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A hard day's night
This is the date in which this film was realeased and it was a comedy film on the life of beatles and this film promoted the artists and was a financial success for the beatles help push their carrer and changed the way of music videos as they made a film instead of a video to their music tracks -
Help! (Another example of films made for the beatles)
Link to the promo Yet again they made another short feature to promote their new album 'help' -
The introduction of MTV
MTV website MTV is a Tv channel which first introduced music videos and was the first place to find music however over time technological convergence has made the channel less needed as people use either Vimeo or YouTube. The first video put on MTV was Video killed the radio star, by Buggles. -
Thriller - Michael Jackson
The music videoThis music video used for Michal Jacksons thriller made music videos longer than the usual 2-5 mins by making a mini movie within it and to this day this is one of the most expensive music videos ever. -
Take on me
The music video This music video was the fist music video to include animation and lead to future animations like Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer. This music video had a black and white comic style animation which flicked between that and real footage shot. The whole video took 16 weeks to complete and it showed how much effort can be put into a great music video which raised the expectations of future videos. -
Sledgehammer -Peter Gabriel
The music video This music video made a new alternate to music videos as this one experimented on stop animition which consisted on taking many photos one by one then editing them on a timeline, -
YouTube
YouTube YouTube is the main place for videos to this day and 38% of the videos are music videos in which the artists have there on channels 'VEVO'.
