1. The timeline of events:
Music Video , Hip- Hop, Posters and Cd Covers

2. The foundation of Music video
Definition: A music video is... “a videotaped performance of a recorded popular song, usually accompanied by dancing and visual images interpreting the lyrics. Usually three to five minutes long, music videos typically feature quick cuts, computer graphics, and fanciful or erotic imagery.”
Like many today, we live in a world where we consume various media technologies in order to feel satisfied. Music videos can be dated in existence since 1894, and has developed to not only be a powerful mechanism for the use of persuasion, but also used for satisfaction.
Through different technologies, we can now find a number of ways to find songs and videos.

3. Music Video:1894
The first music video was first published by Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern, who had hired electrician George Thomas and some performers to promote the sales of their company through a theme song called “The Little Lost Child”. By using a magic lantern (a 17th century projector), Thomas was able to project a sequence of still images on a screen. This then became a hit sensation and was used mainly from the late 1920’s for short entertainment purposes such as short musical that lasted 6 minutes.

4. The timeline of events: hip-hop
Definition: Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African- American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York. It comprehends 4 main pillars of the Hip-Hop culture. These are; MC, DJ, Beatboxing and graffiti writing. Its emergence with disc jockeys created rhythmic beats by looping the breaks, which later became known as rap. It’s music has also got an influence on dance style, creating a fashion of street dance, jerking, break dancing e.t.c.
Here is a youtube video identifying the timeline of hop- hop

5. 1970’s- 1980’s
1970‘s- Hip- hop originally started of without vocals, where the DJ used an audio mixer and two records to ‘scratch the records, which extended the song. During this era R’n’B was known as Rhythm and Blues, which incorporated a touch of jazz, soul, blues, disco, fast beats and a techno. Popular artists during the 1970’s were James Brown, DJ Hollywood, DJ Afrika Bambaataa.
1980‘s - The genre developed using diverse and complex styles such as funky house, rap vocals, variety of beat mixes, scratching using wax and heavy techno (in recording). Its focus, relied less on the music and more on the ra. However both were balanced out. Dj’s then started using Popular artists during this time frame were: Run DMC and the ‘Funky 4 Plus One’ who were the first to appear on national television (14th February 1982).

6. 1990’s-2011
1990’s- During this era, hip-hop had grown internationally significantly. Becoming one of the popular genres listened to. Rather than being just ‘funky’ dance songs, hip hop had developed to tell stories on contemporary issues. Artist such as The Notorious B.I.G, Busta Rhymes and 2Pac, were very popular in the early 1990’s. Again the style for this music genre started to focus more on the rap as well as fixing their sounds with loud bass, in order to give it a much ‘harder beat’. Hip-hop became authentically recognized through rap from this era onwards. Due to its increasing popularity, hip- hop had caused great influences on television shows introducing Fresh Prince featuring Will Smith who later on became a hip hop raper during his acting career.
During the late 1990’s artist revived the focus of vocals by re-introducing more vocal artists, mainly females and groups. Destiny’s Childs, Cherish, Mario, Lauryn Hill, Ashanti, B2K etc. However further more rapers became known during this period too. Eminem, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, P Diddy (aka puff Daddy) are all examples.
Over the next 20 years, more and more artist became known

8. Timeline of events: CD Cover
Definition:

9. Timeline of events: Posters
Definition of a poster:
How did it start off:

10. Inspiration

11. Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music