History Of Music Videos

 

 From this task i learnt about the way music videos were born and how they evolved over the last half century. I now know that before the 1960s music videos were almost exclusively performance based and this never added much to the message of the song. I've learnt about how the plot line in a music video developed along with the creativity of new musical directors. One of the most famous videos Thriller directed by John Landis showed the enormity that music videos were becoming as this director had made many famous films such as Beverly Hills Cop 3. I also now know that the first place music videos were able to reach a mainstream audience was on MTV in 1981. Many videos were aired there for the first time to reach large television audience. Television was becoming a proliferating form of media so consumption on music videos became high very quickly. The success and popularity of the music video has also been down to the high budgets given to certain directors. Scream by Michael and Janet Jackson was given a 10.7 million dollar budget amplifying its success.