Music Video Directors
There are a large amount of music video directors with a wide range of creative taste and design. This means that the music videos that are produced are always different, allowing a large variety of videos to be published. Even though music videos are influenced by the genre that they are being created for, the style of the video is still decisive on the directors creative influence.Adam Spiegel
Adam Spiegel, known professionally as 'Spike Jonze', is an American filmmaker, photographer and actor, who's work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He began his career as a teenager photographing BMX riders and skateboarders for various magazines, and co-founded the youth culture magazine 'Dirt'.
Moving into filmmaking, he started shooting street skateboarding films and later co-founded the skateboard company 'Girls Skateboards' in 1993. His style of filmmaking made him an in-demand director of music videos for much of the 90's, resulting on collaborations with Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, Weezer, Bjork, Kanye West and Arcade Fire.
Fatboy Slim - Weappon Of Choice
This won Jonze a grammy award for best short form music video.
Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry is a French director, screenwriter and producer noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise-en-scene. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He has also worked on several comedy films such as 'The Science of Sleep' (2006), 'Be Kind Rewind' (2008), 'The Green Hornet' (20011) and more. He is well known for his music video collaborations with Daft Punk, Donald Fagen, Radiohead, Bjork, Beck, The Chemical Brothers and The White Stripes.
Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry is a French director, screenwriter and producer noted for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise-en-scene. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He has also worked on several comedy films such as 'The Science of Sleep' (2006), 'Be Kind Rewind' (2008), 'The Green Hornet' (20011) and more. He is well known for his music video collaborations with Daft Punk, Donald Fagen, Radiohead, Bjork, Beck, The Chemical Brothers and The White Stripes.
Daft Punk - Around The World
Director X
Julien Christian Lutz, known professionally as Director X, is a Canadian film and music video director and producer. Lutz began his career working on various productions and was a visual consultant on the Hype Williams (a music video director) 1998 film 'Belly'. After working on several of his projects, Lutz became a protege of Hype Williams. Since the late 1990's, Lutz has directed dozens of music videos for popular artists and has been noted for his high budget, visually distinctive music videos for popular music singles. This includes artists such as R.Kelly, Usher, Kanye West, Jay-Z, David Guetta, Justin Bieber, Drake and many, many more well known artists.
Drake - Hotline Bling
Melina Matsoukas
Matsoukas is an American music video, film and television director. She is a two-time Grammy Award winner and four-time MTV Video Music Awards winner for her 'We Found Love' and 'Formation' music videos. She was honored with the Franklin J. Schaffner Alumni Medal by the American Film Institute in 2019. Her work is described as "chock full of bright colours or crisp black and white images, smooth spotlights, and tasteful retro video models". Matsoukas says that expensive equipment is not necessary for a quality video and one should never think that way. "A good video has the right visuals, a well conceptualised story and should be exciting and elicit reaction.
Rihanna - We Found Love
Emily Kai Bock
Emily Kai Bock is an American writer and film director. In 2014 Bock won the Prism Prize and UK Music Video Awards for writing and directing a video for the Arcade Fire song Afterlife and was nominated for Director of the Year at the Much Music Video Awards. Boch has also directed notable music videos for Lorde, Grizzly Bear and Grimes.
Bock was influenced by the music videos of Daft Punk, Radiohead and The Foo Fighters, directed by Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, and Jonathan Glazer, while growing up. According to The Globe and Mail, Boch " favours a 'run and gun' style, shooting with precision but not necessarily permission, in locations that feel plucked from memory., and with considerable speed".
Emily Kai Bock is an American writer and film director. In 2014 Bock won the Prism Prize and UK Music Video Awards for writing and directing a video for the Arcade Fire song Afterlife and was nominated for Director of the Year at the Much Music Video Awards. Boch has also directed notable music videos for Lorde, Grizzly Bear and Grimes.Bock was influenced by the music videos of Daft Punk, Radiohead and The Foo Fighters, directed by Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry, and Jonathan Glazer, while growing up. According to The Globe and Mail, Boch " favours a 'run and gun' style, shooting with precision but not necessarily permission, in locations that feel plucked from memory., and with considerable speed".
Arcade Fire - Afterlife
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Jonze (Visited 04/09/19)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Gondry (Visited 04/09/19)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_X (Visited 04/09/19)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melina_Matsoukas (Visited 04/09/19)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Kai_Bock (Visited 04/09/19)
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