Introduction to Music Video: Blog tasks
1) What are the key conventions of music video? Fast paced movement and camera and editing 2) What is intertextuality? Intertextuality is when one media text references another media text – through genre, conventions, mise-en-scene or specific cultural references 3) When did music videos first become a major part of the music industry? Music videos were always major they were just made as little films 4) What launched in 1981 and why were music videos an important part of the music industry in the 1980s and 1990s? MTV was launched in 1981 as a platform for music videos and the first music channel on television. 5) How are music videos distributed and watched in the digital age? In 2005 YouTube was introduced and that's where many artists and upcoming,starting artists would upload their new material.Nowadays self promotion is much more common.