Directors

Wes Anderson uses Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson most frequently in his movies, he won a ‘special film making’ award in 1996, he usually ends his movies on a slow-motion shot, he likes to put Rolling Stones on the sound track of his movies. Yellow and red are most prominent in his moives, he does dark comedy movies, and he went to the University of Texas.

Shynola consists of 4 graphic designers. Their style of work is abstract, and they done the opening to Scott Pilgrim, Junior Seniors – move your feet, and the opening of The I.T crowd.  The Junior Senior video and the opening of the I.T Crowd connects because they used the same kind of graphics in both. Shynola made a video for Queens of the stone age and Junior Seniors. They’ve been given the NVA award.

Michael Bay was born in Los Angeles, California, U.S. in 1965. Two films that he’s best known for are Bad boys, and The Island. His favourite actor to work with is Sean Connelly, two artists that he made music videos for are Tina Turner and Meatloaf. He’s won 6 awards. He uses a lot of helipcopter scenes and explosions in his films, and he re-makes action and horror movies.

Michel Gondry was born in 1963 in France, two artists that he made videos for are the white stripes, and qui qui. He won an Oscar for the movie ‘The eternal sunshine at the spotless mind’,. The talk talk advert was influenced by the video Gary Jules – Mad world. He was a drummer for the band Qui qui, and in the White Stripes video, Hardest Button to Button, 32 drum kits were used.

Anton Corbijn was born in Neverlands, his first occupation was a music photographer, he’s photographed for U2 and David Bowie. His first ever coloured music video was in 1989, and he gained inspiration from Lee fried Lander and Joy Division. He expresses Christianity through his work to express his own beliefs, and the similarities between his photography and his filmed are the Christianity that’s shown, and them being black and white.