What is a music video? A music video is a video with a piece of music behind it. But the videos usually have concepts behind them like a storyline or an animated piece with bright colours. The definition for a music video is a short film with integrates of imagery. A lot of music videos are made with weird and waky ideas behind them. Music videos for some people and artists is away to show there creativity and meaning behind the music. Its also away to do something that no body else has done with short films in music videos. History of music videos 1929: One of the best examples at this time was Bessie Smith-St. Louise Blues. Music was manly used in theatre t this time. 1930: Screen songs were introduced,they were cartoons that encouraged kids to sing along. 1930: The hit Diamonds are a girls best friend came out. 1956: Tony Bennet came out with strangers in paradise, it was played across the UK and US, it was a hit. 1964: The Beatles- A Hard Days Night came out and this was the start of music videos. 1967: A few years later The Beatles came out with another hit and took music videos to the next level. 1970: The 1970s saw a change in music videos and became increasingly popular. 1980: Queen Bohemian brought a brand new style of music. 1981: The introduction to MTV became a thing and they started airing music videos on their. 2005: itune opens, one of the biggest music download platforms ever. 2006: Launch of Youtube, this became one of the main platforms music videos were put. 2010: Youtube reached new heights by having billions of views on music videos. Heres some of my favourite music videos The reason i like this music video by Billie Eilish is because its different and weird. I feel like this music video has a purpose to it, like its trying to tell a story. The reason I like Shawn Mendes music video Treat You Better is because i feel like it has a deep and meaning full story to it. And i feel the story makes people more aware of some peoples realities. What aspects can be in a music video? For music videos really anything can be put in them because the creative side is very open and there is plenty of weird and waky music videos out there as well as simple ones. Creative visual techniques The creative visual techniques that we chose to use are different and unique. The first technique that we chose to use is color splash, which is a technique when the whole picture is in low saturation but then theres one splash of color. We also decided to use a lot of different angles in our music video as it would match with our theme of weird and wacky. One other thing that we decided to add to our music video was a lot of movement and we want the movement to be fast to match with our song. How is social media used to promote music videos? Firstly, it is promoted by musicians and bands by using their own strategy on how to get people to listen to there music. Some musicians and bands put the same picture or video of their work on every social media platform and other artists like to create different content to draw watchers in. Social media is used in plenty of different ways to promote music videos like: Tweets on Twitter Pictures on Instagram Videos on Facebook and there are many other ways of doing it. Also social media is something that in this modern day a lot of people use frequently and if the artist has a lot of people following or subscribing they are most likely to have it pop up in there notifications or feed about what the artist is doing and if it draws the eyes in most people are likely to look at what it is. How many people use Instagram? In one month 1 billion people use Instagram and in 1 day 500 million people use Instagram. This means Instagram is a pretty powerful platform were u can gain followers through any topic. How Musicians promote there music Why I chose to use Instagram?
I chose to use Instagram because its a well used social media platform and it is also my favourite one to use. I also chose to do Instagram because they have a massive growth in people using it. Instagram also has a lot of different things to help you promote your content, like hashtags, tags public or private accounts, it gives you full control over everything your posting.
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What do you expect to see in a music video? Holly: Bright colourful, story that relates to the song Reece: A character, multiple shots Alex: Dancing What type of music do you listen too? Holly: A wide variety etc indie/pop Reece: A wide variety etc Alex: Pop What type of people do you expect to see in a music video? Holly: edgy, confident characters Reece: Relatable someone you can simpervise with. Alex: Someone i can relate to What type of clothing and makeup do you expect to see in a music video? Holly: Extreme makeup, different clothing unusual Reece: Depends on genre, realistic Alex: All different types What type of colours do you expect to see in a music video?
Holly: Bight, soft Reece: Dark Alex: Bright |
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