On December 1 1982 Thriller was released to critical and commercial success. A month later, on January 2 1983 Billie Jean was released as the album's second single; it follows Jackson's successful duet with Paul McCartney on "The Girl Is Mine". The Billie Jean music video was directed by Steve Barron.
Gus Visser and his singing duck is a 1925 American short musical comedy film staring Vaudeville performer Gus Visser. Initial release date was june 1925 and the video was one medium shot. Gus Visser is more of a comedy act than a singer so the first music video of time was only a parody.
The person in the video for this is an actor, nightclub performer and a ainging. For this video they used one still shot and you can see that there isn't quite enough shots per second because it is flickering throughtout. The song was featured in a musical named the same as the title of the song. It first came out in 1929 in Berlin.
This video shows Benny Goodman performing the song. They used different shots within this video. For example they use a close up on his hands when he is playing the piano. The Video is apart of a film called Hollywood Hotel. During this era they used big heavy cameras so it was difficult to move them so they did as little shots as possible and just kept it as a long shot of everyone or everything within the film.
The video is in black and white and it is a live video. The camera is still throughout the video but does take a long shot, medium shot and close up, it also pans in near the start of the video.
The whole video is in black and white. It is a live video because it is being performed. They use fade outs to change to the next scene. They also use panning out as they get a wider shot of everyone performing. A long shot is used throughout most of the video because it can easily fit all of the people performing in. They use a close up on the main singers face. They also use cuts to get to the next scene.
The video is in black and white throughout and doesn't start with the music straight away it starts with an audience and a man speaking to a women about the artists. When the music starts it is a long shot of the audience and the artists in the middle. Then when they start singing it goes to a medium shot on just the singers. It is a live video because they are in the video singing it and this is actually infront of an audience. They used a fade out to switch to a close up of the main singers face. They also use cuts when they change the object of the scene to be the audience below. The camera doesn't actually move during shots.
It is a live video performed in front of an audience. It starts off with a medium shot of the band on the stage with their instruments. The video then goes onto quick cuts to different scenes of the video with different shots including close ups and medium shots. The video pans left around the stage. They then go to a close up of the singer and fades into another shot. They use different kinds of transitions in the video to go onto another scene.
The complete video is in black and white throughout. The shot that it starts with is a long shot. The camera pans to the right to keep the artist in the shot. The camera follows the main object of the scene. It stays as a medium shot for a while then it goes onto a close up ad a long shot. The camera stays stationary.
A hard days night was the beatles was the first movie that they made, which involved music videos that had never been seen before with dialogue in between. They used all different music videos of their own and put them into one.
The first popular song to use thre phrase "heavy metal", which became the term for hard rock. This song was used in the movie easy rider and numerous films across the decades till the present day. This became the song related to motorcycles.
At the start of the video It is a close up of a piano and someones hands. It then goes onto a high angle shot above everyone in a club. It then goes back onto a close up of someones hands playing the piano. The music video for this song is a live video because they are performing the song on stage.
At the start of the music video it starts with a close up of the artists head. The lighting is on half of her face and it is all blacked out around her. There is then a medium shot of a dancer still blacked out all around her. It then goes onto a spot light and the dancer is roller skating with a long shot. The lighting is now getting greater.
The thriller music video was the number one music video in the 80's. The song came out on the 30th November 1982. Then the music video came out on December 2nd 1983 and the video was 13minutes long. It was directed by John Landis, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Jackson.
The song is about the terrible fear of alienation the people have, the fear of standing up for one thing. This was culture clubs biggest hit in the uk.
A track from ,Madonna's debut album, this song was written by Reggie Lucas. Lucas got a sense of what Madonna was all about and so he wrote this song to show her sensual side.
They use aspects of a live video because they are performing the song in the video. They are also using a green screen in some scenes behind the musicians. They use a variety of shots white include, long shot medium shot and POV shot. They have also used a story within the video with various settings so they camera isn't just in one room.
Take That is a British band that released the song back for good in 1995. It was written and produced by the lead singer of the band Gary Barlow. The music video was simple but now seen as ironic. It is shot in black and white and the video has a variation of camera shots and edits.
They use special effects at the beginning of the video as it is going through the clouds, at this is the music hasn't started. The musics starts playing 7seconds into the video. Green screens are also used as the girls are standing in the water. They do medium shots of all three of the artists before they aren't singing. Then they use special effects again as they go through all different settings. There is also a story in this music video about a break up. They different shots which include, longs shots, close up's, medium shots and they use a zoom in and out and fade in and out transitions.
The video firsts starts with a stationery camera filming one room which was a single long shot of the person in the room. They used special effects to moved the sofa in the first few minutes of the video. They also fit the lyrics in with the video for example the lyrics are 'you can't tell what magic spells' and he moves the sofa. He is also miming throughout the video.
In this video they are performing it because she is miming in the video and starts dancing. At the start everyone is in a class room and they are all in sync as the leave then brittany spears and her friends in the video start dancing out in the corridor. The camera pans out as they walk towards it, they use medium shots and long shots as they are dancing and close ups on the singer when she is lip syncing. They use fad in / outs and cuts as transitions.
When the video starts it is a couple in a lounge and the women is watching tv and the male comes in and changes it. He changes the channel to the actual music video of eminems my name is. It zooms into the tv to start playing the music video which eminem futures in himself. Eminem plays different characters within the video and it keeps switching back to the couple in the lounge to show that they are watching the tv which is the music video. They use close ups and medium shots mainly in the video. They also mainly just cut straight to the next scene.
The music video is a live video because the band are performing it but they also use clips from a film to help tell the story of the lyrics. They use long shots, close ups and medium shots. The video is in colour throughout. They also used a birds eye view shot and panning shots.
The video starts with a close up shot of the singer that stars in the video. The whole video is in colour. They use a green screen within the video as he is going through pictures. A green screen is also used as he is miming along to the song and there is pictures behind him. To change to the next scene they just use a cut. There is different scenes to the video and it is quite repetitive, as it repeats from the start of the video.
The video has got a narrative to it, also both of the artists feature in the video. The whole video is in colour. The artists also mime to the song. They have a range of shots which include close up, medium shot and long shot. They use cuts to get to the next scene and when the artist is on the roof the camera pans out to get a wider shot. In this video they pan the camera quite a lot to either gets a wider shot of the object in the shot, follow the object or move onto something else instead of cutting to another scene.
The whole video is in colour. The artist does not appear in this video at all which isn't normal for a music video. The whole video is dance and there is a story within it. The video starts by panning forward down a corridor to wear the dancers are and where the dance starts. They use cuts to get to the next scene. They use a medium shot on the main dancer where she is rubbing her hands down her face where then the homosexual flag is wiped on her face which is probably symbolising equality. They repeat the use of a panning shot. They use shots like, extreme close up, close up, medium shot and long shot.
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