Pop Quiz Sample

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Question #1
Music video refers to a short film of variable length that integrates a song or an album with imagery generated for artistic reasons. In such light of understanding, music videos tend to trace their origin back to the 1920s, which appeared for the first time. However, musical videos became popular in the 1980s when MTV established a channel around their medium. In 1983, Michael Jackson released ‘Thriller’ directed by Landis that acted as the best in production. The music video happened to be influential and iconic such that it was about a fourteen-minute video long. Significantly, it set new standards for production costing over eight hundred thousand dollars to film (In 2018, this would be equals to over two million dollars).
Question #2
There are four different music videos discussed in class: performance, animated, lyric, and narrative music videos. Firstly, performance music videos tend to be based on band performing or solo artist to the camera. Therefore, the objective is to focus and convey them in a specific manner to the viewing target audience. Therefore, this type of music video tends to incorporate live performance recording to depict an artistic talent that is not captured in the recording, for instance, capturing the enthusiasm and energy of live fans. Secondly, Concept music videos are grounded around a single tenet or concepts that are usually obscure; animated music videos refer to a staple of the medium, which is based on several reasons. For example, artists who do not have time to appear in their clips or artists who are busy have no time to appear in the video shoots. However, animation tends to be cheaper and easier to produce in the current years. Thirdly, Narrative music videos ref...