MUSIC VIDEO TIMELINE. Georgia Wilson.

The phonoscene was a combined chronophone sound recording with a chronograph film shot that created a sound film. They recorded the sound and then the singer lip sings which they synchronized to create the phonoscene. The first Phonoscenes were presented by Léon Gaumont in 1902 in France and the first presentation of a phonoscene took place in Buckingham Palace in 1907 and the last presentation was in

When ‘Talkies’ arrived in 1926 the music industry followed producing ‘Soundies’, which were three-minute musical films, that were played on visual jukeboxes that showed short films to music, mostly showing the singer or band on stage. They were usually found in restaurants and bars. They mostly featured Jazz musicians. They were produced in New York, Chicago and Holly Wood in between 1940’s and 1950’s. They often included short dance sequences. Soundies covered all music, from classical to big- band swing, and so on. In 1958 the Soundies led to the development of the Scopitone which featured colour film

In 1964 a performance clip of the Animals was made House Of The Rising Sun was high-quality color clip and filmed in a studio on a specially-built set; with the group lip-singing. The Beatles starred in their first feature film in 1964 and in 1965 they starred in their second. In 1965 the Beatles began making promotion clips, The Beatles videotaped 10 black and white promotional videos. Other well known bands had the same strategy. Colour promotional clips for "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane", were made in early Making promo clips became the new rage and suddenly all stars were making them, such as: Pink Floyd, The Rolling Stones, The Who and many more.

This was the beginning of music TV. The long-running British TV show Top of the Pops began playing music videos in the late 1970s. Music videos went mainstream when the U.S launched MTV in 198, the first music video played was ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ In 1983, the most successful, influential and iconic music video of all time was released, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, it is almost 13 minutes long and is still very popular today. In 1985 MTV released VH1, then known as Video Hits One, featuring softer music that appealed to an older audience hip hop music gained a mass audience because of the launch of Yo! MTV Raps. MTV began an era of 24-hour-a-day music television.

In 1992 MTV began listing directors with the credits of songs. Big directors changed music videos to show a unique visual style of direction. Two music videos that were directed by Romanek in 1995 were two of the three most expensive music videos of all time. One being Michael and Janet Jackson’s ‘Scream’, which cost $7 million to produce and is still the most expensive music video. Around this time MTV produced channels all around the world to show music videos produced in the local market, such as MTV Latin America in 1993 and MTV India in

Music Videos Today Music videos today are extremely different today, many of them now telling a story, instead of dated music videos where it’s just the artist/s singing on stage. Storylines make the music more interesting, although some are over the top. Since Lady GaGa emerged on the music scene it seems that other artists are trying to match her odd behavior. All music videos are very different depending on there genre, for instance metal music is mostly them preforming on stage with a violent looking crowd, this draws their audience in as it is something they enjoy, going to gigs. Pop music is quite typical for showing people having fun or in some form of lust with someone they can’t be with.

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