The document discusses various aspects of the music industry including music videos, record labels, and music video directors. It provides details on the major record labels - Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music Entertainment. It also profiles three music video directors - Chris Applebaum, Shane Drake, and Jake Nava - and analyzes their directing styles and some of their notable music videos. The document concludes that researching the industry has provided useful information for creating and releasing a music video.

1. The Music Industry

2. Music Videos
• Music Videos are short films that incorporate a
specific song and imagery. This is primarily used
for promotional/creative resolutions.
• Modern music videos are created as a marketing
tool, encouraging fans of the video to buy the
single/album.
• They came into prominence in the 1980’s but
the origins of music videos date back much
further than this.

3. Record Labels
• A record label is a brand that is connected with the
marketing of music videos. Most frequently, a record
label manages such brands, as well as, coordinating the
production, distribution, promotion, application of
copyright on music videos, and maintaining contracts
between recording artists and their managers etc.
• Major Labels are the biggest, most successful record
label of the time, they are always changing. The big 3
labels since late 2011 are:

4. Warner Music Group
• This is the third largest business group and family of record
labels in the music industry, making it one of the big three.
• It was founded in 1958 as Warner Bros. Records. In 1971, the
name was changed to WEA, and in 2004, it was changed again to
WMG.
Many big artists are signed to this record label, including:
• Basshunter
• Green Day
• George Harrison
• Bruno Mars
• Dido, etc..

5. Universal Music Group
• UMG is a multinational music company. It is the largest of the big three
companies by its leading market share and its host of global
operations. It is exclusively owned subordinate of French media
conglomerate, Vivendi. It owns the music publishing
company, Universal Music Publishing Group.
• The company’s headquarters are based in Santa
Monica, California, United States and it was founded in 1934.
UMG supports a wide range of music artists including:
• Blink 182
• Bon Jovi
• Eminem
• Justin Bieber
• J-Lo
• Johnny Cash, and many more...

6. Sony Music Entertainment
• This is the second largest global recorded music company of the big
three record companies.
• It is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States
subordinate of Japan’s Sony Corporation.
• It was founded in 1929.
Some of the artists signed to this label include:
• Alicia Keys
• Avril Lavigne
• Beyoncé Knowles
• Britney Spears
• Glee
• Jimi Hendrix, etc…

7. Music Video Directors
• Three Music Directors that I have researched are:
Chris Applebaum Shane Drake Jake Nava

8. Chris Applebaum

10. His Style
Early on in his career, he seemed to work mainly with bands and
covered styles such as pop, rock, indie rock and hip hop. It was only in
2002 when the majority of artists he worked with were solo acts. In
this year he worked with Britney Spears on two of her hits which
became moderately successful.
He was also behind Rihanna’s song ‘Umbrella’ which became a No 1
hit immediately and made Rihanna into the immensely successful and
famous artist that she is today. He won an MTV Video of the Year
award for it. This was the first of Rihanna’s many singles that turned
her from teenage role model into a highly provocative act.
After this he went on to direct Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus and Selena
Gomez. These acts are firmly based within the pop genre.

11. Shane Drake

13. His Style
Like Applebaum, Shane Drake seemed to make his mark by
directing music videos by bands rather than solo artists at the
start of his career. He seemed to stick within the genre of Rock.
Unlike Applebaum, he still mainly directs bands or multiple solo
artists collaborating on the same song. He has also directed music
videos for other genres like; Pop, alternative hip hop and country.
He recently directed Kelly Clarkson’s hit ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’
(Stronger). This went platinum in Australia and gold in New
Zealand.

14. Jake Nava

16. His Style
• Jake Nava started directing music videos in the 1990’s. He didn’t
seem to stick within a genre, preferring to direct for all types of
music artists. The genres he filmed within the 1990’s included;
R’n’B, electronica, Pop and hip hop.
• He directed Beyoncé's No. 1 hit, ‘Crazy in Love’. This song took the
world by storm and propelled Beyoncé into superstardom. The
music video caused a lot of interest as Jay-Z was featured in it and
speculation was mounting as to whether they were a couple or not.
Their closeness in the video only encouraged the fan’s interest in
them. The video is widely recognised as one of her greatest and
most notable.
• After this success, Jake continued to work with Beyoncé on 5 more
of her songs, including ‘Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it)’ this also
gained worldwide recognition for the video. Many people believed
she was promoting female empowerment, while others felt it was
more the exploitation of women that it seemed to be endorsing.

17. From this:
• After completing this research into the music industry, I
feel that I have a greater understanding of it. For my
music video I will try to use similar techniques that
Applebaum, Drake and Nava have used that has made
their videos interesting and fresh and apply in to my
project.
• Researching the companies has helped me in that if I
were releasing this music video, I would know which
ones are the best for my artist and why.