History of Music

This was one of the earlier music videos where the artist performed one of her songs in a very dramatic way. The video was in black and white as colour had not been invented yet. But these were more like short films.

In the late 1950s the scopitone a visual jukebox was invented in France and many french artists produced videos this is one of them. Which was recorded in 1959 all you see is the singer and other people in the background and all you see is  him singing.

In 1964, The Beatles starred in their first feature film A Hard Day's Night. Shot in black-and-white and presented as a mock documentary, it was a loosely structured musical fantasia interspersing comedic and dialogue sequences with musical ones. The quality was poor but this was the one of the first videos that had other people in it and not just the band.

This was released in 1975 was filmed in colour but it's just the band on performing and doesn't really have any else just that it's in colour. The bang Abba was iconic in the 70's and this video was major.

This has to be one of the most famous and innovate videos to date as this was the new benchmark for music videos and the videos which followed after would be more like this then any other. This was released in 1981on MTV and was very iconic in the 80's.

In 1983, the most successful and influential music video of all time was released — the nearly 14-minute-long video for Michael Jackson's song "Thriller". This video was so famous and successful it cost a lot to make but made a lot of money. This was one of the first music videos to have a structured dance routine to it.

This was the start of trend of dances from music videos and this was iconic as it started a crazy around the global as people would be doing the dance.

This was the most expensive music video ever and cost around $7 million to make. It was released in 1995 by two very famous singers. 

During this period, MTV launched channels around the world to show music videos produced in each local market.

This is a more recent dance video which also started a craze but this dance has become the successful dance in history as lots of people stared doing it. it was released on may 2 in 2007 and has since be recognised as one of the most successful videos of all time.

I choose this video because it shows how cartoons and animation can be Incorporated in to music videos and shows great contrast between the real world and the animation world.

Music have become so easy to make now that everyone and anyone can do it all you need is a video camera and Internet and music videos has become more and more common and easy to make.