Welcome...

...to studying music video - the blog of resources related to the BFI event of November 14 2006 and repeated on December 6, 2006

There are more posts than just those on this page...to see the stuff on student video work and examples shown at the event, click on the archives 'October 2006' lower down the page.

(Myspace, YouTube, The Music Biz (News Articles)

Myspace: A Music Industry Perspective
Music - Mark Evans
The Myspace Effect

"The Work Of Director...." DVD Series

Take a look at this brilliant series of DVDs covering the work of the following directors..

Top 100 Music Videos (Of All Time)

STYLUS MAGAZINE

you may not agree with the choices but there are some amazing videos here, some of which you will not have seen before.

>>>CLICK HERE<<<<

Jordan McGarry's clips

Jordan works for Partizan films- check out their site !

some of the clips Jordan showed:


Nizlopi: JCB Song


OK Go- almost 600,000 plays on YouTube !


Plan B


DJ Format


M Ward Chinese Translation


Wannadies- Big Fan


Daft Punk is Playing at My House- LCD Soundsystem


Architecture in Helsinki- Do The Whirlwind


Chikinki- Assassinator 13

Scopitones

Scopitones blog
..Another Scopitone site

Len Lye- A Colour Box (1936)

Short film that illustrates the way visuals and music have often been related.

Nat King Cole - Frim Fram Sauce

Clem Sacco- Chunga Twist

Example of a scopitone. There are many more on YouTube and lots more information on the Scopitones sites. These very clearly prefigure the style and themes of many music videos post 1979.

The Beatles - Can't Buy Me Love

from 'A Hard Day's Night' (1964)

Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues

from the film 'Don't Look back' this inspired many videos and adverts and comic parodies

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields

part of a growing trend in the late 60s to produce short often surreal films to play on TOTP when bands were away.