Music videos

Music videos have become very prominent since the 1970s, and one music video that really intrigues me is Norwegian rock band A-ha’s “Take on Me”. Released in 1985, “Take on Me” was a huge hit for A-ha, although the band failed to create future songs with similar popularity. Even though the band was only relevant for a short period of time, their song is generally considered to be one of the biggest hits of the 1980s. The genre of the song was new wave, which was popular at the time, and the instrumentation

The development of music videos throughout many years has changed rapidly due to the relationship between media forms and platforms of different media kind of texts. Some issues in contemporary music videos are from the evolution of new technologies, social media and politics. Thus, artists throughout time have taken advantage of music videos in order to use it as a site for debates about politics of representation. Nowadays the majority of music videos are transforming and turning into short films

The music video I’ve chosen for my music video analysis essay is “The Suburbs”. “The Suburbs” was released 1 June 2010 by the Canadian indie-rock band known as Arcade Fire and was a single from the album The Suburbs. What’s cool about this music video is that the video footage used for the song is just scenes taken from a short film called “Scenes from the Suburbs.” “The Suburbs” revolves around a group of teens. At first these teens are riding their bikes and playing in what seems to be some suburbs

Me!Me!Me! is a music video and animated short that was created for the Japan Animator Expo in 2014, but was released in the US in 2015 through Vimeo with English subtitles. The song in the video was made by the electronic music artist Teddyloid feat. Daoko, a Japanese singer. The audience of this video would be all fans of anime and electronic music, i.e. presumably young people who proactively use electronic devices. The video is set in three main sequences, each revolving around the main character

Portrayal of gender, sex and sexuality in music videos Over the years, the music industry keeps growing larger and larger. Every year there are new artists from multiple genres of music being found and recognized. With new people in the industry comes new or more ways of expressing their music. Other than using their lyrics, creating a music video to go along with their new song is another way to capture the artists desired audience’s attention. Music videos are a great tactic for musicians to draw

members in music videos, with specific reference to Fergie's music video MILF $ and Michael Buble's music video Close your Eyes. Stuart Price wrote that representation is "the way in which ideas, objects, people, groups and life-forms are depicted by the mass media" and "is the method used by the mass media to create meanings." In other words, representation is the mediation of visual and technical codes to construct a certain depiction of an aspect of reality. Since the first music videos in the 1970's

Analysis of Music Video Aphex Twin – Come to Daddy This Aphex Twin video is certainly one of the most dissimilar music videos that I have studied. It intertwines elements of different genres, to create a video so different to reality; it shocked the nation when released. The director, Chris Cunningham, wanted to make an impact with this video which he did with great style and distinction. Story/Narrative The video starts with quite a gentle and sombre feel

Music video evaluation This is a group project which was to create any type of music video for a client. First we had to contact a band, Byron contacted someone he knew which in the end didn’t go through so after a few weeks we was back to square one. We then started contacting other bands and artist which we should have really done at the start of the project. We did get a group willing to make a music video with us. However this process took much longer than it should of. After contacting the

Music composed for television generate another realm of modes and codes that differ even from the coding within film. Television has the opportunity to utilise music as an instrument for supporting narratives within television series and as means for marketing through commercials. Blaine Allan, explores the relationship between music and television within his journal article, Music Cinema, Music Video, Music Television. The main focal point of this resource is the function of visual aspects within

loves is a song preformed by Macklemore and produced by his best friend Ryan Lewis. The bring in an aspect that you almost never hear in hip-hop music today and is usually condemned to most hip-hop artist. Same loves bring a twist and a great example of that is the music video and the cover art for the song. From beginning to start of the song and video it presents the life that two men of the same sex. Same love depicts how strong the same sex are through all of the struggles they have to go through