Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Lip Syncing
In our Lip Syncing Project we got given a song of a certain artist and then we had to go out and record some footage to make a music video. The main objective for this project was to edit our recording exactly in time with the music. This was practice for our making of the real music video. To start off with got given our song which was "weekend in new England" but we then asked if we could change this to "Mandy". Once we had our song we thought it would be a good idea to put the song onto a portable device so that we could listen to the song and how the tune goes because we did not have a ipod lead we recorded it to my phone which did not have a great sound quality but we could make out what it was saying. We then went to Alexendra park round the back of the college and then we started to film our lip syncing. We new that the song was a slow boy band song plus we had all boys in our group so we decided to go with a boy band type video. One of our chorus we recorded was us standing by the side of each other, you could say that we took this from boy bands like westlife and boyzone, so we did use intertextuality. Most of our shots were mid shots which were used in the chorus but we did have one wide shot of a tree to open and close our video.
Later in the day once we had got all of our shots we then moved onto editing. In editing we had to make slugs which would help us to keep in time with the song and so we could then put our clips into the track much easier. While making the song we came up with a problem as we could not get rid of the sound we recorded in the clips, but we then realised that you have to lock each track of sound or video, so once we locked the video footage we could then delete.
A detailed Bibliography
Information on Marc Webb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Webb
Nickelback video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmeUuoxyt_E
Maroon 5 Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNSBq6hvU1s
All American Reject videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqW9YoL401I - Gives you Hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XleOkGsYgO8 - Move Along
Green Day video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00ikilDxW4
Green Day Information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Guns
Nickelback information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_(Nickelback_song)
Music video History and Purpose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_video
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Webb
Nickelback video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmeUuoxyt_E
Maroon 5 Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNSBq6hvU1s
All American Reject videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqW9YoL401I - Gives you Hell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XleOkGsYgO8 - Move Along
Green Day video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r00ikilDxW4
Green Day Information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21_Guns
Nickelback information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockstar_(Nickelback_song)
Music video History and Purpose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_video
Research Into Music Video Director
There are lots of music video directors who have moved onto other things like making movies and making TV programmes, 2 of these examples are Michael Bay who started off his career by directing music videos for Tina Turner, Lional Riche and Meat Loaf, and is now filming movies such as Bad Boys and Transformers. McG (Joseph McGinty Nichol) has started his career making music videos and again has moved on to TV programs like Chuck. Most music video directors also direct short films and major motion pictures; an example of one of these people is Samuel Bayer.
Samuel Bayer was born on 17th February 1965, since then he has directed music videos for many famous artists including Green Day, Marylin Manson, Nirvana and The Rolling Stones. Bayer graduated from New York’s school of Visual Arts in 1987 with a degree in fine arts, he then moved to Los Angeles in 1991 where he was to direct he first famous music video for the rock group Nirvana. After Bayer had directed the Nirvana music video of “Smells like Teen Spirit” he then became popular with rock groups in the alternative rock era. Bayer has become hugely successful in more recent years as well as he was nominated and won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction in 2005 for his work with Green Day on their song “Wake me up when September ends”, “Holiday”, Jesus of Suburbia” and “Holiday”. If that wasn’t enough 2 years later he won the same award, and working with Justin Timberlake, Good Charlotte and once again Green Day.
Bayer’s career has not just spread over music video he has been involved in many other forms of media as well. Bayer has also done work for advertising companies including Coca- Cola, Toyota, Intel, Cadillac, Acura, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Pepsi Cola, Lincoln Aviator, Sony, The U.S. Army and Jeep. Again in doing this some of his adverts have won awards for being truly creative. Bayer has now been selected to direct the new revamp of the film “A Nightmare on Elm Street” in 2010. He has also said that he will either start work on “Fiasco Heights” a new film or he will start work on an adaption on a comic book adaptation.
Bayer’s style of music video ranges from narratives to concepts as well. An example of Bayer’s Narrative work is the song “Wake Me up When September Ends”. This is a very clever music video because at the start of the video there is not any sound and that is because there is a scene in which we see 2 characters in a field with some beautiful flowers around them and they are talking saying how they love each other really much. As the video progresses we do eventually start to hear the song and while the song is going the narrative continues, but concluding in another scene where there is no music but this time the layout is very different, the lighting is still the sun but they are arguing how he went into the army. One thing I noticed about this video that the lighting always seemed to stay the same; this was clever as it gave you the feeling that it was all together. The colour in the video was much different as at the beginning of the video we saw a field of flowers of which was extremely colourful and nice but as the video progresses to when he is at war the colours have changed.
Some of Bayer’s video have a lot of interesting lighting techniques like in “Wake me up when September ends” there was a constant light when they were outside, another good example of this lighting idea is The Rolling Stones “Saint out of me” this follows the same principles as it has a sort of darker lighting and there is an effect which makes the colours contrast a bit more which again goes really well with his idea of the lighting. The colours of the video are quite dull there are no major colours which stand out above the others. Again this is a concept and not a narrative as there is resounding storyline, it is just an idea. The performance part of the music video is very good as it shows of the artists themselves due to the fact that the lead singer is getting into the song and is dancing around a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUp4ej8bVzg
Bayer’s use of lighting is very effective as it shows the artists in a good response but he also uses editing techniques as well, in the video by Green Day “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” we see the singers of green day get out of a car and start walking while we are seeing this we also see an editing technique of which flashes an old school kind of look, this effect go on throughout the whole of the video but it is still really effective. As I said earlier the lighting of Bayer’s videos are usually quite interesting and this is no exception, the video as well as having the edit effect they have very clever lighting in which is either very light or dark, the colours as well are also very dark and low, it is almost like he is trying to set a sort of depression mood in the song. The performance side of the song is very good and I think it promotes the artists well as the lighting shows them quite dark but for some reason we feel like these are good people, I think it is because they walk past lots of people and we see them as by themselves and we feel sorry for them.
Bayer’s use of the music is very good but he also uses something else other than the music and this is some of the video itself. “Working class hero” by Green day shows what I mean as at the beginning of the music video we do not go straight into the song we hear a bit about the working class as this song was originally recorded by John Lennon talking about how the working class are getting ignored. Again the same points apply as the lighting is very dark and they have used the editing effect as well of black and white. The black and white technique is good as it backs up what the video is trying to say.
Below are some audience responses to some of Samuel Bayer’s work of “Wake Me up when September ends” this is how the audience has responded to his work.
