Thursday, 13 June 2013

How Music Videos Have Changed Over Time

Music Video's have changed throughout the years from around the 1970's to recent times now. They started off as a short video showing the performance or story behind the song. For example in 1979 The Buggles' video for 'Video Killed The Radio Star' portrays how future technology is changing. The early music videos were simple, this could be due to a small budget or lack in experience of making the music videos themselves.

However, in 1981 MTV was established and this was when the productions really took off. The budgets soared and music videos became popular due to whole stations dedicated to just music. An example of an 80's music video is Eurhythmics music video for 'Sweet Dreams'. This uses different conventions than before, as it uses actual video in it's setting. An example from the 90's is Björk's video for 'It's Oh So Quiet', which focuses in on one character, being Björk.


Now a days, music videos are all different. They can contain CGI, animation and even just be simple. Everything has been done. A weird video from recent times is Lady Gaga's video 'Pokerface'. 

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