Kasabian poster analyising

This is a poster promoting the band Kasabian.The first thing you notice when you look at this poster is the four band members all looking directly into the camera which could show they are trying to connect with the viewer and catch their eye. Their clothes and general image comply with their image of being an indie rock band. The way the title is against a black background instead of the background the band are standing against and written in white makes it completely stand-out and very noticable. The title is also written in the same font that the word Kasabian is written in on their album covers and other merchandise from them which makes the poster unique to the band. The overall poster is also reasonably easy to read and view. The font is easy to read and because the band are lined up they are all easy to see and notice meaning no one will be confused and know exactly what and who they are looking at.

Oasis video analysis- Little by little

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic-Na--7_NI

This video from Oasis is a performance video. At the start of the video we see Noel Gallagher who provides the lead vocals for the song as a person on the street playing guitar and singing for money. The video also follows the story of a man played by actor Robert Carlyle and his perculiar journey from a physically small man in a big city to a huge, giant man ending in the countryside. The majortity of the video is shown with very little colour with grey, white and black being the only formiddible colours along with the brown door. Robert Carlyle's character who at the start is very short stumbles around, ignored from others walking by looks up and the upward camera angle making the buildings and people look tall and dominating telling us that the character feels lost and his small physical size is an indication of how he feels mentally. The Gallagher and Carlyle characyers do cross paths when Carlyle puts some money in the Gallagher's hat for playing and as he picks up the coin it gives us a clear indication of just how short Carlyle's character is. In the next image Carlyle's character has clearly grown in size yet is still shorter than the normal person. Over the course of the video Gallagher's character is simply ignored by most and those of do give him money it is very little and this makes the viewer feel slightly sorry for the character. As Carlyle's character crosses the street his height increases and is now of normal size but falls over and is helped up by man who captures the viewers eye as he is wearing a bright white coat and makes eye contact with the camera but swiflty vacates the scene. Being helped by someone and no longer ignored could be an indication that he is equal in height and importance to everyone else now. As Carlyle's character walks down a city road it fades into a coutryside road and when walking around the countryside he becomes bigger and bigger until he peaks even highier than the tree tops.

Oasis video analysis-Lyla

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg3l8fq5Ln0&feature=fvw

This video from oasis is a performance video. The video tells a story of a woman and her strange evening. The video starts with the camera rapidly moving down a building and when it come to the bottom of the building we go inside a flat where this woman is standing in the company of two other men. The start of the video is in black and white and I believe this is a representation of the woman's depression which is shown with the close ups of her face which show her expression as sad. At the start of the video the two men seem to be shouting at the women with the dog barking and with one of the men with a knife this all creates a feeling that not only is the woman unhappy but also in danger. Just before one of the men heads towards the bathroom oasis are seen performing on the television screen. With the noise of the shouting and barking the woman breaks mentally as she screams back and ushers the men out of the room to be left by herself at which she seems still depressed but definitely more relieved as if a burden is off her shoulders. She heads to the bathroom and collects drugs, the identity of which we are unsure as is soon seen facing a wall which explodes open with light and sound and she steps inside the open room the collapsed wall creates. As she steps in the video becomes colour, the woman becomes dressed in a nice dress with her hair done looking happier than she had been at any other time of the video and in some sort of party in which oasis are playing. As the video progresses she seems to enjoy herself and being liked by the other party goers until she starts to see a vision of a fat couple eating ferociously and instead of the people looking at her and giving her attention she see's them masked and looking down on her and almost physically abusing her and she panics and flee's and as she does so keeps seeing flashes of the masked people then vanishing and she ends up in the colourless world she began in. At the end of the video she looks out the window at the wall that she went through and on it reads "don't believe the truth". This could mean that she escaped to this world with colour and popularity and partying because she doesn't want to believe the bad situation she is in in the real life with the two men but even the colour world ended badly and bought her back to the truth she doesn't want to believe.

Arctic Monkeys video anaysis- Crying Lightning

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

This video from the Arctic Monkeys is a performance video. The video is a strange video and the events in it are very surreal and almost fantasy. The video starts with a long shot which enables the viewer to get a view of everything in the shot which includes the band in a small almost homemade looking boat in the middle of an ocean with no land in sight and the mist on the ocean's surface and the sun setting in the background. This creates a scene which looks more like a dream than an actual real life event taking place. As the video continues dusk becomes night and as time in the video moves on the weather gets progressively worse and worse as rain starts to pour and the sea becomes rougher and rougher. Now that it is dark in the video and with nothing to see apart from the band play and the weather conditions the lights on the boat means that the band is the main focus of the video as they are the only lightened thing in the video. After the storm reaches its peak and animals have fled the scene the size of the waves decrease out of the sea comes a giant figure of the band leader playing a guitar and this is where the video becomes very surreal and like a fantasy. As the tempo of the music increases the other band members 'sea giant figures' arise from the sea and together they play on the sea's surface with lightning in the sky and a glow around them and the real band look on from the boat with a confused and little fearful look upon their faces and as the sky slightly regains sight the 'sea giant figurines' descend back into the ocean.

