Notes on well known directors...

Helloooooooooo,

So before we can start filming, we thought it best that we take note of some of the professional's works beforehand. The first director we've chosen is Spike Jonze.

Spike Jonze was born in America in the late 1960s. His work includes directiong music videos, commercials, film and television. He was recently director for the 2009 film, 'Where the WIld Things Are'.

Jonze filmed himself as the head of the dance group in the music video 'Rockafeller Skank' by Fatboy Slim. He showed this video to Slim, who loved it, allowing Jonze to find a dance group to film for 'Praise You'. He filmed this outside a cinema in California. They were asked to perform the dance at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. The video won awards for Best Direction, Breakthrough, and Best Choreography.

In 2008, Jonze co -directed the 'Flashing Lights' video by Kanye West with West himself.

The next director I shall make notes on is Mark Romanek.

Romanek was also born in America, in the late 1950s. He's an award winning music video director, who has just gone into directing theatrical films.

Romanek achieved his first Grammy for his Best Short Form Video in 1996 for 'Scream' with Janet and Michael Jackson collaborating in the video.

Romanek is known for his personal and moving videos, with Johnny Cash's cover, 'Hurt'. He has since worked with Jay Z, Madonna and Lenny Kravitz.

We're still trying to work out how to embed videos, so hopefully soon we can add one for 'Hurt'.

Thanks for reading!

Liv, Rache and Mike xxxxxxxxxxxxxx