edit might contain a roughened edge (say, a bit of film leader and a white flash sandwiched between the shots) that makes it work like a jump-cut"

6. "Music videos and Hollywood films share a basic premise: that visual information can be communicated by cutting between three kinds of shot - long, medium and close up."

7. "Camera movement in music video also differs from that of film. Most music videos make such extensive use of the dolly that a static shot seems anomalous."

8. "Music video image is relatively discontinuous. Time unfolds unpredictably and without clear reference points."

9."Showcasing the star"