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History of Music Videos
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Talkies - Musical Short Films
This is the earliest type of music video, a music video being defined as a short film that accompanies music. Talkies was a musical short films that would only include music and sound effects no talking. From a video perspective it was still in very early stages of video production and music video production. -
Tony Bennett - Stranger in Paradise
This was the next step from short films accompanied with music. This was a video that was intentionally made for the song and was a start to music videos being a marketing method for the music. -
Beatles - Promotional Clips
The Beatles started creating short films for their songs such as Day Tripper. These videos acted as a way of marketing the song and is moving towards more what music videos are used for today. -
David Bowie - John Im Only Dancing
This video is very similar to the kind of music videos that are created today. The video was directed by Mick Rock, and the video is David Bowie lip syncing the song while playing a guitar, this was the beginning of a trend of music videos. -
David Bowie - First Video with a budget over $500,000
This music video (Ashes to Ashes) was the first music video to have a budget over $500,000. At this point in time lots of different artists were making music videos for their music and exploring the different ways they could show their music and how they were able to add emotion and atmosphere to the music with the use of video. This was a huge turning point in music videos and showed directors and filmmakers that narratives could be explored in a this new method. -
MTV - Music videos aired on TV
This was the introduction of Music Television. With music videos getting better and bigger with professional directors and high-end film making equipment being used their was huge market for music videos in the video production industry. MTV has taken that opportunity and was a channel that aired the best music videos 24 hours a day. -
Lyric Videos
This was something that was very new and the idea was that people would be able to read or sing the lyrics with the song making the viewer more involved and more understanding of the meaning and emotions presented in the song some of the first lyric songs were: Prince - "Sign o' the Times" - Lyric Video
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YouTube - Introduction
Introduction of YouTube and also the availability of the internet. YouTube started out as mainly having music videos and only later did it become a median for people to post videos of all things. The internet also effected the popularity and accessibility of music videos as almost all people had computers at this point with connections. This brought more money to music video production and also started to see awards such as Grammys for music videos. -
VEVO - Music Video distribution
VEVO is a online music video distributor they have YouTube channels for all popular and current artist and post the music videos that have been created in the past or in the present on these channels a few examples of music videos that had been created in past and VEVO have found the videos and created a network to watch these videos: N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton -
Music Videos Today
Music Videos today have moved along with technology as with camera equipment and the themes and emotions that are expressed in the videos. In recent years sex appeal has been presented a lot in music videos as a way of getting people to watch the videos and listen to the music.
