The purpose of a music video is to tell a story of a piece of music through the use of visual images produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Music videos started as just small clips called "talkies" which people went to watch at the cinema. After these came about, there began to be a lot more of songs that had music videos to go with them. This included Walt Disney releasing "Fantasia" in 1940 which was an animated film based around famous pieces of classical music.
Many big singers created their own music centred films including Elvis Presley in "Rock around the Clock." The main music video that came out that inspired others to start making their own, and also setting the tone of what a modern music video should be was in 1975 when Queen released "Bohemian Rhapsody". This was seen as such an iconic music video because it was the first to use advanced technology and featured both live performance and when they used the advanced technology it was to import a video of Freddie Mercury's face singing to fade in and out during the video.
Music videos became more mainstream in1981 when MTV aired "Video killed the radio star" and the began an era of 24 hour music on television. This was followed by people such as Michael Jackson creating a new era of creating a short film as a music video as he did with "Billie Jean" but in 1984 is when he had really taken this idea to the next level when he released a video for "Thriller.
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