Arctic monkeys-when the sun goes down video analysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA15L6cHPvQ

This video from Arctic Monkeys is a performance video. The song and video is based around prostitution in Sheffield (where the band come from) and a man that is implied as either the prostitutes pimp or client and throughout the song is described as a "scummy" man. The first image of the video is a woman who turns out to be the prostitute. In the first image we can tell that she is from a urban, poor area from the background having a tower block in it. The woman is seen at a mid shot so you can see the expression on her face which is a sad and depressed one and also see her clothing which is a hoody and jacket. Our first impressions of this woman are that she is relatively poor and very unhappy. As the video plays our impression of the woman doesn't change as she stands on the estate and smokes a cigarette until the image of her leaning in a car window and standing on street corners our impression turns to more sympathy towards the woman for the condition of her life. In the video the women is seen walking down a spiral staircase. This could be showing us where her life is heading: in a downward spiral. The "scummy" man either her pimp or client increases this feeling of pity for the girl as he seems controlling as he cuts and places food on her plate almost as if she were a child and abusive as he picks her up and carries her as she struggles to escape, his grasp, pulls her around by her hand and whilst in the back of a car he licks her face and manhandles her. Despite this the video portrays she puts up with this abuse because he in a way looks after her by supplying her food and warmth and at one point is shown to be placing extra layers to keep her warm. The video also shows the lack of glamour in the girls life as when she tries to become a magicians assistant which is normally a glamorous job the man gets jealous and beats him up and forced her to slap and punch the magician showing she is trapped being a prostitute and trapped being with this man who abuses her. The atmosphere of sadness and depression is exaggerated through the weather asweell. It is shown as cold, wet and a winter environment making the situation for the prostitute a lot worse.

Kasabian video analysis- L.S.F

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ouzUazBIIQ

This video is a performance video. It is set in a women's prison and the women use the band playing as a means to escape. The very first image of the video is barbed wire on top of a wall with the camera looking up at the wall to make it seem taller which gives an instant impression of being trapped or being kept in or out of a certain place and as we find out later in the video the video takes place within a women's prison so the feeling of entrapment is part of the feelings of the prisoners. The next image of the video is of a tin/metal wall attempted to be knocked down which tells us that the people inside are attempting to break out and throughout the video we see the course of the prisoners attempting an escape using the band and the video keep cutting back to this image of the metallic wall being penetrated. The first speaking part of the video mainly focuses on the lead singer of the band as he is in the centre of the frame and is seen as a sexual object. This is because he would be one of very few males the prisoners would of seen in possibly years being an all female prison and the female prisoners seem to be delighted at the presence of the man screaming and smiling in awe at him and as the band say thank you a women makes a sexual innuendo asking if she can hold his organ and then reacts by handing her his mouth organ. Just as the band start playing and the song begins the camera rotates keeping the lead singer in the center but bars cut across the screen reminding the viewer that it is a jail and does this more than once throughout the video. Throughout the video the symbol on the bands first released album keeps coming into view on the walls and as a tattoo on an inmate's arm unifying the band with the prisoners and visa-versa. It also keeps the audience knowing who the song is by as a large percentage of the video is not on the band and is on the inmates escape. The first indication of an escape comes from the inmates passing the mouth organ behind their backs secretly and comes back into sight when some inmates are cleaning and the organ is slid between the inmates and picked up and put in a bucket of water they use to clean. The image of the inmates scrubbing on their hands and knees is showing the unpleasentries of jail life and supplies a reason for wanting to escape. Another reason the prisoners want escape is shown when the inmates are listening to the band and the guards pull out their batons which is shown dramatically in slow motion shows the kind of treatment the prisoners get while inhabitants within the prison walls. The next time the organ is seen is when it is opened up and revealed to have a key in which opens the cell doors. The key has some sort of glow which shows the inmates see it as some sort of miracle. The escape proves successful as the next images of the video is of the inmate's wearing guards' hat and a guard handcuffed to a bed with a dunce cap on and the final image is of the metallic door opening to the outside world.