History of music video's and how they have changed over time?

When music video's first started, it was just the artist or band singing live with images over the top whilst they was singing to show the meaning of the song or images of themselves. This short recordings of music videos started in the 1920's. Then onwards from the 1930's to 1960's, the most popular genre was musicals, and started music video's with songs. The first one was Marilyn Monroe with her video to 'Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend'. This phase of musical interest carried on for a while until the introduction on Rock 'n' Roll when shown on the TV.

The Beatles made films within their time such as A Hard Day’s Night with the director Richard Lester and  their second film Help! which they sang their songs in and helped them to become more popular and gained fans and increased their awareness through the population on the UK and America. A music video was released with the song 'Ticket To Ride' from their second film Help!. This was very popular as it included the two key elements of music video which are performance and narrative. It was also more popular because is was made especially to be sent to the US in order to the Beatles to become popular over there as well as in the UK because they couldn't make television appearances over their easily back then.

It is known by many that the first real music video was Bob Dylan does Subterranean Homesick Blues in 1965. From then on, music video's started from many different artist and bands such as David Bowie's 'Life on Mars' and Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. These music video's were found to be very popular and received many views by their fans and others. All the videos had a narrative along with the song either following it or after, which was the normal conventions of a music video as it is shown like a film and viewers were familiar with the format of this.

 

 

In 1981, Madonna was on MTV, singing her hit 'Material Girl' music video including a narrative before, after and during the song and the song itself, so it had the same concepts of a music video. This was found to become very popular and is now one of Madonna's biggest hits in history as this music video's increased her popularity as it was a hit video on MTV and got a lot of views as people likes the concept she performed.

Michael Jackson received $7 million for his hit music video 'Scream' which was at the high in music videos of its time. This was a very successful video in music video history as it made millions of Dollars for the artist in one music video.


 Michael Jackson started something new in music video's for the future, with his video for his song 'Thriller' because it was as he made it a story for his song and had the scary elements that wasn't yet used. This was in 1983. This music video started artists and bands using their music video's to tell the story of a song and give it meaning, instead of just live performances and images over the top of them singing.