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History of music videos

History of music videos

What is a music video?

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a piece of music or song. Modern music videos are normally used a marketing device.

Early music videos

The first actual music videos or 'promos' were filmed in the mid 1950's, however before then as early as the 1920's, but these were labeled as visual music rather then a 'music video' or 'promos.'

An example of an early music video is 'St Louis Blues - Bessie smiths/ 1929. Blues singer 'Bessie smith' appeared in a two reel short film called St Louis Blues.

In 1940 Walt Disney released 'Fantasia' an animated short film based around a piece of classical music.
The first actual music videos or 'promos' were filmed in the mid 1950's, however before then as early as the 1920's, but these were labeled as visual music rather then a 'music video' or 'promos.'

1950-1960 development

in 1956 'Tony Bennett' was filmed walking along the serpentine in Hyde park as his song 'Stranger in paradise' played. This film was played by Uk and US television stations, leading 'Bennett to claim he made the first actual music video or 'promo.'

The defining work of the modern music video was the Beatles first major motion picture 'A hard days night' 1964. The musical segments in this music video arguably set out the basic visual vocabulary of todays music videos.

Goodwin theory- Miley Cyrus- Wrecking ball

Goodwin music video theory-Miley Cyrus- Wrecking ball 

. So number one on Goodwin's theory is that music videos demonstrate genre characteristics and this is shown with this music video. Firstly this is a pop song and it shows the character singing the song within the video. Furthermore the woman ( Miley Cyrus ) is sexualised in the video which is also a characteristic of pop music.

. Number two would be relationship between lyrics and visuals. Throughout the song this is blatantly shown when the chorus is 'you came in like a wrecking ball' and she's swinging on a wrecking ball. Also another time when this is shown is when she says 'All I wanted was to break your walls' Which is referring to love and she is breaking down a wall.

. Number three is relationship between music and visuals. This is again applied to this video when the cuts in the video are in time with the drop on the chorus. And also the setting of the video being in an all white room with a broken wall and a hammer and wrecking ball.

. Number four the demand of labels wanting lots of close ups of the artists face and that the artist may develop motifs across there work. This is applied throughout the video as there is loads of close ups of Miley Cyrus and the first twenty seconds of the video is one long take of her face and her singing. In addition to this a motif of Miley Cyrus would be her licking the Hammer because it sort of represents her personality as she's wild and crazy.

. Number five is where there is a frequent notion of looking and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body. This is applied in the Wrecking Ball music video as the singer ( Miley Cyrus ) is half naked throughout the video wearing just underwear, and through certain clips she is fully naked swinging on the wrecking ball. So this is most likely aimed at male viewers to draw attention as she is naked.

. Number six is intertextual references between TV shows, Films etc. However this music video doesn't have any.