The History of Music Videos

I"m taking a break from the MV History Genesis to get you excited about music videos. Many famous directors got their start making music videos and I'm going to share some of their best work today. Fun fact, the following films were directed by people who started their career with music videos:     Spike Jonze     David Fincher     Marc Webb     This is a fresh list of some of the most popular directors today, each with their own versatile style and approach to film making. While Marc Webb has surface-level meaning, he understands an audience and knows how to entertain. David Fincher, perhaps my favorite director of our generation, is dark with serious layers of meaning under every frame. Spike Jonze is a whacky and intellectual director with a good eye for actors and an ability to make a score into a movie. For those who aren't familiar with David Fincher, he also directed The Social Network, The Curious Case of B...

So this is the History of Music Videos Blog. It's basically a collection of essays that will one day be collected and published.  This book is dedicated to the artistry of music videos. It is an often-overlooked medium, as many videos are vapid commercials for the musician. But we are going to take a look at the artistry involved in creating them and how they have influenced film, television and culture over the last forty years. This book serves to celebrate collaborations between directors and performers, inspect the techniques used to make the videos, and certain videos' impact on culture and media.  The Beginning, a brief overview,  1890's -  Thomas Edison and the Lumiere brothers are credited with inventing the motion film and the projectors used to watch them. In fact it wasn't Edison whose hands were on the invention, it was William K.L. Dickson who Edison hired to run the team that would make the first Strip Kinetiscope. Kino - movement ...