History of Music Video- Task 1

1980's
Music videos in the 1980's showed mostly narrative shot with the occasionally shot of the singer. The shots generally weren't that fast paced and the editing was very obvious this with the shot sliding from black to show another on several occasions. The editing was usually fairly random and didn't always cut to the music. The shots were also fairly long only occasionally changing angle or placing.

1990's
Music videos in the 1990's showed a lot more variation of shots there were a lot more angles and range of shots. There was also a decent amount of both narrative and shots of the band. Unlike the 1980's shots of the rest of the band have more occurrence. The editing is a lot smoother and less noticeable and the shots are cut in time with the music. The mise en scene is thought about a lot more such as lighting, costume and locations compared to the 1980's and are used to show off the genre of the music more.

2000's and onwards
This is where the more modern music video techniques come in as this is where recording labels spend a lot more time and money on music videos. Music videos which are all cartoon or anime style appear more often as there are a lot more programs companies can use. There are also a lot more camera techniques and angles used to give a variety of shots such as over the shoulder shots and close up shots become more used.
The editing is now at a level where you can hardly see the cuts unless it is intended and the cuts tend to be a lot more faced paced changing to different shots or angles of the same shot to give variety to the music video to make it more interesting.


What I have learnt:
I've seen how music videos have changed over time and how the conventions have changed I've also learned about the most inspirational music videos in the overall rock genre such as 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' or more recently 'I Write Sins Not Tragedies'