Research: History Of Music Videos - Ms Begum

History Of Music Videos:

Introduction:
Our generation now have come a long way from the first music video made. With the history of the music video it only consisted of motion picture. However over time and the development of the technology that we have now the music video have become so much more clearer. As for the technology used we can now express some things through a technological way toward the audience, with this the artists have now been able to create a larger fan based due to this, and show off the music video through many more different plat froms apart from music video channels. 

1929: 
Songs and Moving images
Bessie appeared in a two - real short film called Saint Louis Blues

1920 - 1940:  

Walt Disney released fantasia, animated film based around famous pieces of classical music

1956: 
Tony Bennett is filmed walking in Hyde Park London for his song "stranger in paradise" Bennett claims he made the first music video which can be argued.

1964: 
This video is arguably set out the basic visual vocabulary of todays music videos, influencing a vast number of contemporary musicians at the time to create similar moving images to accompany their music.


1966-1968: 
The Monkees was a TV show, each episode included a specially made film segment that was created to accompany their songs that was used in their TV series

1966: 
Top of the pops was born, the importance of TOTP to promote a single meant that artist had to create competitive videos to compete for air time as TOTP had a limit of the numbers of videos  it showed, as it was mainly based.

1967: 
These videos used techniques borrowed from film, such as film effects, dramatic lighting, camera angles and rhythmic. The Beetles "Penny Lane" 

1975:
Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody" created to replace a live TV performance

1970 - 1980:
Key development of the modren music video recording with the editing process. And the improvement in the editing of the videos such as "The Jacksons", this is due to the high budget that they have to create the best music video that they could at that time. 

1981: 
MTV is lunched and the first music video that was released, and that was aired is buggles "video killed the radio star" 
Early mid 1980s, artist started to use more sophisticated effects in their music videos. And they also added story lines or a plot to the music video. 

1984: 
Michael Jackson's Music Video "Thriller" has taken music videos to a another level. 
This was basically a short film, but yet still a music video and has a beginning, middle and end. Michael Jacksons "Thriller" took the music format to another level within the music industry. 

1980s:
MTV & Musical Success

- Grew to play a central part in popular music videos and marketing them. 
-  Madonna had a great deal of her own success of the skilful construction and seductive appealing music videos made.
- MTV has a start of the "Golden Era" a new artform in the popular culture, this has caused a death in the musical artists because physical appeal is now critical to popularity to an unprecedented degree. 

Conclusion: 
With this research on the history of the music videos, has given me some in sight and the experience of what it was like back in the beginning of the music video times. This has been helpful and beneficial to me as it allows me to get the understanding of the music videos. With this history and i would be able to create my music video with the tips of the past and the understanding of the history of it.