History of music TV

1. MUSIC TELEVISION
A VERY SHORT HISTORY

2. History
Laying music to film dates back to 1923, short films
that were built around music - Disney also did this.
Tony Bennett was filmed walking along
The Serpentine in Hyde Park, London as his
recording of "Stranger in Paradise" played; this film
was distributed to and played by UK and US
television stations. According to the
Internet Accuracy Project, disk jockey-singer J.P. "
The Big Bopper" Richardson was the first to coin the
phrase "music video", in 1959.

3. History
One of the earliest performance clips in 1960s pop
was the promo film made by The Animals for their
breakthrough 1964 hit "House Of The Rising Sun.
In 1964 The Beatles cemented their newfound
international fame by starring in their first feature film
A Hard Day's Night, directed by Richard Lester.
By the time The Beatles stopped touring in late 1966
their promotional films, like their recordings, had
become highly sophisticated.
Monochrome 1966 clip for Bob Dylan's "
Subterranean Homesick Blues" filmed by
D. A. Pennebaker.

4. History
In the UK The Kinks made one of the first real "plot"
promo clips for a song. For their single "Dead End
Street" (1966).
More Promo clips were made by artists such as: The
small faces, The Troggs, Procal Haram, The Doors,
The Rolling stones, David Bowie, Pink Floyd...
Queen’s Bohemian Rhopsody made a video entirely
shot and edited on video and was shown on Top Of
the Pops.
Music videos became common place........

5. MTV
In 1981 MTV launches.
In 1983 NBC viewers are able to watch music videos
on Friday Night Videos.
1984: First MTV music video awards.
1996: 24 hr music videos launched. Other MTV
channels launched.
Music box launched by Sony, online streaming of
music videos.

6. Music Television and
Reality Television.
Television has always relied on the
documentary format.
The Docu Soap developed into television.
Element of reality, ordinary people, and
perhaps the idea of competition.
Why so Popular?

7. Reality Television
Are people watching reality television because of an
over saturation of reality scheduling?
Why is there such a saturation of reality television?
How has new technology aided the genre?
What is different about the audience of reality
television programmes?
Why do you watch reality Telelvision programmes?

8. The Talent Contest
Opportunity Knocks was an early example, acts of
varying levels of mediocrity and at times absurdity
were showcased.
Technology was limited to the ‘clapometer’.
An immediate interaction with the audience in todays
talent shows.
Humiliation.

9. Complete the handout using the following words:
Largest
Week
Encourages
Accepted
Unedited
Interest
Longevity
Intense
12
sometimes 24
Reality Stock
Identify
Traits
Accessible
Recurring
Live
Cliffhangers
Preview
Passive
Status
Tabloids
Conflict
Conversation
previous week

10. Docu-Soap Reality Television
Soaps account for the largest audience
percentage week on week.
Reality television maintains and encourages
a core loyal audience that tunes in nightly.
The structure is accepted and understood.
Offer a live seemingly unedited version of
events.
Programme makers know that soaps
interest audiences and have longevity.
Reality television offers an intense viewing
experience, 12 weeks of coverage allowing
sometimes 24 hours viewing.
Docu soaps add the element of reality for
audiences, that little bit more than soaps.
Offer similar easy to identify stock
characters.
Constructs representations of personalities
that are easy to identify. Selects traits in
contestants before they go on to the show.
Easily accessible, viewers do not need to
watch every one, if a recurring story is
covered the show will revert back to it.
Viewers are offered ample opportunity to
keep up with events, live shows, internet
streaming, nightly installments.
Cliffhangers are used within episodes to
maintain interest and viewers.
A preview of the events of the previous
week is shown, offered to grip audiences.
Escapist documentary - encourages a
passive audience, not challenging
reinforcing and upholding the staus quo.
Reality television causes an audience ‘buzz’.
Programmes are analysed in the tabloids
and become topical in general conversation
Select jobs and locations that contain
interest, or areas of conflict or humour.
Includes tasks and topics of conversation to
instigate discussions/tensions/rivalries.

11. Docu-Soap Reality Television
Soaps account for the largest audience
percentage week on week.
Reality television maintains and encourages
a core loyal audience that tunes in nightly.
The structure is accepted and understood.
Offer a live seemingly unedited version of
events.
Programme makers know that soaps
interest audiences and have longevity.
Reality television offers an intense viewing
experience, 12 weeks of coverage allowing
sometimes 24 hours viewing.
Docu soaps add the element of reality for
audiences, that little bit more than soaps.
Offer similar easy to identify stock
characters.
Constructs representations of personalities
that are easy to identify. Selects traits in
contestants before they go on to the show.
Easily accessible, viewers do not need to
watch every one, if a recurring story is
covered the show will revert back to it.
Viewers are offered ample opportunity to
keep up with events, live shows, internet
streaming, nightly installments.
Cliffhangers are used within episodes to
maintain interest and viewers.
A preview of the events of the previous
week is shown, offered to grip audiences.
Escapist documentary - encourages a
passive audience, not challenging
reinforcing and upholding the staus quo.
Reality television causes an audience ‘buzz’.
Programmes are analysed in the tabloids
and become topical in general conversation
Select jobs and locations that contain
interest, or areas of conflict or humour.
Includes tasks and topics of conversation to
instigate discussions/tensions/rivalries.

12. Why does reality television raise questions of
authenticity?
Is it really real?
Is the term ‘reality’ television the correct
terminology?
Which of the reality television programmes do you
think is the most authentic?
Authenticity

13. Reality Tv
What makes up reality TV? Describe it.
The X Factor has become a brand in itself.
What are all the places that an audience can access
the X Factor.
How Voyeuristic is the X Factor when compared to
other people.
‘Almost Overnight Reality TV has become the
mainstay of popular culture.....It is a soap opera
come to llife.’

14. Audiences have a pro-active role in that they vote for
contestants, making them feel active. However, stories
and characters are shaped by producers.
Contestant
Audience Producers

15. Pop music - Authenticity and Adorno
`popular music , which produces stimuli we are here
investigating, is usually characterised by its
difference from serious music....... The structure of
popular music is standardised, even where an
attempt is made to circumvent standardisation.’
‘Serious music, for comparative purposes, may thus
be characterised .........nothing corresponding to this
can happen in popular music. In popular music,
position is absolute. Every detail is substitutable, it
serves its function only as a cog in a machine.’

16. X factor Authenticity
‘Pivotal in this respect is the display of emotion and
the consequent promise of intimacy with those on
the screen’.
In the auditions, did we believe we were watching
stars?
How does the programme draw on realist codes
that might normally be seen in documentary?

17. Realist Aesthetic
TV cameras capture authenticity with the ‘shaky
camera’ technique. This technique creates a sense
of intimacy between the audience and the ‘talent.’
Because we follow the construction of the star from
ordinary person to famous ‘idol’, we are left with a
sense of knowing the star - we see them becoming
the star.’

18. X Factor
Reality television is in part a response to a ‘cultural’
crisis in the concept of the real.
Are the stars in the X factor true stars, are they
authentic?
How does the programme try to make the audience
believe that the ‘stars’ are authentic.
What do they do in the way the programme is
constructed and stylistically?

19. X Factor
Is the programme its own status of visual evidence.
Is the X Factor Voyeuristic.
How authentic is the programme and why?
What does the element of competition add to this
programme and to other reality television
programmes.

20. Codes and Conventions
Analyse a reality/competition show and tell me
what the codes and conventions are.
Think about - style, colour, sound, editing,
techniques............