DavidLovesAmber1 -this song kicks ass but why can’t she understand he did it for a good cause?
kitisurhomie -a work of art :)
sgttysar -@crossfiretl2 Army is Scout sniper I imagine Marines are to but idk anything about marines im Army HOOAH
SahBillieJoeLover -I love this song +_______+
matt2ndchannel -this is a great video
timeassassin32 -what the hell happened in the video what did he do
ironhide891 -@redcell64 cuz he said that he would never leave her and then he went to war i guess
ironhide891 -@caniblezombie me to and it is a f**king beautiful song
10metube01 -women....
MrEdbadluck -hehe its funny when the uploaded say this is her/his lifetime goal
Klenki89 -make love not war, it was stupid so sign up for the army in the first place. If you fight, it should be your last choice(like if you were forced to fight for your existence). The ones who volunteer is just looking for a problem to solve, to give their life’s more meaning (at least they think it does). Who want to live without their father?
-Why did your father die?
-Because he was a little boy and wanted to fight with guns, and didn’t think of the consequences....
MrEdbadluck -I don’t like wars too because of the casualties, but u don’t have to say it is to make their life more meaningful ,dying is very painful u know, see on the bright side ok? the army are fighting the terrorists to make sure the terrorists incident doesn’t happen, although I’m not supporting both side ,so don’t say things like that ok? cheer up buddy
Klenki89 -make love not war, that’s the reason it was stupid to sign up for the army in the first place. you should be called to the army, not volunteer. The ones who volunteer is just looking for a problem to solve, to make their lives more valuable. I pity the families and friends who have to go through that:
-Why did you daddy die?
-because W bush was angry at Saddam Hussein..
Make love not war!!
lovelace92 -joined the army
lovelace92- she does at the end
As you can see the audience have really gotten involved with Bayer’s narrative and have really enjoyed his idea of having a deep and meaningful narrative. There are many other audience responses that have come back on Bayer’s work such as Green days “Working class hero”
1039SmthdOutSlpyHrs -don’t compare the two artists: one is punk pop, the other is British invasion. I think both did an excellent job promoting a message to the ppl, and both did excellent variations of the song :)
cicalinarrot -Omg, it was the only nice Lennon’s song (without the Beatles)
slytherinspy1960 -we should always fight for freedom whether it is here in our own country or elsewhere. This is an amazing tribute to not only the people of Darfur but also the memory of john Lennon. rip john Lennon, may your words touch many more.
browndd -im not sure where you learned your political history buy your are way off in you are describing socialist idea as being capitalist and in fact green day are very good capitalist just look at how much money there making and so you know taxes are not used to line the pockets of politicians but rather to make sure when you get rubbed there are cops and medical personnel to tend to you and to cap it all off their such a thing as freedom of speech and no us person has ever been arrested for speaking out
SCORCH6200000 -This is almost if not as good as John Lennon's version, Green Day did this song good
Again this shows the responses to his work and how the audience feels that this is as good as John Lennon’s version as it has been so well made. In the group of comments made just above they even start to talk about the big issue as it has shown how well made it is. if they did think that the artist done s good job with the song then they are complimenting the music video director as well.
Samuel Bayer is a truly brilliant music video director as his colours which are used in his videos are really clever as they help promote the song as well as the artist. His ideas of which he uses in his videos of editing techniques and lighting ideas are very clever as they help to affect you while you are watching the music video. Finally his narratives and concepts are truly original in the way that he has created narratives such as the “wake me up when September ends” as it had such a clever narrative and it did make you feel a bit sad. His concepts as well are truly clever as they again are original as in the music video “saint out of me” this is just an idea of what saints might look like. Overall I think Samuel Bayer provides a good viewpoint of what his imagination is like and how he puts across his ideas.
Samuel Bayer was born on 17th February 1965, since then he has directed music videos for many famous artists including Green Day, Marylin Manson, Nirvana and The Rolling Stones. Bayer graduated from New York’s school of Visual Arts in 1987 with a degree in fine arts, he then moved to Los Angeles in 1991 where he was to direct he first famous music video for the rock group Nirvana. After Bayer had directed the Nirvana music video of “Smells like Teen Spirit” he then became popular with rock groups in the alternative rock era. Bayer has become hugely successful in more recent years as well as he was nominated and won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction in 2005 for his work with Green Day on their song “Wake me up when September ends”, “Holiday”, Jesus of Suburbia” and “Holiday”. If that wasn’t enough 2 years later he won the same award, and working with Justin Timberlake, Good Charlotte and once again Green Day.
Bayer’s career has not just spread over music video he has been involved in many other forms of media as well. Bayer has also done work for advertising companies including Coca- Cola, Toyota, Intel, Cadillac, Acura, Nissan, Mercedes-Benz, Pepsi Cola, Lincoln Aviator, Sony, The U.S. Army and Jeep. Again in doing this some of his adverts have won awards for being truly creative. Bayer has now been selected to direct the new revamp of the film “A Nightmare on Elm Street” in 2010. He has also said that he will either start work on “Fiasco Heights” a new film or he will start work on an adaption on a comic book adaptation.
Bayer’s style of music video ranges from narratives to concepts as well. An example of Bayer’s Narrative work is the song “Wake Me up When September Ends”. This is a very clever music video because at the start of the video there is not any sound and that is because there is a scene in which we see 2 characters in a field with some beautiful flowers around them and they are talking saying how they love each other really much. As the video progresses we do eventually start to hear the song and while the song is going the narrative continues, but concluding in another scene where there is no music but this time the layout is very different, the lighting is still the sun but they are arguing how he went into the army. One thing I noticed about this video that the lighting always seemed to stay the same; this was clever as it gave you the feeling that it was all together. The colour in the video was much different as at the beginning of the video we saw a field of flowers of which was extremely colourful and nice but as the video progresses to when he is at war the colours have changed.
