Music Videos Through The Eras
Ben Bernie - Sweet Georgia Brown 1925

• Camera is mid length and stays still
• Audio is rough as it was muffled
• No singing

Bessie Smith - St. Louis Blues 1929

• Camera is moving around the room and going from scene to scene
• The camera is also mostly on the woman who is singing
• Audio was clearer 

Elvis Presley- Jailhouse Rock (1957)

• The camera is constantly moving with Elvis Presley. Everywhere Elvis moves the camera follows.
• Audio quality improves
• Video is still black and white

Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues(1975)

• The music sped up quickly
• The video is simplistic 
• No lip syncing

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever (1966)

• Video quality has improved as it is now in colour
• Audio seems the within quality
• More effects on the video
• More props within the video music.

Queen Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)

• Audio is much more improved
• Video effects are used
• Props are used to change how they look within the video
• In the beginning the lighting is low but when the video the continues the lighting improves
• In the middle and the end it shows a live audience
• Much high standard of editing

Devo - Jocko Homo (1978)

• There is a spoken introduction
• Music is sung really fast
• You can barely understand what he is saying
• Video is low quality

The Buggles - Video Killed the Radiostar (1979)

• Video has got black and white mixed with colour 
• Camera is moving around a lot
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David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes (1981)

• Colour implemented everywhere
• Different scenes for the song
• Pictures are used to change the scene
• Video is very weird and unique so it was very different

Nirvana - Heart Spaced Box (1993)

• Twisted video meaning it is very strange but again unique in its own way
• The camera is zoomed in on the faces while they were singing

Spice Girls - Stop (1998)

• Lip syncing is on time
• Video quality is high and no faults within the video
• Dancing involved

Blink 182 - All the same things (2001)

• Making fun of other boy sounds
• Humorous video
• Black and white mixed with colour
• Camera was moving a lot

Future ft The Weeknd - Low Life (2016)

• Video quality at its highest 
• Swearing which is has come into music recently