In 1894, sheet music publishers Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern hired electrician George Thomas and others to promote sales of their song "The Little Lost Child" Using a magic lantern, Thomas projected a series of still images on a screen simultaneous to live performances. This would become a popular form of entertainment known as the illistrated song, the first step toward music video. This was the beginning of the musi video history.
In 1902 the phonoscene era began- The phonoscene was a forerunner of sound film. It combined a chronophone sound recording with a chronograph film shot with actors lip-synching to the sound recording. The recording and film were synchronized by a mechanism patented by Leon Gaumont in 1902. The first phonoscènes were presented by Gaumont in 1902 in France. This allowed artists to now lipsink to a song and then show there songs.
In 1926, with the arrival of "talkies" many musical short films were produced. A talkie was a short film which had music over the top, this is where the start of Music videos began. It meant that people could start to make things that relate to the song and play them at the same time.
Another form of early music video is called a promotional video, this was created in the early 1940's it was called a visual jukebox. This would usually be a band on stage, many of these were made and usually for jazz music. Once these were up and going many different sections of film wanted to do it, such as comedians, torch singers and dancers.
In 1981, MTV went on air, this was the first ever channel which was based solely on music, hence the name Music Television.
This channel went on to revolutionize the music industry and became an influential source of pop culture and entertainment in the United States and other parts of the world, including Europe, Asia and Latin America, which all have MTV-branded channels. They all have there own different channels on which relate to the culture of the country.
In the early days of MTV it was used for basic videos of short music with background images. As people could see this had potential people started to invest money into it and then people started to make cutting-edge videos. In the 1980s, MTV was instrumental in promoting the careers of performers such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince and Duran Duran, whose videos played in heavy rotation.
For the last two decades of the 20th century, the music industry rotated along the axis of MTV. The company represented a direct line into the hearts and minds of music consumers around the world, and their main form of expression was music video. This was when the music videos really became popular, and have ever since.
When MTV launched in August 1981 and blasted “Video Killed the Radio Star” through American households, it represented the ambitions of a company who wanted to significantly influence popular culture. It succeeded in a big way, earning millions of pounds. It remains a critical part of the music industry by leveraging music videos to help flesh out the image of acts as diverse as Michael Jackson and Green Day, Guns n’ Roses and 2Pac.
It was the digital revolution in the late 90s that really put the pressure on the entire music industry as it was. Music videos, which primarily served as an advertisement for record sales, feared losing their pillars of support as the big labels worried about declining CD sales as a result of availability of music online, for free.
Technological developmentsOver the past 5 or 6 years, it is fair to say that technology has increased greatly, this has had a massive effect on the music industry. I believe that the advance in technology has effected the music industry in a very positive way. It has allowed artist to increase the standard of not only the music itself but also the music video.
Not only has it allowed the standard to increase it also has made new places for artist to publish their music. For example, Youtube,
Youtube has become one of the biggest online sites for where people view music from.
Many artist are found on Youtube, for example, Conor Maynard has become a world wide star and it was all down to youtube.
This channel went on to revolutionize the music industry and became an influential source of pop culture and entertainment in the United States and other parts of the world, including Europe, Asia and Latin America, which all have MTV-branded channels. They all have there own different channels on which relate to the culture of the country.
In the early days of MTV it was used for basic videos of short music with background images. As people could see this had potential people started to invest money into it and then people started to make cutting-edge videos. In the 1980s, MTV was instrumental in promoting the careers of performers such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince and Duran Duran, whose videos played in heavy rotation.
For the last two decades of the 20th century, the music industry rotated along the axis of MTV. The company represented a direct line into the hearts and minds of music consumers around the world, and their main form of expression was music video. This was when the music videos really became popular, and have ever since.
When MTV launched in August 1981 and blasted “Video Killed the Radio Star” through American households, it represented the ambitions of a company who wanted to significantly influence popular culture. It succeeded in a big way, earning millions of pounds. It remains a critical part of the music industry by leveraging music videos to help flesh out the image of acts as diverse as Michael Jackson and Green Day, Guns n’ Roses and 2Pac.
It was the digital revolution in the late 90s that really put the pressure on the entire music industry as it was. Music videos, which primarily served as an advertisement for record sales, feared losing their pillars of support as the big labels worried about declining CD sales as a result of availability of music online, for free.
Technological developmentsOver the past 5 or 6 years, it is fair to say that technology has increased greatly, this has had a massive effect on the music industry. I believe that the advance in technology has effected the music industry in a very positive way. It has allowed artist to increase the standard of not only the music itself but also the music video.
Not only has it allowed the standard to increase it also has made new places for artist to publish their music. For example, Youtube,
Youtube has become one of the biggest online sites for where people view music from.
Many artist are found on Youtube, for example, Conor Maynard has become a world wide star and it was all down to youtube.
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