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Tuesday 10 September 2013

10 Facts about Music Video History

What is a music video?
Used as a short film to intergrate the written song or sound by imagery and published for promotional reasons to market the artist and recordings.
History
During the early 20th century where talkies, soundies and shorts helped produce music video. Musicals were a start up to music videos and inspires present music videos and videos in history. Music videos were known as promotional clips for big artists in the 1950-60's
Fact 1.
Michael Jackson is one of the most popular icons in music video history as his videos were used to promote his recordings. Music videos such as 'thriller' 'beat it ' and 'billie jean' were famous narrative visuals.
Fact 2.
In 1929 Bessie Smith was filmed singing a hit song called Louis Saint Blues which in those days was known as a short two-reel film.
Fact 3.
In the 1950s and 60's promotional clips were inspired by this times' musical films. Srars began to imitate scenes of a musical and implant them in their vudeis with a twist. For example Michael Jacksons 'Bad' taken from West  Side Story musical and Madonna's Material Girl imitated the 'Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend' scene in Gentlemen prefer Blondes'
Fact 4.
Walt Disney had cartoon films that had classical ambient sounds during the film
Fact 5.
MTV UK & Ireland was launched oonky in July 1997
Fact 6.
MTV is an American based channel and first launched in 1981 in the USA
Fact 7.
1974 was the beginning of music television
Fact 8.
MTV VMA's was anounced to awarded mainstream artists for their music video and also awarded director's

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