3. Pop Music Video: Forms andConventions A music video is a videotaped performance of a recorded popular song. It is usually accompanied by dance or a fragmentary story. Music videos often use concert footage. Queen โ Bohemian Rhapsody.
4. Pop Music Video: Forms andConventions Typically music videos are three to five minutes long, they frequently include quick cuts, stylisations, fanciful and often erotic imagery, and computer graphics. Abba โ Knowing Me Knowing You
5. Pop Music Video: Forms andConventions Music videos can accommodate all styles of filmmaking, including animation, live action films, documentaries, and non-narrative, abstract film. Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues.
6. Pop Music Video: Forms andConventions In the 1980s the music video became synonymous with the rock idiom and for this reason they are often referred to as rock videos. U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name Foo Fighters - Pretender
8. Pop Music Video:Institutions Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Kings of Leon โ Sex on Fire Dizzy Rascal โ Dance Wiv Me
9. Pop Music Video:Institutions The proliferation of music video came in the 1980s, when MTV (Music Television)'s format was based around them. The first video show in 1981 wasโฆ Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
10. Pop Music Video:Institutions For this reason the success of the music video is synonymous with the second British invasion of the American charts in the mid 1980s. Duran Duran โ Rio Eurythmics โ Sweet Dreams Wham! โ Club Tropicana!
11. Pop Music Video:Institutions Although the origins go back much further to music television programs like Top of the Pops (UK), Ready Steady Go (UK), American Bandstand (US) and Musikladen (D). The Beatles โ All You Need is Love TOTP Dusty Springfield โ You Donโt Have To Say You Love Me TOTP
12. Pop Music Video:Institutions By the end of the Sixties, when bands could not make it to a TV studio to perform, record companies often provided TV producers with a short film clip to promote their latest single. The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever.
13. Pop Music Video:Institutions By the 1990s many hundreds of videos, representing a cross-section of musical forms were being produced yearly. Genres include traditional to Country and Western, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Hip Hop, r+b, Adult Orientated Rock, Teen Pop etc. Guns n Roses - November RainKris Kross - Jump
15. Pop Music Video:Audiences A common misconception is that pop music videos are aimed strictly at teen audiences. Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan and the music produced by Stock, Aitkin and Waterman are classic examples of performers aimed at teenagers.
16. Pop Music Video:Audiences Many videos of โsoft rockโ songs have traditionally been directed at an older group of viewers. Bon Jovi โ In These Arms. Stevie Nicks โ Sometimes Itโs A Bitch Cher โ Heart of Stone How do these video appeal to an older audience?
17. Pop Music Video:Institutions Since shortly after their inception, the style and content of music videos have strongly influenced advertising, television, film, and popular culture as a whole. The Clash โ Should I Stay or Should I Go (Leviโs Advert)? Bryan Adams โ Everything I Do I Do It For You (Robin Hood) Whitney Houston โ I Will Always Love You (The Bodyguard)
18. Pop Music Video:Audiences Digital TV Channels means that music videos are targeted at niche audiences.
22. Pop Music Video:Audiences On the internet sites like www.myspace.com have enabled unsigned bands like the Arctic Monkeys to find mainstream success in part by providing an outlet for new music videos.
23. Pop Music Video:Audiences You Tube is a forum for online bands to show DIY video footage. The Foo Fighters โ Live in Norway on Mobile Phone
24. Pop Music Video:Audiences Fans can also post archive clips from TV showsโฆ Bucks Fizz โ Making Your Mind Up.
25. Pop Music Video:Audiences As well as professional music videos from established artists. Madonna โ Hung Up
29. Pop Music Video:Representations Many examples of the genre feature the macho rock stars. The Cult โ Sweet Soul Sister Guns and Roses โ Sweet Child of Mine
30. Pop Music Video:Representations Scantily clad dancers have become cultural clichรฉsโฆ Robert Palmer โ Addicted to Love Aerosmith โ Love in an Elevator
31. Pop Music Video:Representations Certain music videos, however, are notable for their cutting-edge techniques and artistic innovations. As time passes those techniques can look dated. Dire Straits โ Money For Nothing Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
32. Pop Music Video:Representations Race: in the early days of MTV in America black artists were not featuredโฆ until Michael Jacksonโs high budget Thriller. Michael Jackson - Thriller
33. Pop Music Video:Representations Gender is another key issue. Successful female rock stars have both lived up to and parodied male fantasies Blondie โ Detroit 442 Donna Summer โ I Feel Love Kate Bush โ Wuthering Heights
34. Pop Music Video:Representations Jonas Akerlund smashing pumpkins, iggy pop, madonna, cardigans, metallica, blondie, primal scream, jamiroquia, rammstein, blink 182, janโes addiction. Many directors now train to become music video makers and it is often considered to be an โauteurs mediumโ with particular directors having specific styles of mise-en-scรจne, camerawork, editing etc. The Cardigans โ Favourite GameBlink 182 โ I Miss You
35. Pop Music Video:Representations Interestingly Jonas Akerlund is also in high demand as the director of television advertisements for leading brands. Jonas Akerlund
36. Pop Music Video:Representations From an institutional perspective audience/user generated content has transformed the forms and conventions of music video introducing a more DIY aesthetic. Has the music video come full circle? OK Go โ Here It Goes Again Moby and Deborah Harry โ New York New York