Top Of The Pops

The Top Of The Pops was a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1964 to 2006. Each weekly programme consisted of performances from some of that week's best-selling popular music artists, with a rundown of that week's singles chart. All the music was shown to a live performance but with a catch. Many of the performances were just artists miming their own music and improvising the music playing. This was because they effectively wanted to sell their single rather than a live performance that may or may not have been a great version of their songhbdor example with Oasis, who debuted on the show in 1995 with their hit single 'Roll With It'. 

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As you can see from this video, the band are not performing an actual live version of the song. Its all improvised as it sounds just like the studio version. Also you can see that the instruments are not being played in time with the music nor do they look like they are the right chords/strumming patterns for the song. This shows how the performance is just for the entertainment and the reputation of the band. What is also evident is that Liam isn't singing loud enough as if he was shouting the lyrics. Overall we would like to recreate this in our music video as it is a parody. We are effectively taking the mick out of the past and in doing so we will have these humorous errors in our video such as not playing in time to the music, or the guitar playing not looking like it should do. However to show that we know this is happening, we will have footage of the band members laughing or acting foolish as if they know it wasn't the best and most fluent performance done by them.