You can't just learn history out of a textbook now, because a lot of your history is happening on TV, or the radio, online or on other computer media. To fully understand those media, you need to know what images mean and what they are used for and in what context they were captured. An image of the Berlin Wall falling doesn't mean much unless you know why the wall was there, who built it and what it divided. Such images can illustrate our shared history. What binds us together as a nation is shared experiences - your grandparents read the same books as other grandparents, your parents reads books and watched the same TV programs as other parents.
History is a lot more visual now.
You will share images with your contemporaries. You need to know how to find out what the images mean. Below are quick links to other web pages about this assignment, other web pages about sample music videos, and some important words about copyright . Also below is an introduction to analyzing music videos. Images should support the major themes and, like good writing, good videos don't obscure their themes with images that are meaningless.