Band research - oasis

To begin my research i have looked at bands that play music similar to what my music video will be using. The first band that came to mind is an obvious choice for me as they are my favourite band, Oasis. Oasis originally formed in 1991 but to begin with were called "The Rain". They grew up in manchester and the band was originally formed by Liam Gallagher (vocals and tambourine), Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs (guitar), Paul "Guigsy" McGuigan (bass guitar) and Tony McCarroll (drums, percussion), who were soon joined by Liam's older brother Noel Gallagher (lead guitar and vocals). They have had eight UK number-one singles, seven UK number-one albums, fifteen NME Awards, nine Q Awards, four MTV Europe Music Awards and six BRIT Awards, including one in 2007 for outstanding contribution to music and one for the best album of the last 30 years as voted by the BBC Radio 2 listeners; they have been nominated for three Grammy Awards. As of 2009, the band have sold an estimated 70 million records worldwide. Also the band was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2010 for “Longest Top 10 UK Chart Run By A Group” after an unprecedented run of 22 successive Top 10 hits in the UK. The band also holds the Guinness World Record for being the "Most Successful Act of the Last Decade" in the UK between the years 1995 and 2005, spending 765 weeks in the Top 75 singles and albums charts. As you can see from the many awards won, they are very succesful and create excellent rock and roll music.

I will be looking at videos and pictures of these to get a rough idea of what clothes the band members will be wearing and playing etc. I will also be taking a look at songs similar to the song we are going to use such as "whats the story", "go let it in go let it out" or "Do you know what i mean?" and see what kind of camera shots and mise en scene has been used. This way i will be able to develop an understanding of what goes on in a modern day rock video. I will try and capture elements of this and use it in my music video. However, after watching videos such as, "Do you know what i mean?", i have realised that some of the technical devices and props they have used would be far too expensive to use in my video.