Some of Bayer’s video have a lot of interesting lighting techniques like in “Wake me up when September ends” there was a constant light when they were outside, another good example of this lighting idea is The Rolling Stones “Saint out of me” this follows the same principles as it has a sort of darker lighting and there is an effect which makes the colours contrast a bit more which again goes really well with his idea of the lighting. The colours of the video are quite dull there are no major colours which stand out above the others. Again this is a concept and not a narrative as there is resounding storyline, it is just an idea. The performance part of the music video is very good as it shows of the artists themselves due to the fact that the lead singer is getting into the song and is dancing around a bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUp4ej8bVzg
Bayer’s use of lighting is very effective as it shows the artists in a good response but he also uses editing techniques as well, in the video by Green Day “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” we see the singers of green day get out of a car and start walking while we are seeing this we also see an editing technique of which flashes an old school kind of look, this effect go on throughout the whole of the video but it is still really effective. As I said earlier the lighting of Bayer’s videos are usually quite interesting and this is no exception, the video as well as having the edit effect they have very clever lighting in which is either very light or dark, the colours as well are also very dark and low, it is almost like he is trying to set a sort of depression mood in the song. The performance side of the song is very good and I think it promotes the artists well as the lighting shows them quite dark but for some reason we feel like these are good people, I think it is because they walk past lots of people and we see them as by themselves and we feel sorry for them.
Bayer’s use of the music is very good but he also uses something else other than the music and this is some of the video itself. “Working class hero” by Green day shows what I mean as at the beginning of the music video we do not go straight into the song we hear a bit about the working class as this song was originally recorded by John Lennon talking about how the working class are getting ignored. Again the same points apply as the lighting is very dark and they have used the editing effect as well of black and white. The black and white technique is good as it backs up what the video is trying to say.
Below are some audience responses to some of Samuel Bayer’s work of “Wake Me up when September ends” this is how the audience has responded to his work.
DavidLovesAmber1 -this song kicks ass but why can’t she understand he did it for a good cause?
kitisurhomie -a work of art :)
sgttysar -@crossfiretl2 Army is Scout sniper I imagine Marines are to but idk anything about marines im Army HOOAH
SahBillieJoeLover -I love this song +_______+
matt2ndchannel -this is a great video
timeassassin32 -what the hell happened in the video what did he do
ironhide891 -@redcell64 cuz he said that he would never leave her and then he went to war i guess
ironhide891 -@caniblezombie me to and it is a f**king beautiful song
10metube01 -women....
MrEdbadluck -hehe its funny when the uploaded say this is her/his lifetime goal
Klenki89 -make love not war, it was stupid so sign up for the army in the first place. If you fight, it should be your last choice(like if you were forced to fight for your existence). The ones who volunteer is just looking for a problem to solve, to give their life’s more meaning (at least they think it does). Who want to live without their father?
-Why did your father die?
-Because he was a little boy and wanted to fight with guns, and didn’t think of the consequences....
MrEdbadluck -I don’t like wars too because of the casualties, but u don’t have to say it is to make their life more meaningful ,dying is very painful u know, see on the bright side ok? the army are fighting the terrorists to make sure the terrorists incident doesn’t happen, although I’m not supporting both side ,so don’t say things like that ok? cheer up buddy
Klenki89 -make love not war, that’s the reason it was stupid to sign up for the army in the first place. you should be called to the army, not volunteer. The ones who volunteer is just looking for a problem to solve, to make their lives more valuable. I pity the families and friends who have to go through that:
-Why did you daddy die?
-because W bush was angry at Saddam Hussein..
Make love not war!!
lovelace92 -joined the army
lovelace92- she does at the end
As you can see the audience have really gotten involved with Bayer’s narrative and have really enjoyed his idea of having a deep and meaningful narrative. There are many other audience responses that have come back on Bayer’s work such as Green days “Working class hero”
1039SmthdOutSlpyHrs -don’t compare the two artists: one is punk pop, the other is British invasion. I think both did an excellent job promoting a message to the ppl, and both did excellent variations of the song :)
cicalinarrot -Omg, it was the only nice Lennon’s song (without the Beatles)
slytherinspy1960 -we should always fight for freedom whether it is here in our own country or elsewhere. This is an amazing tribute to not only the people of Darfur but also the memory of john Lennon. rip john Lennon, may your words touch many more.
browndd -im not sure where you learned your political history buy your are way off in you are describing socialist idea as being capitalist and in fact green day are very good capitalist just look at how much money there making and so you know taxes are not used to line the pockets of politicians but rather to make sure when you get rubbed there are cops and medical personnel to tend to you and to cap it all off their such a thing as freedom of speech and no us person has ever been arrested for speaking out
SCORCH6200000 -This is almost if not as good as John Lennon's version, Green Day did this song good
Again this shows the responses to his work and how the audience feels that this is as good as John Lennon’s version as it has been so well made. In the group of comments made just above they even start to talk about the big issue as it has shown how well made it is. if they did think that the artist done s good job with the song then they are complimenting the music video director as well.
Samuel Bayer is a truly brilliant music video director as his colours which are used in his videos are really clever as they help promote the song as well as the artist. His ideas of which he uses in his videos of editing techniques and lighting ideas are very clever as they help to affect you while you are watching the music video. Finally his narratives and concepts are truly original in the way that he has created narratives such as the “wake me up when September ends” as it had such a clever narrative and it did make you feel a bit sad. His concepts as well are truly clever as they again are original as in the music video “saint out of me” this is just an idea of what saints might look like. Overall I think Samuel Bayer provides a good viewpoint of what his imagination is like and how he puts across his ideas.
Textual Analysis of 2 Contempary Music Videos
Green Day- "21 Guns"
Directed by- Marc Webb
On May 25 2009 the artists Green Day released their new song 21 Guns on ITunes and then again on CD on July 14. The song Green Day 21 Guns was written by the band. Green Day is usually a punk rock but they have been known to do acoustic songs as well. The music video of 21 Guns was recorded in June 6 in Los Angeles California, it premiered on MySpace on June 22.
The music video is set in a house were we see 2 people a male and a female. The male is sitting on a chair holding what appears to be an empty bullet. The man drops the bullet and when it hits the floor the music begins to start. The 2 main points in the video which tells us what it is about is the bullet and the female walks over to the window to see police lights. From this we can guess that these people have done something wrong and this is confirmed when bullets then start penetrating the house, hence the name of the track 21 Guns. The music video itself was directed by Marc Webb who has done many other pieces of work for people like My Chemical Romance, Snow Patrol and Maroon 5.
In the music video as the director Marc Webb will make sure that Misc-en-Scene is exactly the way he wants it as this is one of the most important factor in making a music video. In 21 Guns the misc en scene is a white room in a house. Some of the props which they use are a mirror a phone and a fish tank. One of the props used at the beginning of the video is a bullet. The bullet seems to signify that something is not right as the person who is holding it is staring at it, plus the fact that it is a bullet. Another prop which is used in the video is a phone. The phone is used by the woman who sees that it is ringing and answers it; after she has answered it she throws it into the fish tank. The costumes in which the 2 characters are wearing are both quite dark but are very individual as they are dark but it makes you feel sorry for them.
