Music Videos

Essential Questions:

Why are music videos so complicated?

How did people watch music videos? How do they now?

Enduring Understandings:

The music video era brought music, dance, art, dress, and filmography together, and made it all accessible to a broad audience.

In the 80's, music videos were only shown on live television, watched in your home. Since then, they have become more widely and immediately available through online streaming on handheld devices.

Must watch videos:

• Video Killed the Radio Star
• Thriller
• Take on Me
• Sledgehammer
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Superman
• Gangnam Style

Project options:

• Choose a video from one of these top ten lists. Share the video with the class, and provide the following information about the music video:
  • Artist, composer, songwriter, arranger, etc.
  • Date of the original video release
  • Awards or recognition received
  • What made this video unique? Why was it so popular?
• You may give an oral presentation, answer them in a Google Presentation, or create a podcast (audio recording) or video