Blog 3: Music Video Technologies
- luhoward
- Dec 12, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 18, 2024
⬇️This is a poster I made on Canvas to present the music medium technology developments over time.
She was now talking about videos. Though the first video camera was invented in 1918, the first commercial music video on MTV was Video Killed the Radio Star, published 70 years later.
Even though this is the first commercial music video, it is surprising that a fair amount of VFX was already used inside.
The first "Music video" with a mean of a video with music was released in 1894, long before the video camera was invented.
I am pretty sure there aren’t any official Little Lost Child music videos on the Internet since Edward B. Marks decided to create some weird entity that projects light onto a screen with still images and performs the performances live.
1944 was the year that Jamming the Blues, a music film, got put onto the big screen. The video is shot with multiple camera angles, so it arguably is one of the earliest music videos in which you don't have to go to a huge manufactured machine and look into it in order to see a very short clip of video.
After television was invented in the 1950s, it was common for bands such as the Beatles to produce music videos and shoot them on TV. Yellow Submarine, one of the most famous songs ever, got its mv released in the 1960s and was a hit.
Later, in 1981, America established MTV, which helped artists produce more music videos. Michael Jackson got his thriller MV made at MTV, and the production had a budget of around a million us dollars.
Now, the price of using technology provides more possibilities for creating better music videos and large-budget music video productions.
I am also a huge fan of Rammstein. Take a look at the MV for one of their famous songs: Ich Will.
The fact that they made 32 Big Bugget MVs is just mental, and the number of MVs is still growing. And they got helicopters running for shooting, which is just so cool. This was made in the early 2000s, when MVs were so heavily weighted, and the trend drove Rammstein into an MV-focused band.
However, with the emergence of social media, MV is not weighted as it was in the previous days.
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