History of the Music Video

·         Advances in technology have transformed the music video into what it is today.

·         Music videos have been around since the 1920s, as short films. i.e. Bessie Smith.

·         1965 - Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues, segment in the film ‘Don’t Look Back’ – widely known as the first modern music video.

 

 

·         1970s – TV Programmes, promoting artists.

 

·         1975 – Bohemian Rhapsody, ground-breaking video, starting the music video era. One of the first to use advanced video effects.

 

 

·         Camerawork –

o   How the camera is used and how images are sequenced.

o   Close ups dominate – typical convention.

·         Editing

o   Editing establishes mood.

o   Digital effects

·         Development in Technical Codes

o   Fast cut montage

o   Multiple viewing

o   Effects

o    Non-representational

o   Lack of edits, long take/steadicam.

·         By the mid-1980s releasing a music video along with a track was normal.