Thursday, September 25, 2008

Music Video Director Analysis

I tried to find out who directed the original Gold - Spandau Ballet music video but i couldn't find the information anywhere. HOWEVER I did find out that Band member Gary Kemp started writing this as a spoof of James Bond theme songs (specifically Goldfinger) which i thought was quite interesting. Anyway i decided to look into other music video directors...
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Jonas Odell
Information obtained from wikipedia

- DOB - 10th November 1962, Stockholm Sweden
-a swedish music/film video director
-founder of 'FilmTecknarna'
-specialises in a mix of animation and live action

Videos He's directed
  • Take me out -Franz Ferdinand (for which he received an award for an award for a breakthrough video of the year at the MTV Music Awards 2004, as well as a Grammy nomination.
  • Feeling a moment - Feeder
  • Strict Machine - Goldfrapp


Found this video ('Michael' by Franz Ferdinand) while looking for Franz Ferdinand music directors and i noticed a number of similarities between our music video and the performance in the above video. There are a lot of CU 'beauty shots' of the main vocalist and there are 4 members positioned in basically the same way as in our music video. Both videos also have the same set up i.e. a performance and a narrative.

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