This is my History of a music video presentation for A2 media studies

1. MUSIC VIDEO HISTORY
Fatima Waris

2. OSKAR FISCHINGER
1900-1967
Fischinger was a German - American,
Animator, Filmmaker and Painter. He made
musical animated films which could be
considered some of the first music videos.

3. Soundies were 3 minute musical films mostly made in Chicago, New York and
Hollywood. Soundies were made between 1940-1947 and were played on
jukeboxes (Music machines) .They included all classic genres.
This was the start to the revolution of the
nowadays music videos.
SOUNDIES

4. SCOPITONES
 Scopitones is a type of jukebox that was used to
watch music films.
 They were based of Soundies and were created at
the time of World War One.
 It was the first coin operated music machine.
 They were installed in night clubs, restaurants
bars and amusement parks.
These helped people know about the latest music
and what was going on at the time.

5. A HARD DAYS NIGHT
 It was created in 1964
 A black & white comedy film
 It was a short film that contained all their music tracks.
 The movie/film showed a few days in the lives of the boy band.
 The film they created had a financial
and critical success
 It lead to many influences such as spy
movies and other sci-fi and action packed
comedies.

6. QUEEN BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
 The Queen’s made the first promotional video which lead to a huge
success and created a lot of influence and other promotional videos
 It kick-started the musical industry and
revolutionised the way Music was advertised
 The video was aired on ‘Top Of The Pops’
and caught a lot of attention
 It had a short budgeting.
 This lead to many other hit music videos
and lead to nowadays advertising.

7. MTV
 MTV was launched in 1981
 The first video launched was ‘Video killed the Radio Star’ which was a
success
 With MTV’s success music videos became a new role in to music marketing
 The purpose of the channel was to play music videos were showed by
television characters known as "video jockeys’
 It was mainly targeted at young adults and teenagers

8. YOUTUBE
 YouTube was the first online video-sharing website
 The first YouTube video was titled Me at the zoo
 YouTube gained huge success straight away.
 It was then purchased by google
 People had uploaded more than 65,000 new videos and delivering 100
million video views per day
 It was easy for advertising and created profits for every few views