“The Masterplan” by Oasis
This animated video sees Oasis transferred into a spectacular world based completely on the paintings of famous northern artist L.S Lowry, including refined modern day twists and detailing. The video was made with the Lowry estate's approval and is a faithful representation of the artist's world of industrial Salford in the post war years.
We see the band Oasis performing at a pier based theater with the band, fans and instruments all animated, as they make their way across cities we see the industrial post war town centers and country side all looking bleak and dull. The song, in a nutshell is about not knowing what to do and what path to take in life, as the song progresses we see that no answer is right and that you are your own person so do what you want to do and what feels right. In the era of post war people felt oppressed from doing things they wanted that might look ungrateful to tows that sacrificed their lives fighting for this country; but in this video and song we see the band doing as they please and living life to the full “and then dance if you wanna dance” because at the end of the day we are all going to die so we may enjoy life while we can because we are jut all part of one ‘Masterplan’.
This is my interpretation of the meaning of the song and video.
The mise en scene of the band in the video is typical; all of them dressed in their ‘mod’ style with skinny jeans, parka/bommer jackets. This matches with the iconography of the genre modern rock, as we don’t expect the band to be wearing anything different even if they are animated in painting styles of L.S Lowry. My favorite part of the video, I must say is when Liam performs his droll witty strut across the post war industrial town.
“Wetsuit” by The Vaccines
The Vaccines put call out in 2011 for photos that could be used in their music video for one of their more popular songs Wetsuit, they had three rules the photos had to be taken and uploaded using the social media app Instagram, use the app to capture photos at festivals of bands, mud, tents and so on and the final rule was to tag the band in the photo using the hash tag #VACCINESVIDE. They received 2433 photos and with that made the video for Wetsuit.
The video is made entirely with photos and clips from the social media site Instagram, the reason why I chose this to be an inspirational music video is because I very much like this concept of getting the fans involved; and who doesn’t like being in a music video of a popular band they like listening to? The reason I liked the video so much is because it is festival themed, I am a keen festival goer myself and I have actually saw the Vaccines perform live at Leeds festival back in 2012. I feel more myself at festivals because it is a life without any limitations and you’re free to do whatever you want to do. I think festival life brings everyone closer together and when I watch this video it brings back joyful memories of excitement.
The video was published on October 5th of 2011 and now has over 2,192,924 views on YouTube.
“High Hopes” Kodaline
This video is about two lovers, the man middle aged maybe even a bit older and the woman who is definitely much younger. Firstly we see the man trying to commit suicide by attaching a hose pipe to his car exhaust filling the car with toxic fumes but then we see a woman running across the hill in her wedding dress. We now know why the man was trying to commit suicide.The video shows the pair running away together and we find out that the person she was going to marry was abusing her, physically hitting and controlling her. The man she was going to marry finds the couple and out of revenge shoots the both of them as the man is dying he shuffles over to his dying lover to hold her hand for the last time. At the end of the video we see the both of them in the hospital alive and well so they must of survived the shooting, their love is that strong it survived the hatred of an eval man.
The reason why I chose this to be an inspirational music video is because it is a love story and one of my ideas for my final music video is a love story, it might not quite end up like this one but I can find some good ideas and inspiration from this music video.
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