Research; landmark videos!

I'm now looking into some landmark videos and memorable directors, so I can look at those videos and the directors and perhaps get some ideas of what certain audiences like in music videos and therefore can apply these ideas to my own music video!!

When I was looking around for memorable music videos these are a few that came up on numerous occasions so I researched further into those videos....

Johnny Cash - Hurt - 2002


This music video was one that came up a lot of times throughout my research, and having never heard the song or seen the video I decided to take a look - the outcome was a wonderfully directed video, performance and concept based, although arguably a sense of narration as it seems to follow the highs and lows of his life.
The song was one of his last recordings before he died, and it won the best music video in the grammy's. It has archive footage of his life which makes it very personal to him, this seems to be a priviledge to the audience that we get to see such a personal side of him, the fact that it's filmed in his own home adds to this.
This video definitely seems to be a memorable one, I personally think it's because of how close he let his fans and audience into his life and feelings via footage of his life and personal surroundings.

Thriller - Michael Jackson



The 13 minute and 42 second long video is one of the most famous video's ever, it's been voted most influential pop music video of all time which is alot within itself! It's also been in the guinness world book of records. It's popular for so many reasons, the length of course, and the promotion and special screenings, and also the advanced technology and make-up made it a huge hit. It's still talked about lots today showing how influential it really was!

Video killed the radio star - The Buggles




Although I've already looked into this video I felt it needed to be mentioned in landmark videos - of course it was the first music video to be shown on MTV and this alone is a fantastic achievement that marked the beginning of a new music video era, however the video and lyrics itself make it all the more important as it's talking about how music videos will make people forget about radio stars! Definitely the beginning of something new and big for music videos.

Weapon of Choice - Fatboy Slim



This video is arguably not one of the most famous or well known but I think it's a really interesting idea for a music video and needed to be mentioned as after it came out many other dance related music videos began appearing on the scene. It was recorded in 2000 and was directed by Spike Jonze who is a director I will be looking into in my next research post as his name has come up numerous times. It won 6 MTV awards in 2001 which is a fantastic amount for a music video. I think one of the reasons it's so well known is due to the fact that the well known actor Christopher Walken is the only person in the entire video, and he's doing something that he's not well known for which will obviously make people talk about the video. Another thing I think is interesting is that it doesn't follow many of Goodwin's theories, there are no shots of the band whatsoever therefore people may not relate the song to them firstly as they will think of Christopher first.

I think these are just a very small number of music videos that had inspiration on the music video world,   some began trends and styles whereas others were just extremely memorable but all were interesting to research anyway!