A music video is a short film that accompanies a song, featuring the artist and visually representing the music. While they can tell stories, music videos primarily aim to be memorable and worth repeated viewing. The study session will provide an overview of the origins and evolution of music videos from early experimental films to modern formats and discuss analyzing, pitching, and producing music videos.
2. WHAT IS A MUSIC VIDEO?
• anything you want?
• does have specific conventions
• lasts the length of the song (but sometimes
longer)
• features the artist (but not always)
• can tell a story (but doesn’t have to)
• needs to be visually memorable and worth repeat
viewings
3. a distinctive art form which can allow really
interesting creative opportunities
4. OUTLINE OF THE SESSION
• Pre-history of music video: origins, ‘soundies’
and ‘scopitones’
• Promos of the 60s and 70s
• The rise of MTV
• How to analyse a music video
• Pitch for your own video
• Controversial videos
• New media and other forms of distribution
5. EARLY HISTORY
• Music and moving images have long gone
together
• 1920s and 1930s experimental film
• The musical as a film genre
• The ‘soundies’- early US jukebox
32. BEGINNINGS OF MTV
• Artists began to take need for promo for every
release seriously
• Changes in technology and gap in the cable
market
• Boom in promos in the early 80s
41. MULTI-CHANNEL MUSIC TV
• Growth of genre-based channels
• Black music at last broke into the market
• Other companies set up channels as spin-offs
from other products
• e.g. EMAP: Smash hits, Q etc
42. METHODS OF ANALYSIS
Goodwin’s six points:
• Genre characteristics
• Visuals/Lyrics
• Visuals/Music
• Need to sell artist
• Intertextuality
• Voyeurism
52. METHODS OF ANALYSIS
Goodwin’s six points:
• Genre characteristics
• Visuals/Lyrics
• Visuals/Music
• Need to sell artist
• Intertextuality
• Voyeurism
53. PRACTICE PITCH
Listen to the song
and
come up with some initial ideas for a video.
54. PRACTICE PITCH
Listen to the song
and
come up with some initial ideas for a video.
61. THE PROCESS
• Commissioning editor
• Production companies/directors
• Treatments/pitches
• Budgets
• Where the money goes
• Pre-production and personnel involved
• The shoot
• The edit
• Post-production work and delivery