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Jamie Robinson
History of the Music Video
1900's
1900’s
Thomas Edison invented the gramophone, which was the first way for music to be recorded and played back via vinyl. This gave people the freedom to listen to music anywhere without it being live.
Oskar Fischinger
He was an abstract animator who in the period from 1900’s to the 1950’s started to do synchronisation of shapes and colours to music. This was made possible through the development of recorded music. This was regarded at the first music video as it had visual elements to audio.
1927- The Jazz Singer
In the 1927 a film called “The Jazz Singer” was released, this was a ground breaking change in the film industry as it was the film to have visual and dialog synchronised. Up until this point there had only been silent films with no dialog and audio apart from a few which had the compliment of a piano. People regard this point in history as the down fall of the silent film as films continued to develop and have visual, audio and dialog.
1940 to 1960
During this time the item called “soundies” started to develop and become popular, it contained a 3 minute video which contained audio but also a performance or visual elements synchronised up to it. In the 21st century a DVD would be the equivalent to it. This was then played in a machine called a “panorama” which played the audio out loud and displayed to visual elements on the screen, this would the equivalent to a dvd play and TV in the 21st century.
1950's
1957- Jail House Rock
The film Jail House Rock was released staring Elvis Presley as the main role and singer. It was the next step in the film industry to have a film with dialogue and audio synchrnaised up to a full movie and it was also the development of the methods of filming as it was the first film to be filmed using the 35mm anamorphic lens by Panasonic.
1960's
1963- Summer Holiday
Summer holiday Starring Cliff Richard was released on the 10th January 1963 in London on the west at the Warner theatre. It was then released over a year later later in the US on the 12th march 1964 it was directed by Peter Yates and music was composed by Stanley Black. It was a very popular film and did very well in the UK but not as good in the US
1964- A Hard Day’s Night
At the height of their time the Beatles release a film called A Hard Day's Night on the 6th July 1964. They had a budget of $189,000 and made on box office taking a substantial amount of $12,299,668. All the songs throughout the film where done by John Lennon and Paul MCCartney.
1964- The House of The Rising Sun
The House of The Rising Sun is a traditional folk song, the most succeful version of it was recorded in 1964 by the British Rock Group the Animals. It was number 1 is the Uk and USA and was considered the “first folk-rock hit”
1964- The House of The Rising Sun
The House of The Rising Sun is a traditional folk song, the most succeful version of it was recorded in 1964 by the British Rock Group the Animals. It was number 1 is the Uk and USA and was considered the “first folk-rock hit”
1967- Peny Lane
Peny Lane was written by the Beatles and used in a promotional video for Peny Lane, the promotional video was not actually shot in Peny Lane but in different places around London. The track was realised in the 13th February 1967 and then a few days later it was released in the US on the 17th Febuary 1967. The promotional video was classed as the first official music video.
1970's
1975- Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody was written by Freddie Mercury and performed by Queen, it was recorded from August- September 1975. It was written for the groups studio album “ A night at the opera” which was released in November 1975. It took 4 hours to record at a cost of $4,500, the song length was 5 minutes and 57 seconds and people belived that it would never become a hit, however it currently stands as 3rd bets selling single of all time.
1980's
1980- Ashes to Ashes
Ashes to Ashes was written by David Bowie, it was released on the 8th August 1980. It was remembered as the first video to cost $500,000 to make. The video was also iconic for its use of solarised colour and black & white effects, alongside it’s budget is what made it a outstanding video and one which changed the development of music videos.
1981- Killed the Radio Star by Buggles.
The song was first released in 1979 but what made it special was in 1981 it was the first music video to be aired on MTV in the US. It was also used again in 2010 in the Uk to mark the launch of MTV classic in the UK.
1982- Pink Floyd
Plink Floyd created a film based around there 1979 album called “The Wall”. It follows the story of the album using all the tracks apart from 2. The film includes the ionic song Another Brick in The Wall (part 2), it conatins the famous imagery of the marching hammers.
1983- Thriller
In 1983 Michael Jackson made a video which contain his song “Thriller”, it was an outstanding14 minutes long. The Thriller song was It was a video which became famous for the successfulness of merging music and filmmaking. The music video reportedly cost $500,000 to make, and made the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records for being the most successful music video, selling over 9,000,000 copies.
1995- The Most expensive Music Video
The most exspensive music video of all time to make was in 1995 as song called Scream by Michale Jackson and Janet Kackson. The production cost for the whole video Cost $7,000,000.
1990's
2000's
2012- The most Viewed Music Video
In 2005 the viewing platform for media content “youtube” was created, it allowed people to use the internet to watch any types of media content which people uploaded ranging from music videos to news reports, or media that individual people upload. People can watch video as much as they want and share them across all different places which can allow videos to go viral. For example PSY Gangnam Style currently has 2578 million views on youtube making it the most viewed video of all time to this current day.