Research: History of music videos.

History of Music Video

Music videos:
As the years have past by music videos have changed greatly over the year and got better and better and more technological. Once video were just a add on to a song but now they are part of what makes a song a succes they used to be very short and cheap but now most are around 4 minutes with a high budget. Music videos appeal to everyone in the stars target audinence and are mostly made for the fans to satisfy them they are mad to cause a buzz a to promote the audience to give them a wider audience. 

Music history Timeline:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/interactive/2011/jun/11/history-modern-music-timeline

This is a interactive timeline of the history of music videos.
My timeline with key/significant dates and achievements:

  1920: 

The key events in  the history of music videos.

• 1920- when Bessie Smith the video can not regarded as a music video as it has no editing and doesnt follow the conventions of music videos.

•  During 1920  film were accompanied  by the moving image, especially animations.

1940:

• 1940- Disney  'fantasia ' was animation film  about classical music.

 1950:

• Tony Bennett -1956  was filmed walking in  Hyde park London for 'stranger in paradise' it was aired on English and American TV.

1960:

• 1964-The Beatles set out basic visual vocal for todays  music videos. A simple motion picture accompanied by music.

• 1966-TOTP- Artist had to create competitive videos to complete for air time on TOTP. But the show mostly performance based.

• 1968- 'The Monkee's had their own TV show and a special segment that was made to accompany their song.

1970:

• 1975- Queen 'Bohemian Rhapsody' set up modern music video era. They mad the first music video that they used to replace a live performance. It was made specifically for the song to be played on TV.

• 1970-1980 Music videos became the norm and every artist had a video to accompany their song. It was qucik and easy and made artists get populer quickly.

1980: 

•  In 1981 MTV launched the first video to be aired and this was Buggle's 'video 'killed radio star.

Change of music videos over time:
Music have changed a lot as history of music video has gone on. Music videos are now a esential part of artists succes. As time has gone on more and more is expected from music videos quality of them has to be great now compared to the first queen music vidoe. All genres have different types of music videos that will appeal to their audience. And lasltly now technology has advanced a lot more technology and affects are used to make music videos a lot better.

Conclusion:

This post has made me realise how music videos have changed over time and how they are now very popular and essential and what makes them popular in this day and age.