- 1864 was the first illustrated song; someone took photos and put them in sync with the song on screen.
- Michael Jackson's "Scream" costed over $7 million.
- Some performers would project images onto a screen as the song was played live; these images would reflect the themes and emotions of the song.
- The 1930's era was very musical based.
- The 1960's were very rock & roll and television dominant.
- Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is deemed one of the first music videos (made in 1965).
- The Beatles created a mockumentary called "A Hard Day's Night"
- "A Ticket To Ride" has musical notes appear on screen on the same beat.
- "Hide Your Love Away" zooms in on Lennon on the chorus.
- In the 1970's, music videos benefited from the flood of new film makers coming out of school.
- "Life on Mars" pans down onto Bowie.
- "Bohemian Rhapsody" focuses on all of the band.
- In the 1980's, MTV was established to show case music videos.
- "Material Girl" opens like a film, and the costumes, set and characters are taken from Marilyn Monroe's "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend".
- MTV made music videos big business.
- Duran Duran and George Michael flew around the world to record the music videos for "Rio" and "Freedom", respectively.
- With film size budgets it's not shock that film directors establish in music videos first.
- OK Go's "A Million Ways" was filmed in one of the members' back garden and costed an incredibly low budget, however got over 9 million downloads.
- Performance - features the band performing to a crowd of fans.
- Narrative - presents a sequence of events.
- Conceptual - relies on a poetic form, primarily a metaphor.
- Music videos are used to promote the song and promote the artist/band.
- The first video to be banned on MTV was "Body Language" by Queen, due to homoerotic undertones, lack of clothing and amount of sweat.
- "Smack My Bitch Up" was banned because of references to drugs and sex.
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