MS - Auteuer Videos

An autuer is defined as a filmaker, usually a drector, who has has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her work. We have been looking at auteurs during our media studies lessons to give us some ideas of what other music videos are about other then the conventional mainstream ones. Watching these videos has enabled us to get alternative ideas. If everyone just watched mainstream videos then all videos would look similar, but watching these auteurs videos have given us ideas of what else could be possible and has encouraged us to 'think outside the box'. I looked at the 'House of cards' by Radiohead, this was directed by James Frost. This was a very interesting video as there was no lights or cameras were used, it was filmed using 3D pltting equipment. This gave the video an extremely unique look. Although i realise that we would never be able to produce anything like this in our own video due to budget, it was still a good video to watch. Another video that I watched was 'Mad World' by Gary Jules. This video was directed by Micheal Gondry. It is particularly interesting as the images are being depicted using children on the pavement. It is quite a simple but effective video, it could be another video to consider when making are own video

Examples of Auteur's videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nTFjVm9sTQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4