The cinematography in the video is very little movement there is very rarely a fast and speedy movement however they do use a slow motion filter which slows all of the shots down, with fast action happening but it is slowed down this looks effective as well as giving the director more time to get more shots of the action. The lighting of the room is fairly well light as it makes it look more like a real house, however half way through the video the lighting changes to just a solid beam of light over the 2 characters. One of the most important things about cinematography is the camera shots. In this video the camera shots used are mainly close ups and mid shots to show the characters facial expressions as to what is happening. There is also use of a crabbing shot which is used very effectively as it circles the 2 characters very slowly but it also does the same thing with the lead singing of Green Day (Billie Joe Armstrong). In the video when the band are performing they are performing in the house as well, when the crabbing shot of the characters begins they do the same thing with the lead singer, the light on the characters is exactly the same as the singer but the only difference between the 2 shots is that in the shot of the characters you see bullet hole penetrate the wall and allow very small holes of light, and when the lead singer sings you just see things being destroyed not the bullet holes.
As I said earlier there are a few good uses of visual effects, the most obvious one is the slow motion movement shot which are used in some of the shots. This gives the audience more of a chance to see things which should be happening much faster. The second visual effect which I thought was very effective was to do with the lighting. At 3 minutes and 10 seconds the lighting changes, this is a very big dramatic changing of the light and it changes the whole song. The lighting then becomes just on top of the characters so like a spot light, and everything else just becomes dark, the focus is just on the characters as they kiss. Apart from the shot with the lead singer there isn’t that much slow motion used on the band.
In most music videos there is usually some reference between the song lyrics and the song visual, usually in film and TV there is a good strong link between the music and the visuals, for example in the TV series Friends the song “I’ll be there for you” by the Rembrandts has a deep effect as the song title is I’ll be there for you and it is about friends who you can imagine will be there for you. The visuals and the lyrics in this song fit fairly well as the song is called 21 guns, and in the video they are getting shot by 21 guns and so this is the link.
As well as the lyrics having to have some reference to the video so does the music itself, as without these two things then the song will not sell. The relationship between the song and the video is that in the song there is not a very fast pace, which is unusually for this band as they usually do more fast beat songs. In the song we do not see a fast paced edit and even when the song itself picks up it doesn’t even come out of using the slow motion which makes you think that this song is still a slow paced song.
Some music video have tried using experimental ideas of colour or possibly something else, sometimes when people try these ideas they work out really well, some people have seen these ideas and know that these have worked well and so decided to copy what this person has done but use it as their own. This is called intertextuality. In Green Day’s 21 guns there are several incidents of intertextuality for example uses of shot types and use of spot light, but overall it has made something that is all together very individual. This is because I think that the song is very individual as well, because it is a slow song and does not have up-beat tempo and yet it is a rock song.
As music videos have been around for nearly a century people usually will associate certain types of video with certain music so for example if it was a rock song you would expect a quick cut to the next shot and lots of dark colours and possibly even a bit violent. 21 guns is a slow paced rock song which surprisingly works well together as usually there isn’t a slow paced rock songs as they don’t work. With the slow motion showing the slow pace of the song it also works very well with the upbeat chorus and of course works well with the verses as they are not so much rock.
Music video’s tend to come under 1 of 3 genres the first being Performance, the second being narrative and the last being concept. A lot of music videos these days tend to be a mixture of all 3 for example Bjork- all is full of love, this is a concept as it is just saying that female robots could have sex however it could also be a narrative as well as there is a bit of a story to it. With 21 guns you could say it was a bit of all 3 as there is a feel of concept to it as the room in which they are in feels original, but again it could just as equally be a narrative as they start off sat on a chair and looking out of the window and then move to be kissing each other. Finally it could also be a performance as it the band is in the music video and is singing to the song.
As the song is what the band are trying to sell and the video is a promotion for the song, the video is not just a promotion of the song it is also a promotion for the act themselves as if it shows them in a good light then people will be more inclined to buy their music. The music video for 21 guns is a very good representation to the song as it shows the rock side of the song well and also shows the quite parts to the song as well but the video links in the two parts of the song making the song fit together very nicely. The song also promotes the band very well as well as it shows them as the non bias people not actually taking part in the video but can sympathize for both sides of the argument which is taking place.
The intended audience of this song are young adult and teenagers as they band are quite a cool looking group plus the music in which they play would appeal to teenagers.
Nickelback- "Rockstar"
Directed by- Dori Oskowitz
Nickelback are a hugely popular and well selling rock band which was formed in 1995 by Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake. Since then they have had major success with the songs “How you remind me”, Photograph” and many others. One video which they have produced though has been a major success, this video and song is called Rockstars. The songs original release on the 22nd august 2006 had not had much of a success as it had reached various points on the charts but had not done anything special. On the 2nd June 2007 they released a music video for both this song and “Far away”. When they had made the music video which it was directed by Dori Oskowitz it had been a huge success as it had increased sale dramatically. The song itself had reached number 3 on ITunes most downloaded song plus it had also reached number 1 on ITunes most downloaded music video. The song had then become a big success as it had reached charts which it hadn’t got to the first time around.
The misc-en-scene of the music video is a tricky one to answer as there are so many different scenes but I can talk about the actors in each shot. In each shot there is always a different person or persons having said that there are a few people how get repeated. The music video is a group of shots which consist of different people miming the words to the song; these people consist of celebrities as well as just normal people. The celebrities are usually in a unknown location but with the normal people they are in famous locations, for example there is a older man standing outside the houses of parliament, there is also a semi naked cowboy which is in times square in New York. There is also no use of costumes as everyone always uses just their own cloths, which is effective as it feels like the video was easy to make.
Again with cinematography there are no real clever effects and no CGI or anything as it is just normal shots perfectly in synch with the video. There are no sudden movements in each shot there is only a slow movement of zooming in or possibly out and sometimes there is no movement what so ever. However there are fairly quick cuts as they have to be if they are lip synching. The song I feel has influenced the visuals as the song is talking about how everyone wants to be a Rockstars and how they would do anything to get it, this in turn has been interpreted by the director by getting loads of normal people and getting them to sing the song, they also use celebrities to show that even people who have a lot of money would still like to be a Rockstars.
