This song by Gus Visser is not considered to be an official music video but however it was the first song ever recorded on video. it was recorded in june 1925. The song was made for comedic purposes.
The music video was one of the first that was in colour. This was exclusive because there was not many videos that were in colour and that at the time it was very expensive. Another thing that was included in the music video was that it included a lot of close ups of David Bowie and him playing the guitar. The close ups include the different things that are in the recording studio. This song was introduced from a real life viewpoint as the space race was going on at this time; the moon landing took place five days after this song was released. In the video there is also some effects which go across the screen which gave the effect that this was a old video.
Michael Jacksons Thriller was one of the first music videos to have a story arch to it. At the time Michael Jackson’s Thriller was broadcasted world wide on MTV. This song was revolutionary for the time. The music video was the first of its kind in story arch and having a different sort of genre to it. During this time a lot of music videos built up a lot of revenue and the majority of them didn’t have a big budget. Michael Jackson the person who sung the song was a performance artist that means he would sing and dance in the music video. The different types of camera in this music video means that it wouldn’t just be focused on Michael Jackson it would be focused on the backup dancers that are in this music video. For the music video of Thriller they took it to themselves to hire choreography and different types of makeup artists so then the audience could really have that immersion that they were actually in a horror based movie.
The song is largely known for its music video as begins with all the members of Queen dressed in women's clothing. This is because the start was a parody of the ITV’s Coronation Street, as the lead singer, Freddy Mercury is dressed similar to the character Bet Lynch (with a black wig) and other members of Queen being dressed as other characters. Once Mercury opens what seems like a storage room, the light then flickers with the scene moving toward the room with the line “I’ve fallen on love.” The storage room then appears to be a coal mine, as the members of Queen return back to their normal clothes (with Mercury being topless). Mercury then goes behind a white glowing box, to later reveal him sitting on top a stone playing a copper pipe. More people join in with him to perform a choreographic composition, which may be an inspiration a ballet called The Afternoon of a Faun. Once the segment was over, the line “But life still goes on” and it return back to the Coronation Street set, Mercury then walks up the stages and the scene then cuts straight back to the coal mine. The music video very much performance based with Mercury doing nearly all the singing with Roger Taylor joining in a few times. The video is quite artistic as it blends and mix parody and homage together at once, with comedy and fun and a mix of dramatic scenery, while not having it feel odd or strange. The song would become successful around the world, but not in North America, as it was banned on MTV in the US. Though the music video was popular in UK, due to the fun references and was taken as a joke.
The music video had cost Duran Duran a total of £1,000,000. Which was very expensive for a single music video at its time and was filmed in the “007 studio” at Pinewood Studios. The video was meant to be a teaser of an upcoming movie, that was never made, however the would become very success as it was named the Best British Video at the 1985 BRIT Awards. The video starts by establishing the setting to display a dystopian world, it would then cut to a bald and pale animatronics breathing fire. In the background the Wild Boy song is playing, which revealed to be from a television with the main singer from Duran Duran, Simon Le Bon singing. Later into the video, Simon Le Bon is hanging on a spinning windmill with his head being dipped in to the water with each rotation. There is choreographed dancing from the extras, as they display a number of dangerous stunts. Toward the end of the video, Le Bon is freed from the spinning windmill and is later shown victorious as he is seen with the other band members of Duran Duran with paper strips falling from the sky. The music video is highly inspired by Mad Max, particularly the film Road Warrior. As the clothing that Le Bon was wearing heavily mirrors that of Mad Max’s, which was played by Mel Gibson. The video is performance based as Le Bon is consistently seen singing even when strapped to the spinning windmill and having his head dunk, however it is also narrative based as well. As there is a story within the video, as it shows Le Bon being captured and tortured however is then later freed from the pale minions.
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From the title of the song, Lazarus, relates closely to death as it is said in the Bible that Jesus had brought him back to life, after four days of remaining dead. This music video was released was released on 7 January 2016, which was three days before Bowie’s death. The video starts with Bowie lying down, being blindfolded with a cloth with two black buttons located where his eyes would be. The camera is pans out of the close up and reveals that his is lying on his death bed. The camera cuts to show the bottom of the bed with a pale woman out there, trying to reach out to him. It continues to film around him, as it moves from one side of the bed to the next. At the bottom of his bed, the woman is now gone, with a single high heel left behind. A cut is made which changes the set piece, when the lyric reads, “By the time I got to New York, I was living like a King”. As Bowie is standing up, wearing a black top with white stripes singing straight to the camera. Another cut is made returning back to him on previous set on his bed, he seems more active this time as he widen his arms, as if he were flying. The next scene shows him dramatically opening a fountain pen and trying to think what to write, this could his will or a letter. It later shows the pale girl from before, under his table. At the very last scene, he slowly shifts backwards to the wardrobe. It then cuts to black, as the video ends. The video is a conceptive and symbolic, as it is clear that it is based around death. As Bowie had intended it to be his “Swan song”, his gift to the world before he died. The setting is unsettling and small, which gives a claustrophobic feel to it. The colouring is dark and gloomy, as there are no bright or eye-catching colours. On top of this the lyrics of the song plays a large part of the tone of the video, with some that includes “look up here, I’m in heaven” and “I got nothing left to lost”. The music video had a unusual aspect ratio of 1:1, which is very strange as many popular music videos (and all videos in general) are normally filmed in something like a 16:9 ratio resembling a rectangle, rather than a square like this video.
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