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How a Music Video is Made Ever since I was a teenager in the 1980's during the MTV era, I was quite fascinated by watching music videos by my favorite artists such as Michael Jackson, and his most popular video of all time, "Thriller" and wondered how it was pulled off, and how long it actually would take to create such a masterpiece. After doing my research on this topic, I now know how a music video can be created and how it's produced. The purpose of a video is to be released for a promotion for an album. The video is usually released before the album. If the video gains interest, it may become viral. Therefore, the more promotion for the video, the more the song and the band will earn money. A video is also like a short film or movie that tells a story set to music. Therefore, the narrative tells the story to correspond with the song. The process of making a video is to write a story and a script, then create a shooting schedule with a...