Music Video Analysis 2 - Oasis

Oasis - Little By Little


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5Sin7CN8fk


- Performance Based
- Public walking as if it was any other day - barthes cultural code - used in urban areas - example - James Morrison - 'You Give Me Something' - intertextual reference
- Represented as a street player, noel gallgher is depicted as homeless or poor - this being ironic with his wealth and rock star persona in the music world.
- Genre characteristics - guitar, leather jacket, serious face
- Mise-en-scene - Heathen Street - busy area of london, large amounts of people to show his talent and popularity of music. Noel's clothing is of a winter type and not luxury as he is shown as a poor individual. Raining - represents a duller mood to the song - shows noel as powerful as he tries to lift community spirits over the miserbale rain.
- Liams clothes - all white - made to stand out as the 'main man'.
- Use of different age demographic e.g. elderly people, young women, middle aged builders aswell as diffferent social classes from business men, to tramps and builders in order to show how varied community
- Intertextual Reference - James Morrison - but 'Little by Little' is not used to show the uniting of community as shown in 'You Give Me Something' but rather it is there to reinforce an ideolgy and represent the quailty of music.
- Ideological Discourse - Everyone has got a talent, noel gallagher is representing street performers, and poor civilians to be valuable assests to the world of music.
- Close Up's of artists face are used throughout the video. His serious plain, non responsive lips represents how he blocks out society and is in his own shell of someine questioning their own being. They also provide the 'meat' of the video and reinforces the authenticity of the video.
- Robert Carlyle used to promote video - recognised actor - also lipsyncing - low camera angle titlted up showing his dominance and his relaxed non verbal language is proven by him leaning up against the wall.
- People stop and look whos palying and singing the music to convey their star persona
- Liam Gallagher - shown as strong, dominat, low camera angle , eyes are firmly on the camera, shown to have a hard attitude and this reinforces his masculinity
- 1st person mode of address - noel gallagher is lipsyncing,
- Certain degree of exibitionism - he seems to be ignoring the people around him and playing especially for audiences on the screen.
- "We the people fight for our existence" - connotes society and how people are restricted by law, aspects of society.
- POV Shot - used to put the audience in the eyes of the artist, we feel closer to him
- Isolation on a doorstep of singer beings us closer to the music and we feel for his so seemed seperation from normal society.
- When people walk past they turn to look at the singer which could be seen as turning to see where the singing came from, thus showing his dominance and also reinforces his talent and authenticity of the character.
- Ambient Viewing - very chilled out song, it isnt a complecated narrative and viewers can casually listen or watch the video if doing other things.
- Not classic realist narrative - realises that performance is more important than narrative.
- Panning Shot - informs area of which artist is playing, also shows his importance and to a degree his talent.
- Perpetuated as innocent and harmless as he is trying to express his emotions and thoughts through playing music.
- Camera tilted down - high camera angle - shows noel and robert as vunrable and innocent as the world and society is too 'big' and 'busy' for them.
- When liam helps robert off the road after falling over reinforces the ideology of 'safety in numbers' and 'friends will always be there'.