Hype Williams is an American music video and film director known for his innovative camera work and editing techniques. Some of the artists he has directed music videos for include 2Pac, Nas, Missy Elliott, Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Christina Aguilera. His signature styles include using a fisheye lens to distort views and splitting shots between the top and bottom of the frame. Williams also frequently uses aerial and tracking shots to make his videos feel vibrant and dynamic.

1. HYPE WILLIAMS
Music Director

2. ABOUT: HYPE WILLIAMS
 Harold "Hype" previously known as HYPE, is an
American music video and film director
 Williams first presented his work by labelling local
billboards, storefronts, and playgrounds using
HYPE as his graffiti tag

3. WHAT SONGS HE DIRECTED
Williams has created a number of music
videos for artists such as:
 2Pac - (California Love)
 Nas - (If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)
 Missy Elliott -The Rain
 Jay-Z - (Big Pimpin)
 Kanye West - (Gold Digger)
 Christina Aguilera- (Not Myself Tonight)
 Coldplay- (Viva La Vida)
 Hoobastank - (If I Were You)
 Nicki Minaj - (Stupid Hoe)

4. STYLE AND CAMERA WORK
 Williams used many types of camera work and editing
however his signature editing technique was the Fisheye
Lens. This is when the lens distorts the camera view around
the central focus
 William used this technique in many of his videos such as this
was used by the Williams/Perez in "Gimme Some More" by
Busta Rhymes and "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" by Missy
Elliott

5. STYLE AND CAMERA WORK
 Another "signature style" involves placing shots in regular widescreen
ratio, while a second shot is split and placed in the upper and lower
bars.
 Videos that use this style include "Diamonds on My Neck" by Smitty,
"I Ain't Heard of That" by Slim Thug, "So Sick" by Ne-Yo, "In My
Hood" by Young Jeezy,
 In addition to this, William frequently uses aerial and tracking shots
which often move backwards or forwards, some techniques which
can often be seen in "Rock the Boat" by Aaliyah, "She's a Bitch" by
Missy Elliott, "Not Myself Tonight" by Christina Aguilera and "Only U"
by Ashanti.
 It is a technique frequently used by Hype which allows his videos to
be vibrant, dynamic, multi-dimensional and atmospheric as opposed
to having static camera angles.

6. STYLE AND CAMERA WORK
 Since 2003, Williams has implemented a signature style
combining a centre camera focus on the artist or actor's body
from the chest upward and a solid colour background with a
soft or neutral different-colour light being shown in the centre
of the background
 This gives a sense of radiance of the background by the
foreground subject. This has been displayed in "Gold Digger"
by Kanye West, "Digital Girl" (Remix) by Jamie Foxx and
Beyoncé's "Video Phone".