1. Music Video Directors This PowerPoint depicts case studies of the various existing music video directors and describes their work and different styles. This will give me insight not just into the music videos, but also into the music industry and possibly the history of it. It is vital to understand the directors behind music videos as part of beginning this project to understand more into the making of a music video and the various processes. I may find this PowerPoint extremely useful in the research section of this project as I may possibly choose a song in which one of the following music directors has directed and therefore I shall instantly have information based upon the chosen song.

3. Spike Jonze Jonze is an American director, mainly for music videos yet over the past ten years has began to work on films (most well known is being john malkovich) and commercials as well as founding various businesses involved in directing and part-owning businesses. From a young age, he took up photography and began to create magazines with his artistic nature, his interest in magazines allowed him to co found ‘dirt’. He has worked with MTV on more than one occasion, being a creative director to a chorographer as well as documentaries. On music videos, he has directed for Beastie boys a lot as well as REM at the start of his career and then began to shoot for Fatboy slim, the chemical boys, Ludacris, Kanye West. He is one of the few music video directors who has also been successful in directing mainstream films such as ‘where the wild things are’ and producing films such as ‘Synecdoche, New York’