Thursday, 18 September 2014

Music video directors

Here I will be looking at some of the most popular music video directors.






 Paul Hunter - Paul Hunter is a successful music video director, after creating music videos for a numerous number of popular singles, as well as many more. Paul has one the MTV award of best video of the year and best video from a film, in 2000, for his video for the song "lady marmalade'. Paul has worked with many popular artists include the likes of, Eminem, Michael Jackson, Snoop dog, Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Notorious B.I.G, and many more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hunter_%28director%29






Michel Gondry - Michel is born on the May 8th 1963. He is notably known for being a french film director, screen writer, producer, music video director, and has picked up an academy award. Michels career of a film maker actually started as he began to create music videos for a rock group Oui Oui. Soon Gondry found himself producing videos for a range of artists, and on more than once occasion for the likes of Radiohead, Daft Punk, and The white strips, further on in his career. Gondry along with fellow directors Spike Jonze and David Fincher, is a representative of the influx of music video directors into feature film. He made his film debut was in 2001 with Human Nature. Michel style of video often relies on videography and camera tricks which play with frames of reference. Some notable music videos Gondry has done include the songs:

  • Heard em say - Kanye West 
  • Knives out - Radiohead 
  • Everlong - FooFighters
  • Around the world - Daft Punk 
















David Fincher - David was born August 28th 1962, and is an american film director, film producer, and music video director. He was recently nominated for the academy award for best director for the films, 'The curious case of Benjamin button', and 'Social Network'. In Davids early career he was employed at Korty films, but soon moved to Industrial light and magic in 1983, where he notably worked on the 1984 'Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom'. However in 1984 Finchers career kicked off when he left Industrial light and magic to direct an american cancer society advert which highly raised his reputation. Although David is a very successful music video director he has also been involved in a number of popular films such as, se7en, Alien 3, and The girl with the dragon tattoo. As a music film director Fincher has won two Grammy awards for best music video for the videos 'Love is Strong' by The rolling Stones in 1995, and 'Suit and Tie' by Justin Timberlake ft Jay Z in 2013. More over he has won three MTV video music awards for best direction. Some notable music videos Fincher has directed include:


  • Suit and Tie- Justin Timberlake and Jay Z
  • Who is it? - Michael Jackson
  • Bad girl - Madonna 
  • Love is strong - Rolling Stones 




Chris Cunningham - He is a british video artist and director, born in 1970. Chris initially directed music videos for music genres such as electronica and ambient music, as well directing some short films. In 2000s Chris began doing music production work. In chris' music videos career he won multiple awards for the video to Bjork's, 'All is love', which includes an MTV award for breakthrough video, as well as a grammy nomination for best short form video, and was the first to ever music video to win a gold pencil at D&AD awards. Some notable music video Chris has done include:

  • Frozen - Madonna 
  • Only you - Portishead 
  • All is full love - Bjork 

















1 comment:

  1. Great info, So many people miss out on golden opportunities, not because of bad content, or lack of skill just because they’re using the WRONG kind of video.”
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