Music Videos Can Make Trapletes (Official Song Video) Or Break a Song Music videos are defined as short videos or films that are accompanied by a complete musical piece, generally by a song. A music video (MV) these days is used primarily for marketing purposes. It usually promotes music recordings - the more effective the music video, the higher the sales of these music recordings. The origins of this specific media dates way back but they got highly recognized in the 1980s. MVs got the attention of people when the format of MTVs was based around these music short films. The actual term "music video" became widely used early in the 1980s. Prior to that, such short films were called promotional clips or promotional films. There are so many ways in which music videos can be made. A wide range of film making styles can be employed to do a music video. Some of these film making techniques that are successfully used over the years to produce MVs are live action filming, docu
