Introduction to Music Video: Blog tasks

 1) What are the key conventions of music video?

The most general codes and conventions within music videos include: The style (performance, concept, narrative)The camera. The editing techniques (transitions, fast, slow)

2) What is intertextuality?

Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text, either through deliberate compositional strategies such as quotation, allusion, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche or parody, or by interconnections between similar or related works perceived by an audience or reader of the text.

3) When did music videos first become a major part of the music industry?

While musical short films were popular as soon as recorded sound was introduced to theatrical film screenings in the 1920s, the music video rose to prominence in the 1980s when American pay-TV channel MTV based its format around the medium.

4) What launched in 1981 and why were music videos an important part of the music industry in the 1980s and 1990s?

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5) How are music videos distributed and watched in the digital age?

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