2. Starting with animation Early animations done by Walt Disney- like fantasia and Warner Bros- who did works such as Looney tunes fashioned the animations around the music- thus creating music videos.
3. Musical’s and film Madonna’s material girl made in the 1980s was heavily influenced by musicals and musical films in the 30s and 50s. This was the same for Michael Jackson’s Thriller.
4. Visual innovation 1961- Rickey Nelson’s video held images from around the world mentioned in the Jerry Fuller song along with Nelson’s vocals. The monkeys and Beatles era helped create templates for music video conventions to build on.
5. Importance.... Beatles- strawberry fields forever, was a song that held the early conventions of music videos such as narrative and concepts. The kinks- dead end street-1966- Made one the first ‘plot’ promo clips.
6. Promo Television 1970s- Top of the pops was made. This was a promo from this period called Sparks ‘this town ain’t big enough for the both of us. Queen was also one of the first to create a proper music video of this era.
