Oasis - Dont look back in anger:
- Strange & unordinary
- Old fashioned
- Relaxed
- Based around love
- Informal
- Artist is main focus - authenticity
- Carefree - doesn't care about anything else
- Manor House - got money
- Desirable
- Popular
- Heterosexual audience
- Vintage taxi cab - implies he comes from a common, working class background, British example
- Notion of looking - Voyeurism
- sunglasses - John Lennon (The Beatles) - John Lennon's protest (mentions in lyrics 1960's) intertextual reference
How do we re-brand a shy guitarist as a solo-artist?
What character roles 'star in text'?
What is significant?
Is there any voyeurism?
Intertextual references?
Relationship to sound (sound and visuals)?
Death of you and me - Noel Gallagher:
- Set in Wild West - Western diner - Compares to when he was in Oasis and was based around British theme
- Girl in the blue dress is the main character and main focus
- She wants to escape (standing at the window) - connection with something?
- Her uniform is brighter than anything else - she shouldn't be in the run down building or with the other people
- Camera takes us to the man - link between him and girl - goes past the sign saying 'last chance'
- Man is writing lyrics - star in text
- He is wearing a white shirt (purity, cleanliness) - father figure?, Ring - , Sunglasses - old video, hiding himself
- Horse and trap - not very friendly, dark, gothic people, looks funeral like, villainous
- Man in diner - creepy, ugly - link between him and gothic/evil horses
- Themes of suicide (drowning) or idea of water being purified (baptism)
- Can see the visuals of instruments being played
- Girl is sad so when she falls in the water it is as though she is killing herself but when the band arrive she is then happy and disappears into the cart
- Her dress is short, also wet therefore clinging to her - voyeurism
- Community of band
- "I can feel the storm cloud sucking up my soul" - she needs a freedom, get away, - Storm cloud - horse and cart
- Christ like pose - not just British
- Hand on heart - the ring (), he is pushing her - she is falling away from him, rebirth? death? - baptism (he is the priest, religious figure)
- red door frame - hell? rebirth?
- happy outside the diner - escaped, free - then enters the 'evil' cart (opens by itself), 'flirting' with the dark side
- "to be continued" - makes the audience want to watch the next video
- Made a short film to the soundtrack
How have these themes/ this concept been developed?
What is life - Noel Gallagher:
- Black and white
- Darker colours - colours have been faded - evil, dark side, devilish
- Showing flash backs of the other video - added more quick and trippy shots
- Red and black room - no surroundings
- Fire lights the room - hell, olden times
- Spinning - not real life, a dream
- Man dressed in black, black top hat - childcatcher (chitty chitty bang bang)
- One on One conversation - she is not talking, he is scaring her, "fear" - he is controlling her, he is trying to corrupt her soul - Noel gallagher is repelling him (he is God)
- Women just appear - demons? Ghosts? - make her drink something - makes it out as though she is dreaming/dying, 'life flashes before her eyes'?
- The other two women are wearing revealing outfits, jumping in the car and standing at the side of the road, staring at the man in a provocative way and invite him into the car, focusses on their legs a lot and their facial expressions, they are being filmed - voyeurism
- They steal his car, stronger than him, clever
- He has a photo of the main girl
- She is alone, but being watched by the man from previous video and also this new character which is presented as evil
- She is in the boot of a car crying, when she is released she is then smiling - same man that released her as the other video
- More modernised
- Alice in Wonderland - top hat, red, blue dress and blonde hair (same outfit), goes into an unrealistic world, weird etc. - intertextual reference
- Owl - foreshadowing she still has putriy in her, also relates to wizards and witches, occult (dark side, black side)
- Anti-christ - upside cross position at start of the video
- Russel Brand - evil, devil (horny devil)
If I had a gun - Noel Gallagher:
- Older characters
- Reference to an owl again
- Love (wedding)
- Groom goes to kiss her but her attention is draw to a cowboy that appears - she leaves her husband to go see the cowboy - old companion?
- Cowboy stands out
- She is centre screen - main focus of her staring at him
- Cowboy jumps into pool, bride follows - similar to 1st video - freedom? she has been released from her husband and set free to the one she really loves
- Shows the diner again -
- The start of the video is explained
- Start of the video shows clips from rest of the video (swimming)
- Everyone is shocked she is with him - unrealistic, confusing, shocking?
- It then cuts to her looking sad in a house surrounded by wedding things
- Her dad understands why she is sad and hugs her
- Another girl is flirting with the groom - is he having an affair? is that why she is sad?
- Standing opposite sides of the pool - they have been separated for a long time - jumping in the water lets them be together
- The other girls and dad tells her to go after him - the father figure is similar to the one in the 1st video - he is sending her into the water to be free and to be happy
- Noel is the priest - looks sad at wedding but when cowboy shows up he is not at all disappointed - had he set it up as he returns to the diner at the end of the video?
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