Music video directors

Music Video Directors

The Best:

Spike Jonze is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Spike is best known with his work in music videos and some television. He has worked with people upon the likes of Daft Punk, Kanye West and Fatboy slim. Spike used to be co-creator and executive producer of MTV's 'Jackass'. 

David Fincher is another world famous American director. Best known for his work in films such as 'Seven', 'Fight Club' and 'Gone Girl'. Although David is best known for his work with physiological thrillers he has worked with some very big music artists to produce their music videos. Like for example Madonna, Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake.

The third director I have chosen is called Chris Cunningham. Chris is a more local from Reading in England. He has a bit of an alternative style to his video and also opted not going down the movie and tv scene. Chris' biggest artist he has worked with is Bjork. However if you view his work it has a certain unique style to it.




My favourite directors:

A directors work whom I have been really influenced and I really enjoy the work of is Scott Altman. I came across Scott Altman's work after doing a bit of research into a song that I like called 'i know' by Shift k3y. Scott actually works for a newly established production company called 'Defunct Films'. Defunct based in Shoreditch have a number or small time producers who work for them including Scott obviously. Scott has worked with several musicians including Phillip George, Jax Jones and even Kanye West.

Another one of my favourite directors has to be Ryan Staake. Ryan is possibly just as big as Scott Altman has collaborated with some big artists such as J.Cole and Lil Wayne. But the reason I have chosen him is because of his work in the song 'My Love' by Route 94 featuring Jess Glyne. The song was released back in 2014 along with the music video. I think that the way that Ryan shot this video captured my attention straight away due to the x-ray vision effect it was shot in.