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History of Music Videos..1998-2015:

The History of Music Videos..Music videos are often called promotion videos or even Promos due to the fact that they are Promotional devices. In the 1980s the term Rock Video was often used to describe this type of entertainment, even though it has fallen out of use.The earliest music video Promos was made in 1950s, however, before then in 1920s, films by animators such as Oskar Fischinger were accompanied by music scored labelled Visual music.In 1984, music publishers Edward B Marks and Joe Stern hired George Thomas the electrician and various other performers to promote the sales of their song The Little Lost Child. Using a magic lantern, Thomas projected a series of still images on a screen simultaneous to live performances. This would become a popular form of entertainment known as the illustrated song, the first step towards music videos.

Rock!1998:Foo Fighters-My hero:2015:You me at six-Room to Breathe:Similarities:Party animal figure.Always incorporate the band/singer playing live.Head banging. Close ups on instruments.Tense facial expression, matches with the lyrics.

Differences:More subtle colours (black and white)Quite a normal video, subtle camera work, however it has some special affects but not too much that it over does it, just enough to look affective.Filmed at a concert (their concert) and theres also a few clips in a simple white room singing, with extreme close ups of the singers face and lips.Big hair (quiff), less simple clothes, more leather jackets, expected to see this fashion sense in the 1998 video and the fashion sense from the 1998 video in this one. Very un stereotypical. Differences:Smoke.Camera editing has no special affects in the video, no warped or spiny affects, just like everyday life.Video of a story behind it, about a family struggling.Filmed in a normal house with family pictures etc.. Long sweepy hair, simple clothes (jeans and a t-shirt).Pan shots of the area they are in, shows smoke affects and normality of everyday lives.1998, at home. 2015, at a concert. Different but also similar that it shows the singers everyday lives and popularity.

Pop!1998:Madonna-Ray of light:2015:Ariana Grande- Problem:Differences:Madonnas tummy out but still fully clothed (more respectful)Men in the video seem to have a lot more respect for the women, more gentlemanly. Women subtle and not much make up.Subtle every day colours, sky blue, blacks, whites etc.. Men fully clothed.Shows videos of every life, people going to work, school etc.. Business people, cab drivers, things you see everyday.

Differences:Singers and dancers half naked, sexual clothes, have a lot of main body parts out, lots of flesh showing.Men seem quite disrespectful towards the women, dancing all over them.Women lots of make up and big backcombed hair.Very bright colours.Men half naked also, showing off their bodies.Video is very acted, doesnt show everyday life, shows how their life is constantly in a music studio.Similarities:Special affects, lots of spinning in both videos, warped and the speed has been sped up to look like every day life, indicating how fast life goes by. Neither of the videos really link into the lyrics, seem quite abstract and random. Shows the main singers quite a lot, mainly dancing.

R&B!1998:2015:Four five seconds- Rihanna:Half on a baby- R Kelly:Differences: Music video is more of a story like video, lots of special affects.Shows the male in a mansion, indicating that he is rich.A lot of above the head shots.Always has his belly out, shows a lot of flesh.No group shots, as its only himself in the video.Lots of wide shots, shows majority of the room, showing hes in a big mansion lonely, reflects on the song.Differences:Very simple video, everything is black and white.Rihanna, Paul McCartney and Kanye West are all dressed in denim.Fully clothed at all times, fully denim, however you can see quite a bit of Rihannas chest.Group shots of the three singers.Camera doesnt really go anywhere, just shows them in a white room, nothing more.Similarities:Lots of close up shots of faces.Some parts of both videos show very special but simple affects.Some aspects of black and white in the first video and the whole of the second is black and white.Not many dance moves on either of the videos mostly just shows them wandering about.

Mise-en-scene: both very simple lighting, whites, light blues etc.. Also shows the singers wearing very simple things, first video all he wears is white clothing and in the second video all they wear is denim clothing.

Hip Hop!1998:2015:Its all about me- Mya:All eyes on you: Meek Mill Ft. Nicki Minaj & Chris BrownDifferences:Girls drooling all over the man.Boy runs after the girl in this video, doing her hair and make up etc.. Making her food. Mise-en-scene: lighting looks quite dark in this video, and the female is wearing bright red clothing and bright red lipstick, the lighting in this video helps to emphasis the shape of the female and her dance moves.This video have a lot of dance routines from both sex.Similarities:Women in both videos have hardly any clothes on, revealing a lot of skin. In both videos both females are dancing quite sexually, seems like they havent got much respect for themselves.Both videos also have lots of close up particularly on the females bodies . Differences:Women dont necessarily have more respect for themselves than in the first video, but have slightly better in the way that they dont drool over the men in the second video.However, in the second video the woman is looking after the man.In this video the Mise-en-scene; lighting is very simple, very light colours However, this video hasnt got any dance routines and mostly just shows them standing around drinking or their sexual relationship.Again, lots of wide shots from both videos to show how much money they have and showing the big house that theyre living in.Shows alcohol in both videos.And also a lot of Voyeurism in both videos.