A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. - wikipediaA commercial videotape featuring a performance of a popular song, often through a stylized dramatization by the performers with lip-synching and special effects. - dictionary.com
A videotaped
performance of a recorded popular song, usually accompanied by dancing and
visual images interpreting the lyrics - dictionary
An early form
of music video were films which included one song, these took place during the
1940's and were named the Soundies. Most of these were of jazz songs, they were
mainly just bands on a film set bandstand. Soundies were created for the
Panoram Jutebox, these were located in restaurants or bars and there was a
screen to watch the clip whilst the music was played. In the 1950's over
1000 short music films were made as 'television fillers' between programmes, by
Snader Telescriptions. From this films that features musical performances. for example
Elvis became increasingly popular.
Music videos
began to be created in the 1960's and 70's, videos were filmed for music
programmes such as Top of The Pops. Eventually MTV was launched so that music
videos became available 24 hours a day. MTV is still dominant today and reaches
to over 320million television sets, over 90 countries in 5 continents. since
the arrival of YouTube, downloading vidoes of the internet has occurred,
YouTube and downloading are particular threats to MTV and the music video industry.
The first ever actual music video to be produced was 'Video Killed The Radio
Star' by The Buggles. - I this as pretty ironic as the creation of music
videos, and TV reduced the audience to the radio.
Music videos
are now the centre of marketing popular music.
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