There are no incredible visual effects but there are clever editing techniques. The first technique they have used is a lip synching one as this is perfectly in time with the visuals. They have also used quick cuts to go throughout the song which this is very effective as it shows all the people who want to be Rockstars.
The relationship between the lyrics and the visuals is a very important one as it is a very big link, the link between the lyrics and the visuals is that it is showing you all the people who want to be Rockstars, and in the song they talk about how everyone wants to be a Rockstar and what they have to do to get it and what it is like being it.
Another link between is the music and the visuals. This is a very important one as without this the video could be dreadful; as if the music does not go with the visuals then the promotion of the song isn’t very good. When you look at this genre of music which is rock you would expect to see a performance from the band itself and also have probably woman dancing around, however this song has changed its music video genre as in doing this it has made the genre of music video fit with the song. With the music you have a specific target audience and this is what you have to target it to, when making the music video you have to make sure that you don’t cut down you target audience as if you do the promotion will not work, this is what the song and video has done. The song has appealed to its target market but when creating the music video, it has appealed to a wider range of audience resulting in a new market for the song and in doing this they have been successful with it. The relationship between the lyrics is the audience are with the people in the video as they wouldn’t mind being Rockstars, the music is a rocky song and so the people in the video are either dancing like a Rockstar would want them to dance or pretending that they are in fact a real Rockstar.
There is no real use of intertextuality as the video is made up of lip synching and from there the director has said that we could make a whole video out of lip synching, this is a very original idea which is why it has sold so many copies of the song, there is nothing which is really coping anyone as they have just taking a standard idea or possibly even a law in music video and have just taken it to a new level.
The song is a very rocky song as has lots of genre characteristics to it. For example when you think of a rock song like this you would expect to have dancing woman or something else but in this song the genre characteristics of the video have been thrown out the window as it is nothing like what a normal rock video would be like. Having said that there are certain parts of the video which are associated with rock videos. These are that everyone is dancing like a Rockstar; the second is some of the people in the music video are pretending that they have a guitar and are pretending that they are a Rockstar. There is also a small characteristic in the song as the song talks about drugs in the chorus which again is associated with a Rockstar. That part of the song was blanked out during day time as it deemed to be offensive and inappropriate for children.
The video itself is not really under any of the titles but you could argue that it is as well. I believe that the song could be described as a concept as it is an idea and people have gotten involved with it. I think what it really is though is a performance. I think it is a performance as it has loads of people just performing themselves as if they were Rockstars, but the strange thing is about the performance is that none of the performers are part of the band until the very end when we see the band performing on stage but apart from that they have managed to make a success of a song by not including themselves in the video.
The image of the band has probably gone up in this video as it is a good song and it is a good video however you could argue that they did not appear in the video so how could this possibly make them more famous? Well the song itself advertises the bands voice and general style of music which shows them in a good light and will promote themselves in a small light, but what they have really done here is that they have promoted their band more than anything so that people will enjoy their music and will come back and listen for more, which is what they want to happen. The music video itself again is not advertising the individual people it is advertising the band and their style of music.
The intended audience for the song is everyone as it has a wide appeal of lots of people; it could appeal to teenagers but equally as much to adults and young adults. This is what the music video has done, the director knows what the target audience is and has pushed the song towards the target audience. The reason why it appeal to a lot of ages is because it is not solely a rock song as it is talking about Rockstars and saying how it would be good to be one as you would have lots of money.....etc, and in doing this, this has made people think yeah it wouldn’t be bad. What I am trying to say here is that the music video has the same or possibly a wider range of audience which is unusually because it doesn’t usually work this way.
In conclusion I believe the music video is a huge success due to its wide audience appeal and that how it makes you watch the video to see if there are any celebrities who you know. It also is successful because it has a good song in the back ground, if the song had not of reached such point to begin with I do not think that the song would of been a huge success.
Directed by- Marc Webb
On May 25 2009 the artists Green Day released their new song 21 Guns on ITunes and then again on CD on July 14. The song Green Day 21 Guns was written by the band. Green Day is usually a punk rock but they have been known to do acoustic songs as well. The music video of 21 Guns was recorded in June 6 in Los Angeles California, it premiered on MySpace on June 22.
The music video is set in a house were we see 2 people a male and a female. The male is sitting on a chair holding what appears to be an empty bullet. The man drops the bullet and when it hits the floor the music begins to start. The 2 main points in the video which tells us what it is about is the bullet and the female walks over to the window to see police lights. From this we can guess that these people have done something wrong and this is confirmed when bullets then start penetrating the house, hence the name of the track 21 Guns. The music video itself was directed by Marc Webb who has done many other pieces of work for people like My Chemical Romance, Snow Patrol and Maroon 5.
In the music video as the director Marc Webb will make sure that Misc-en-Scene is exactly the way he wants it as this is one of the most important factor in making a music video. In 21 Guns the misc en scene is a white room in a house. Some of the props which they use are a mirror a phone and a fish tank. One of the props used at the beginning of the video is a bullet. The bullet seems to signify that something is not right as the person who is holding it is staring at it, plus the fact that it is a bullet. Another prop which is used in the video is a phone. The phone is used by the woman who sees that it is ringing and answers it; after she has answered it she throws it into the fish tank. The costumes in which the 2 characters are wearing are both quite dark but are very individual as they are dark but it makes you feel sorry for them.
The cinematography in the video is very little movement there is very rarely a fast and speedy movement however they do use a slow motion filter which slows all of the shots down, with fast action happening but it is slowed down this looks effective as well as giving the director more time to get more shots of the action. The lighting of the room is fairly well light as it makes it look more like a real house, however half way through the video the lighting changes to just a solid beam of light over the 2 characters. One of the most important things about cinematography is the camera shots. In this video the camera shots used are mainly close ups and mid shots to show the characters facial expressions as to what is happening. There is also use of a crabbing shot which is used very effectively as it circles the 2 characters very slowly but it also does the same thing with the lead singing of Green Day (Billie Joe Armstrong). In the video when the band are performing they are performing in the house as well, when the crabbing shot of the characters begins they do the same thing with the lead singer, the light on the characters is exactly the same as the singer but the only difference between the 2 shots is that in the shot of the characters you see bullet hole penetrate the wall and allow very small holes of light, and when the lead singer sings you just see things being destroyed not the bullet holes.
