Introduction to Music Video: Blog tasks

 1) What are the key conventions of music video?

.Movement

.Dance routine

.Camerawork.


2) What is intertextuality? the relationship between texts, especially literary ones.

3) When did music videos first become a major part of the music industry?Although the origins of the music video date back to musical short films that first appeared in the 1920s. 

4) What launched in 1981 and why were music videos an important part of the music industry in the 1980s and 1990s? Music videos and MTV was introduced to people.

5) How do audiences tend to access and watch music videos today? They use YouTube and stream on platforms across the internet on smartphones and internet acessing devices.

Extension tasks

Read this Guardian feature asking whether YouTube is good or bad for the music industry. What is your opinion on this crucial question? In my opinion YouTube is very beneficial to artists as they provide  music to the audiences and increases a person who creates musics popularity and helps make revenue.

Read this Guardian feature on how videogames are now more important than music videos for breaking new artists. Do you agree videogames are now more influential than music videos?

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