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1. History of Music Videos
By Fabiha Ferdous

2. What is a music video?
• A music video/song is a short film mixing a
song and imagery, produced for promotional
or artistic purpose.

3. • in 1894, sheet music Publishers Edward B. Marks
and Joe Stern hired an electrician, George
Thomas and numerous performers to promote
sales of their song ‘The little lost child’
• Thomas projected a series of still images on
screen simultaniously to live performance.
• This was developed in the 17th Century and
commonly used for educational purposes
• This became a really popular form of
entertainment and was the first step towards usic
videos.

4. Bessie Smith- St. Louis Blues
• This is one of the earliest examples of music
videos that we are familiar with today. It was
shown in theatres in 1932.

5. Tony Bennett
• Released in 1956
• ‘Strangers In Paradise’
• This was filmed in Hyde Park, in London and across
the UK and US television stations.
• This was the first example of using music videos on
TV, this would lead on to create channels like MTV
and Top of the Pops

6. Chroma-Key
• A special effect for compromising two images
or video streams together based on colour
hues.
• This technique was a huge step for the music
industry. This was used mostly in videogames
and newscasting

7. MTV
• Michael Jackson- Thriller
• this was released in 1982
• This type of music video has a plot as there is
narrative, almost like a ‘mini movie’
• it contains sophisticated visuals and it took the
music industry to a whole other level.
• After this music videos made high budget
productions

8. Britney Spears- Rise of the Directors
• Britney Spears- Sometimes
• this was released in 199
• Music videos meets the expectations of the pop
genre and makes it appealing to mainstream society,
this was mainly targetted at young females through
thr mis en scene

9. Iggy Azalea
• In the current music video era that we live in today.
• the ‘sex appeal’ of females has been dominated in
the music industry.
• Music videos are now very easy to access through
numerous ways such as TV channels, social network,
websites and phone apps