As I said earlier there are a few good uses of visual effects, the most obvious one is the slow motion movement shot which are used in some of the shots. This gives the audience more of a chance to see things which should be happening much faster. The second visual effect which I thought was very effective was to do with the lighting. At 3 minutes and 10 seconds the lighting changes, this is a very big dramatic changing of the light and it changes the whole song. The lighting then becomes just on top of the characters so like a spot light, and everything else just becomes dark, the focus is just on the characters as they kiss. Apart from the shot with the lead singer there isn’t that much slow motion used on the band.
In most music videos there is usually some reference between the song lyrics and the song visual, usually in film and TV there is a good strong link between the music and the visuals, for example in the TV series Friends the song “I’ll be there for you” by the Rembrandts has a deep effect as the song title is I’ll be there for you and it is about friends who you can imagine will be there for you. The visuals and the lyrics in this song fit fairly well as the song is called 21 guns, and in the video they are getting shot by 21 guns and so this is the link.
As well as the lyrics having to have some reference to the video so does the music itself, as without these two things then the song will not sell. The relationship between the song and the video is that in the song there is not a very fast pace, which is unusually for this band as they usually do more fast beat songs. In the song we do not see a fast paced edit and even when the song itself picks up it doesn’t even come out of using the slow motion which makes you think that this song is still a slow paced song.
Some music video have tried using experimental ideas of colour or possibly something else, sometimes when people try these ideas they work out really well, some people have seen these ideas and know that these have worked well and so decided to copy what this person has done but use it as their own. This is called intertextuality. In Green Day’s 21 guns there are several incidents of intertextuality for example uses of shot types and use of spot light, but overall it has made something that is all together very individual. This is because I think that the song is very individual as well, because it is a slow song and does not have up-beat tempo and yet it is a rock song.
As music videos have been around for nearly a century people usually will associate certain types of video with certain music so for example if it was a rock song you would expect a quick cut to the next shot and lots of dark colours and possibly even a bit violent. 21 guns is a slow paced rock song which surprisingly works well together as usually there isn’t a slow paced rock songs as they don’t work. With the slow motion showing the slow pace of the song it also works very well with the upbeat chorus and of course works well with the verses as they are not so much rock.
Music video’s tend to come under 1 of 3 genres the first being Performance, the second being narrative and the last being concept. A lot of music videos these days tend to be a mixture of all 3 for example Bjork- all is full of love, this is a concept as it is just saying that female robots could have sex however it could also be a narrative as well as there is a bit of a story to it. With 21 guns you could say it was a bit of all 3 as there is a feel of concept to it as the room in which they are in feels original, but again it could just as equally be a narrative as they start off sat on a chair and looking out of the window and then move to be kissing each other. Finally it could also be a performance as it the band is in the music video and is singing to the song.
As the song is what the band are trying to sell and the video is a promotion for the song, the video is not just a promotion of the song it is also a promotion for the act themselves as if it shows them in a good light then people will be more inclined to buy their music. The music video for 21 guns is a very good representation to the song as it shows the rock side of the song well and also shows the quite parts to the song as well but the video links in the two parts of the song making the song fit together very nicely. The song also promotes the band very well as well as it shows them as the non bias people not actually taking part in the video but can sympathize for both sides of the argument which is taking place.
The intended audience of this song are young adult and teenagers as they band are quite a cool looking group plus the music in which they play would appeal to teenagers.
Nickelback- "Rockstar"
Directed by- Dori Oskowitz
Nickelback are a hugely popular and well selling rock band which was formed in 1995 by Chad Kroeger, Mike Kroeger, Ryan Peake. Since then they have had major success with the songs “How you remind me”, Photograph” and many others. One video which they have produced though has been a major success, this video and song is called Rockstars. The songs original release on the 22nd august 2006 had not had much of a success as it had reached various points on the charts but had not done anything special. On the 2nd June 2007 they released a music video for both this song and “Far away”. When they had made the music video which it was directed by Dori Oskowitz it had been a huge success as it had increased sale dramatically. The song itself had reached number 3 on ITunes most downloaded song plus it had also reached number 1 on ITunes most downloaded music video. The song had then become a big success as it had reached charts which it hadn’t got to the first time around.
The misc-en-scene of the music video is a tricky one to answer as there are so many different scenes but I can talk about the actors in each shot. In each shot there is always a different person or persons having said that there are a few people how get repeated. The music video is a group of shots which consist of different people miming the words to the song; these people consist of celebrities as well as just normal people. The celebrities are usually in a unknown location but with the normal people they are in famous locations, for example there is a older man standing outside the houses of parliament, there is also a semi naked cowboy which is in times square in New York. There is also no use of costumes as everyone always uses just their own cloths, which is effective as it feels like the video was easy to make.
Again with cinematography there are no real clever effects and no CGI or anything as it is just normal shots perfectly in synch with the video. There are no sudden movements in each shot there is only a slow movement of zooming in or possibly out and sometimes there is no movement what so ever. However there are fairly quick cuts as they have to be if they are lip synching. The song I feel has influenced the visuals as the song is talking about how everyone wants to be a Rockstars and how they would do anything to get it, this in turn has been interpreted by the director by getting loads of normal people and getting them to sing the song, they also use celebrities to show that even people who have a lot of money would still like to be a Rockstars.
There are no incredible visual effects but there are clever editing techniques. The first technique they have used is a lip synching one as this is perfectly in time with the visuals. They have also used quick cuts to go throughout the song which this is very effective as it shows all the people who want to be Rockstars.
The relationship between the lyrics and the visuals is a very important one as it is a very big link, the link between the lyrics and the visuals is that it is showing you all the people who want to be Rockstars, and in the song they talk about how everyone wants to be a Rockstar and what they have to do to get it and what it is like being it.
Another link between is the music and the visuals. This is a very important one as without this the video could be dreadful; as if the music does not go with the visuals then the promotion of the song isn’t very good. When you look at this genre of music which is rock you would expect to see a performance from the band itself and also have probably woman dancing around, however this song has changed its music video genre as in doing this it has made the genre of music video fit with the song. With the music you have a specific target audience and this is what you have to target it to, when making the music video you have to make sure that you don’t cut down you target audience as if you do the promotion will not work, this is what the song and video has done. The song has appealed to its target market but when creating the music video, it has appealed to a wider range of audience resulting in a new market for the song and in doing this they have been successful with it. The relationship between the lyrics is the audience are with the people in the video as they wouldn’t mind being Rockstars, the music is a rocky song and so the people in the video are either dancing like a Rockstar would want them to dance or pretending that they are in fact a real Rockstar.
