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History of music videos

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What is a music video

A music video Is a short film that goes along with a

song.

They are mainly used as a marketing point to make

more sells of the song itself.

Music videos bring the song more publicity in order to

help the sells of the song.
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1929- st Louis blues

St Louis blues is an American short film and one of the

first big ones.

This film has an all African American cast.

The film is about 16 minutes long and was filmed in

june 1929.
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1931- lookout sister

This music video was directed by bud pollard

and Louis Jordan
This video was made with mainly black cast
The film is an hour
In the video there is a jump jazz number Jack
youre
Dead
This song was number 1 in the r&b charts and
was at the number 1 sport for 7 weeks, this
shows how much a music video can promote the
song or short film in this case
It was also 21 in the national charts.
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1950- Jailhouse rock

Jailhouse rock was made by the famous star Elvis

Presley.

Is written by jerry leiber and mike stroller, this song

was Elvis Presley's first hit

The song was released on the 24th of September.

IT has been listed in he top 500 songs.

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1968- keep me hanging on

This song was written and composed by holland dozier.

IT was made in 1966.

It first became a popular billboard hot 100 number one

hit for the american motown group The supremes.
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1980- Thriller; Michael Jackson

Michael jacksons music video for thriller was released

on december the 2nd,1983.

The director of this video was jhon landis. The music

video is iconic as it is a 14 minute long musical horror
film.

This video has been seen more than 149 millions times
on youtube.

This video cost half a million dollars and at the time

was the most expensive video made.
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1990s Britney spears; Hit me
baby one more time.
This music viceo was filmed on august 6 in 1998 and
was directed by nigel dick.

The original video set up was in high contrast to what

eventually became the final product. Originally brittney
wanted the video to be cartoon like in order to attract
kids but it didnt turn out this way and instead targeted
teenagers.
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2000s- outkast Hey ya

This music video was directed by Bryan barber.

In this video al the members play.

The video is set up in a performance based way

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2005- pretty rick grind with me
This video starts with them wearing
orange jumpsuits. It takes place in
their house.
They start dancing. This is where
music videos started to become way
more developed with use of many
shots etc.
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2010- Alicia keys; unthinkable.

This music video was made in los angles it was directed

by jake nava.

The video tackles issues of interracial ldating.

The video also won an outstanding music video award

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2017 Ed sheeran- shape of you

This very popular video was released on ed sheerans

channel.

It was shot in seattle and was directed by jason Koenig.