Wednesday 12 July 2017

History Of Music Videos

Early years of music video
Music videos have been around since 1920s where Jazz music was very popular, artists such as Bessie Smith designed short videos to accompany her songs; the lack of technology shows as it consists on one long takes.

One of the first credited music videos was made by Bob Dylan in 1965 with Subterranean Homesick Blues as a segment for D.A Pennebakers film 'Don't look back'.


Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen was released in 1975 along with the music video, both the song and video were extremely credited. Queen marked the beginning of the video era and set the language for modern music video, the music video was considered to be the first to successfully use visual effects within their video.


Fatboy Slim 'Praise You' is an example of a home video style music video with no cuts.



Most dance videos don't feature the artist in, Wiley's 'Money In My Pocket' is an example of a one take video where the artist is not featured.  One take videos can be difficult to film as everything has to be precise and on time, if something goes wrong the take will have to be redone completely.


Wiley - 'Cash In My Pocket' from Ben Moulden on Vimeo.


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Evaluation Question 4

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?