There is no real use of intertextuality as the video is made up of lip synching and from there the director has said that we could make a whole video out of lip synching, this is a very original idea which is why it has sold so many copies of the song, there is nothing which is really coping anyone as they have just taking a standard idea or possibly even a law in music video and have just taken it to a new level.
The song is a very rocky song as has lots of genre characteristics to it. For example when you think of a rock song like this you would expect to have dancing woman or something else but in this song the genre characteristics of the video have been thrown out the window as it is nothing like what a normal rock video would be like. Having said that there are certain parts of the video which are associated with rock videos. These are that everyone is dancing like a Rockstar; the second is some of the people in the music video are pretending that they have a guitar and are pretending that they are a Rockstar. There is also a small characteristic in the song as the song talks about drugs in the chorus which again is associated with a Rockstar. That part of the song was blanked out during day time as it deemed to be offensive and inappropriate for children.
The video itself is not really under any of the titles but you could argue that it is as well. I believe that the song could be described as a concept as it is an idea and people have gotten involved with it. I think what it really is though is a performance. I think it is a performance as it has loads of people just performing themselves as if they were Rockstars, but the strange thing is about the performance is that none of the performers are part of the band until the very end when we see the band performing on stage but apart from that they have managed to make a success of a song by not including themselves in the video.
The image of the band has probably gone up in this video as it is a good song and it is a good video however you could argue that they did not appear in the video so how could this possibly make them more famous? Well the song itself advertises the bands voice and general style of music which shows them in a good light and will promote themselves in a small light, but what they have really done here is that they have promoted their band more than anything so that people will enjoy their music and will come back and listen for more, which is what they want to happen. The music video itself again is not advertising the individual people it is advertising the band and their style of music.
The intended audience for the song is everyone as it has a wide appeal of lots of people; it could appeal to teenagers but equally as much to adults and young adults. This is what the music video has done, the director knows what the target audience is and has pushed the song towards the target audience. The reason why it appeal to a lot of ages is because it is not solely a rock song as it is talking about Rockstars and saying how it would be good to be one as you would have lots of money.....etc, and in doing this, this has made people think yeah it wouldn’t be bad. What I am trying to say here is that the music video has the same or possibly a wider range of audience which is unusually because it doesn’t usually work this way.
In conclusion I believe the music video is a huge success due to its wide audience appeal and that how it makes you watch the video to see if there are any celebrities who you know. It also is successful because it has a good song in the back ground, if the song had not of reached such point to begin with I do not think that the song would of been a huge success.
Purposes of Music Videos
What Is a Music Video?
A music video is a means of promoting a song which a band has made. Most music videos have the artist in the video as it is their song and this would help promote the artist as well as the song. A prime example of this promotional achievement would be Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson has the world record for the most copies of an album sold. This album of course was called “Thriller”. “Thriller” the album had cost $750,000 just to make. Jackson himself had written some of the songs in the album including “Beat It” and “Billie Jean”, but his most successful song was Thriller. The song thriller was recorded during April up to November in 1982. For the first year the song had not sold much as the last album “Off the Wall”. In recent years music videos had been quite successful due to the new release of the music channel “MTV” which was released in 1982.
Promotion
The promotion of the song is all in the music video, as this is how people will remember the song by the video. This is called music representation. Music representation is a visual format of what the song is about, this could be lots of different formats as this depends on how the director sees and feels about the song.
Extension of Outlets
The extension of outlets means where the song will be played, for example the most obvious place for a music video MTV. The extension of outlets is basically where about the song will be advertised. Some of the most obvious choices are MTV, VH1, and TMF but a lot of artists will also put their song on internet video sites such as YouTube. These again are ways of advertising to the target audience. In turn this makes the audience want to buy the song and it will be waiting for them on places like I-tunes or possible be able to download it off of your phone.
Extension of Income
One of the tags which comes with a music video is an extension of income because the advertisement will get advertise the artist and the song which in turn will make more people buy the album or single which then causes the album to get re-noticed and so therefore begins to sell more copies. As I said earlier Michael Jacksons “Thriller done this well as the song was out for a year but then when the music video was made it became the world’s biggest selling album to date. The money is also used to recuperate money lost from making the video.
Links to Film or TV
Some artists will work together with films and TV programs to make more of an advertisement. When Transformers was released the rock band Linkin Park joined forces with the film and allowed their song to be played this in turn giving them more advertisement. Other artists may wish to advertise through programs such as the X factor.
MTV
As I said earlier music videos were created as an advertising purpose, the biggest of these advertising would be MTV or Music Video Television. MTV’s history began in 1977 when Warner Cable (A division of Warner Communications) decided to make the first 2 way cable TV system; one of these channels was a music channel which featured footage from artist’s concerts. The original idea for MTV came from a man called Robert Pittman, Pittman had tested his idea by going on air on a show called “Pop clips” which he had produced and hosted. People had really enjoyed it and thought that this was a good show. Pittman then later became chief executive officer of MTV Networks.
First Music Video
The first music video was not shown on TV it was shown in a concert while the band were performing. The idea of Music videos have been around since 1894 this was when the first music video was created. It was created by Edward Masen and Joe Stern who came up with the idea of promoting their song by using still images, they done this on one of their songs “The Little Lost Child”. The idea was that when they were playing their song they would have a series of still images being shown. Which is exactly what they did, they had the images of a blurred kitten this was considered to be the first music video. An example of a music video before the release of MTV was “A Hard Day’s Night” by the Beatles. This was not just a music video they also released a feature film with the same title as the song.
History of Music Video Channels
MTV was what made music videos big but it wasn’t the very first music video program, The first music video program was in Sydney, Australia. The show was called “sounds” and was released in 1974 and was hosted by the former radio DJ Graham Webb. The show was aimed at mainly teenagers at was aired every week on Sydney's ATN-7 on Saturday mornings, the show was initially called “sounds unlimited” but then got shortened to just “sounds”. The host of the show Webb was running out of music videos and so turned to Russell Mulcahy a newsroom staffer, Webb asked him to make some new material by recording some video to go with some of the music. Mulcahy had had so much success from these videos that he quit his job, and from his success he began to direct music videos for Stylus, Marcia Hines, Hush and AC/DC. Mulcahy had some early success and so moved to Britain after already directing songs for XTC’s “Making Plans for Nigel” and The Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star” which became the first music video to be played on MTV.
