Director Study Assignment

1. Director Study Assignment (Individual!)
Your mission is to create a blogpost/powerpoint/preziabout an important
MusicVideo Director. You must do at least one in a lot of detail but you could
do morefor extra browniepoints….
Key directors could include:
JonathanGlazer Michel Gondry
Mark Romanek Spike Jonze
AntonCorbijn Sophie Muller
Hype Williams Diane Martel
JonasAkerlund Michael Bay
MarcusNispel Brett Ratner
FrancisLawrence Mark Pellington
Tarsem Singh AntonieFuqua
David Slade Gore Verbinski
David Fincher
TheBlog post/Prezi/Powerpoint must include:
o At least two embeddedvideos
o Images of the director
o Basic bio detail (edited by you, not just copy/paste)
o Key artists they work with
o Key videos (analysed)
o Otherwork – e.g. advertising/film
o An account of their ‘style’ – see if you can workit out for yourself
or find information written by someoneelse.
 is there anything typical about the‘look’ of their work?
 Do they uselots of CGI orare they more into natural
effects?
 Cinematography/ useof colour? Use of light?
 Recurring motifs /iconography in their work?

2. o A personal responseto their work –what do you admire about
this director? What do you like about his/her style?