Music Video History
Styles & Features
Music Visualisation & Digital Media
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It is a type of jukebox with video that became popular in the 1960s.
What is a Scopitone?
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When a music video is made essentially as a mini-film with a beginning, middle and end.
What is the narrative style of music video?
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When the moving images in a music video are disjointed from the song.
What is disjuncture?
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To sell records.
What is the point of a music video?
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An American music television show that first aired in 1952. Featured lip-synced performances.
What is American Bandstand?
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A technique employed to maintain a high ideas-per-minute rate.
What is the rapid shot feature?
200
Music videos that are less of a direct literal interpretation of a song. Can add extra meaning or apply the director's own spin.
What is amplification.
200
A music video featuring a group of models whose pale skin, heavy makeup, dark hair and seductive, rather robot-like expression follow the style of women in Patrick Nagel paintings.
What is Addicted to Love—Robert Palmer?
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A significant Australian music television show that launched in 1974. Hosted by Molly Meldrum.
What is Countdown?
300
Visual imagery to build ideas and emotion in the minds of the audience.
What are poetic images?
300
When the moving images tell the original story or communicate the intended meaning of a song.
What is illustration?
300
When one text makes reference to another.
What is intertextuality?
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1981.
When did MTV launch?
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A music video that lacks a beginning, middle and an end, or a music video that relies heavily on imagery for effect, or a music video that is totally abstract.
What is a non-narrative music video?
400
An academic term used to describe the notion of consumers becoming participants, contributors or producers in media.
What is participatory culture?
400
The Brisbane band that was responsible for "the greatest puppet chase ever filmed."
Who is Hey Geronimo?
500
One of the first songs that was accompanied by a modern promotional film clip. Recorded in one shot.
What is Subterranean Homesick Blues?
500
Imagery to which the viewer applies extratextual framing to determine the meaning and understand the film.
What are symbolic images?
500
The academic who coined the illustration, amplification and disjuncture theories of music visualisation.
Who is Andrew Goodwin?
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A 1985 music video that intertextually referenced Marilyn Monroe's performance of Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
What is Madonna—Material Girl?