The History of Music Videos

A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes.^[1] Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended 
to promote the sale of music recordings





Michael Jackson's Thriller is a 13-minute music video for the song of the name released on December 2, 1983. It was directed by John Landis, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Jackson.In December 2009, it was selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress along with 24 other films.It was the first, ever (and to this day, only) music video to be selected.The Registry titled Thriller as “the most famous music video of all time”. The coordinator of the National Film Preservation Board, who decides upon candidates for inclusion in the National Film Registry, Steve Legett, said “The time is right” for Thriller to be included, because of the death of Jackson that year.





The music video of Gangnam Style by recording artist Psy, was directed by Cho Soo-hyun. The music video was filmed in Seoul for 48 straight hours. The video was premiered on July 15, 2012.The music video was the first to hit 1 billion views on the video-sharing website YouTube and in June 2014 the video gained 2 billion views

Learning comment: From researching the history of music videos i have learnt that the huge development of video editing and special effects have made music videos more appealing also, being creative and out of the box can attract an audience. I found out that editing has had a massive improvement overtime and fast paced editing has made a difference to music videos because it can show more of the narrative.