Understanding the Purpose of Music Videos

What is a music video

A music video is a short film that dictates or tells a story that relates to the song its about and is usually produced to promote the publicity of an artist and their music so that people can go out and buy their CD's or download their songs. Sometimes you often see the name of a record label shown at the end of a music video or at the start and that happens so that the label can get some recognition.

Here is an example of a video which dictates the songs story

Often in some music videos you'll notice items and other things being bleared out. That is because of advertisement and a trademark law. The trade mark law is mostly the reason why logo's and some display pictures in the back  ground of a music video may be bleared. Censoring out other trade  mark logos is done so that people don't get confused on the origin of a product or where it came from.

Here is an example of Logo's being censored in a music video

Music videos have been about for manny years since the 60's and have been becoming more and more famous over time. Most music videos nowadays are produced just to advertise and promote products and people as the music industry is more of a business.  

People always get their ideas from many places like real life experience but sometimes  they may often take the idea from other people either pitching ideas or sometimes even copying already existing movies.

Most underground artists these days get their promotion through youtube or in their local areas and the difference you may notice with their videos is the style of music videos.