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops is one of the longest running shows on the BBC and was also one of the most successful. Top of The Pops started to air in the late 1970’s and then got moved to Thursday’s on BBC 1 and then got moved to Fridays in 1996 before being finally moved to Sundays in 2005.
Some of the first most succesful music video's
Some of the first most succesful music videos were in the 70's. one of which was made by Queen this was "Bohemian Rhapsody" this amazed audiences because of the song amazing use of different beats plus it was also noted for its music video as it was shot entirely on one tape and after they had added in a few efiting techniques and they were finished, on youtube alno it has had over 318 million views.. Another famous music video was done by the Beatles, this was called "Strawberry Fields Forever" this was recorded in 1967 and again was a huge success getting well over 1 million views on youtube.
List of Music Video Stations
• 40 TV
• Alt TV
• BET
• bpm:tv
• Bubble Hits
• C4
• Channel O
• Channel [V]
• Channel [U]
• CMC-TV
• CMC
• CMT • Fly Music
• Fuse TV
• Gospel Music Channel
• GAC
• IMF
• Juice TV
• Kerrang! TV (heavy metal)
• MAD (Music All Day)
• MCM
• MTV
• Much Music
• Music 24 • NME TV
• PMC
• Q TV
• Spirit
• TMF
• Tempo TV
• The Box
• The Tube
• TVU
• VH1
• VIVA
• Worship
A music video is a means of promoting a song which a band has made. Most music videos have the artist in the video as it is their song and this would help promote the artist as well as the song. A prime example of this promotional achievement would be Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson has the world record for the most copies of an album sold. This album of course was called “Thriller”. “Thriller” the album had cost $750,000 just to make. Jackson himself had written some of the songs in the album including “Beat It” and “Billie Jean”, but his most successful song was Thriller. The song thriller was recorded during April up to November in 1982. For the first year the song had not sold much as the last album “Off the Wall”. In recent years music videos had been quite successful due to the new release of the music channel “MTV” which was released in 1982.
Promotion
The promotion of the song is all in the music video, as this is how people will remember the song by the video. This is called music representation. Music representation is a visual format of what the song is about, this could be lots of different formats as this depends on how the director sees and feels about the song.
Extension of Outlets
The extension of outlets means where the song will be played, for example the most obvious place for a music video MTV. The extension of outlets is basically where about the song will be advertised. Some of the most obvious choices are MTV, VH1, and TMF but a lot of artists will also put their song on internet video sites such as YouTube. These again are ways of advertising to the target audience. In turn this makes the audience want to buy the song and it will be waiting for them on places like I-tunes or possible be able to download it off of your phone.
Extension of Income
One of the tags which comes with a music video is an extension of income because the advertisement will get advertise the artist and the song which in turn will make more people buy the album or single which then causes the album to get re-noticed and so therefore begins to sell more copies. As I said earlier Michael Jacksons “Thriller done this well as the song was out for a year but then when the music video was made it became the world’s biggest selling album to date. The money is also used to recuperate money lost from making the video.
Links to Film or TV
Some artists will work together with films and TV programs to make more of an advertisement. When Transformers was released the rock band Linkin Park joined forces with the film and allowed their song to be played this in turn giving them more advertisement. Other artists may wish to advertise through programs such as the X factor.
MTV
As I said earlier music videos were created as an advertising purpose, the biggest of these advertising would be MTV or Music Video Television. MTV’s history began in 1977 when Warner Cable (A division of Warner Communications) decided to make the first 2 way cable TV system; one of these channels was a music channel which featured footage from artist’s concerts. The original idea for MTV came from a man called Robert Pittman, Pittman had tested his idea by going on air on a show called “Pop clips” which he had produced and hosted. People had really enjoyed it and thought that this was a good show. Pittman then later became chief executive officer of MTV Networks.
First Music Video
The first music video was not shown on TV it was shown in a concert while the band were performing. The idea of Music videos have been around since 1894 this was when the first music video was created. It was created by Edward Masen and Joe Stern who came up with the idea of promoting their song by using still images, they done this on one of their songs “The Little Lost Child”. The idea was that when they were playing their song they would have a series of still images being shown. Which is exactly what they did, they had the images of a blurred kitten this was considered to be the first music video. An example of a music video before the release of MTV was “A Hard Day’s Night” by the Beatles. This was not just a music video they also released a feature film with the same title as the song.
History of Music Video Channels
MTV was what made music videos big but it wasn’t the very first music video program, The first music video program was in Sydney, Australia. The show was called “sounds” and was released in 1974 and was hosted by the former radio DJ Graham Webb. The show was aimed at mainly teenagers at was aired every week on Sydney's ATN-7 on Saturday mornings, the show was initially called “sounds unlimited” but then got shortened to just “sounds”. The host of the show Webb was running out of music videos and so turned to Russell Mulcahy a newsroom staffer, Webb asked him to make some new material by recording some video to go with some of the music. Mulcahy had had so much success from these videos that he quit his job, and from his success he began to direct music videos for Stylus, Marcia Hines, Hush and AC/DC. Mulcahy had some early success and so moved to Britain after already directing songs for XTC’s “Making Plans for Nigel” and The Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star” which became the first music video to be played on MTV.
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops is one of the longest running shows on the BBC and was also one of the most successful. Top of The Pops started to air in the late 1970’s and then got moved to Thursday’s on BBC 1 and then got moved to Fridays in 1996 before being finally moved to Sundays in 2005.
Some of the first most succesful music video's
Some of the first most succesful music videos were in the 70's. one of which was made by Queen this was "Bohemian Rhapsody" this amazed audiences because of the song amazing use of different beats plus it was also noted for its music video as it was shot entirely on one tape and after they had added in a few efiting techniques and they were finished, on youtube alno it has had over 318 million views.. Another famous music video was done by the Beatles, this was called "Strawberry Fields Forever" this was recorded in 1967 and again was a huge success getting well over 1 million views on youtube.
List of Music Video Stations
• 40 TV
• Alt TV
• BET
• bpm:tv
• Bubble Hits
• C4
• Channel O
• Channel [V]
• Channel [U]
• CMC-TV
• CMC
• CMT • Fly Music
• Fuse TV
• Gospel Music Channel
• GAC
• IMF
• Juice TV
• Kerrang! TV (heavy metal)
• MAD (Music All Day)
• MCM
• MTV
• Much Music
• Music 24 • NME TV
• PMC
• Q TV
• Spirit
• TMF
• Tempo TV
• The Box
• The Tube
• TVU
• VH1
• VIVA
• Worship
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