While I was looking for a video to analyse I wondered about where the concept of the music video originated from and what band created the first music video and stumbled across this. After reading it I decided that I would have a look at a few of the early examples and decided to put a bit about a very early significant music type video on my blog. The Beatles made their second feature film called Help! in 1964, and the title track sequence is 'arguably one of the prime archetypes of the modern performance-style music video', as it uses contrasting long shots, close ups and rhythmic cross-cutting, as well as unusual shots and camera angles. Therefore this 2 minute sequence could be the one of the first music videos which a lot of artists will have seen. It's filmed in black and white, with all four of the band members wearing dark clothes, this creates a lot of contrast within the video. There is a lot of shots which have specific focus places, with the main focus being whats closest whether it be a guitar or a person and in one shot with Lennon in the background it changed focus from him to Harrison's left hand and the neck of his guitar. Throughout a lot of different shots have been used, capturing all different aspects of the band play, from close ups to shots showing one person, or two or three or all four of them.
