Research- other music videos

To make a good music video, it was a good idea to look at some that have already been done and get ideas like "Oh i like that, we'll use it" or "Thats awful, we won't do that!".



One video i looked at was Songbird, by Oasis, a British rock band. The song is actually an acoustic song, rather than an electric guitar lead rock song like they normally do. Oasis songs normally feature little or no narrative and focus more on performance, and this video is no different. The video focuses around Liam Gallagher on his guitar while singing too. There are very few other people in the video, leaving Liam isolated in the video, which is an idea that my group have had for our video. I like the setting as it's simple and very few locations are used, keeping the video easy to follow.

I also liked some of the shots used, like the long shots of him walking and some of the close ups of Liam and the guitar. These are shots we may use in our piece, as they are easy to do and can tell the story of the song (example: long shot shows isolation/location, close ups show character emotions).

I think this video is very good: it's simple and focuses more on performance as a lot of rock music videos do. It also uses the idea of loneliness well, and how someone on their own can still make the video flow and keep it interesting. However, I feel our piece will be much more different as the lyrics of the song can be more easily interpreted and put into a narrative better than the lyrics to Songbird can.

Alright our kid :)