Samuel Bayer graduated from New York City's School of Visual Arts and has now become one of the most talented music video directors around.
He was a painter who wanted to use his exsisting talents into the music video scene. The first opportunity for this was Nirvanas ''Smells like teen spirit'' is still today as known as one of the most interesting and unique videos ever made. He is known to have a full, hands-on approach, he decided to do mix all conventions when doing a music video,
the lights,
photographs and he also does all the camerawork on projects.
Following his successful directing with Nirvana, he began to produce videos for bands such as The Rolling Stones and Blink 182. He tends to show the band playing the instruments live and incorporates it with different themes.
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For example, in Blink 182's Stay Together For The Kids he adapts a basic idea, of the band playing in an empty warehouse, and contrasts it with different images of various different people.
Recently, Bayer has directed videos for Greenday, with 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' winning awards at the MTV music awards. He also directed Justin Timberlakes 'what goes around comes around', again this was seen to be quite a shocking video with a lot of moving images and unique ideas.
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Spike Jonze
Spike Jonze began his career as an assistant editor for a small teenage biking magazine called 'Freestyling'. His first opportunity for music video directing appeared in 1992 where he was given the chance to shoot footage for '100%' by Sonic youth. Spike Jonzes' first real breakthrough as a music video director came when he directed ''Sabotage'' by the Beastie Boys. He took inspiration from a 1970's police T.V programme.
This video managed to win Spike 4 awards at the MTV music awards. Spike Jonze further made a name for himself when he directed Weezers video 'Buddy Holly'. Again he took the idea from a T.V programme, this time it was from the 1970's comedy show Happy Days. Spike Jonze was fast becoming known on the music directing scene for his original and comedic ideas. Jonze continued throughout the 90's to produce videos for some major artists including Puff Daddy and the Chemical Brothers. Spike furthered his talents into the T.V commercial world and produced adverts for companies such as Nike. One of Spikes most famous videos was Fatboy Slims 'Praise You' which won Spike 3 more MTV music awards. Towards the end of the 90's he began to direct movies and acting within movies.
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I personally find Spike Jonzes style exciting and fascinating. The way he takes inspiration from other texts and transfers them to his own is clever and works well. He coincides with the type of music video i want to produce. He is able to provide videos which have comedic value and are able to entertain the audience. His ideas are simple yet effective similar to the videos which I will be hoping to direct. For example, in the video of Praise You by Fatboy Slim the locations and camerawork are so simple, however it was recognised with many awards.
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