Autuer Research - Johnathan Glazer

Autuer Research 

Johnathan Glazer

• Jonathan Glazer (born 26 March 1965) is an English filmmaker, whose directing work includes feature films, music videos and advertisements.

Filmography

Music Videos

• "Karmacoma" by Massive Attack (1995)
• "The Universal" by Blur (1995)
• "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" by Radiohead (1996)
• "Virtual Insanity" by Jamiroquai (1996)
• "Cosmic Girl" (version 2) by Jamiroquai (1997)
• "Into My Arms" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1997)
• "Karma Police" by Radiohead (1997)
• "Rabbit in Your Headlights" by UNKLE ft. Thom Yorke (1998)
• "A Song for the Lovers" by Richard Ashcroft (2000)
• "Live with Me" by Massive Attack (2006)
• "Treat Me Like Your Mother" by The Dead Weather (2009)

Film

• Sexy Beast (2000)
• Birth (2004)
• Under the Skin (2013)

Commercials 

• Kodak: "Husband To Be"
• Pretty Polly: "Linda 2"
• Mazda: "Shock ff the New"
• AT&T: "Chief Executive's Wife"
• Club Med: "City"
• AT&T: "Sales Director"
• Nike: "Frozen Moment" (1996)
• Nike: "Guerrilla Tennis"
• Caffrey's: "New York"
• Nike: "Parklife" (1997)
• Guinness: "Surfer" (March 1999)
• Guinness: "Swimblack" (May 1999)
• Levi Strauss: "Kung Fu" (January 2000)
• Stella Artois (January 2000):
  • "Last Orders"
  • "Devil's Island"
• Volkswagen Polo: "Protection" (January 2000)
• Wrangler: "Whatever You Ride" (May 2000)
• Guinness: "Dreamer" (April 2001)
• Levi Strauss: "Odyssey" (January 2002)
• Barclays (January 2003):
  • "Evil"
  • "Bull"
  • "Chicken"
• Band Aid 20 (December 2004)
  • "Bar"
  • "Double Don"
  • "Rant"
  • "Razor"
• Stella Artois: "Ice Skating Priests" (April 2006)
• Sony BRAVIA: "Paint" (October 2006)
• Motorola Red: "Clay" (unreleased) (December 2006)
• Sony 3D: "Kaka" (June 2010)
• Volkswagen Polo: "Last Tango in Compton" (November 2010)
• Audi: "The Ring" (August 2013)

Autuer Research - Chris Cunningham

Autuer Research 

Chris Cunningham 

• Chris Cunningham is a British video artist. He was born in Reading, Berkshire in 1970 and grew up in Lakenheath, Suffolk. Cunningham has primarily directed music videos for ambient music and electronica acts such as Autechre and Aphex Twin. He has also created art installations and directed short movies. He was approached to direct a movie version of the cyberpunk novel Necromancer, but nothing came of early discussions. In the 2000s, Cunningham began doing music production work. He has also designed album artwork for a variety of musicians.

Videography

• "Second Bad Vilbel" (1996) video for Autechre
• "Back With The Killer Again" (1996) video for The Auteurs
• "Light Aircraft on Fire" (1996) video for The Auteurs
• "Fighting Fit" (1996) video for Gene
• "Another Day" (1996) video for Lodestar
• "Space Junkie" (1996) video for Holy Barbarians
• "36 Degrees" (1996) video for Placebo
• "Personally" (1997) video for 12 Rounds
• "Jesus Coming in for the Kill" (1997) video for Life's Addiction
• "The Next Big Thing" (1997) video for Jesus Jones
• "Tranquillizer" (1997) video for Geneva
• "No More Talk" (1997) video for Dubstar
• "Something to Say" (1997) video for Jocasta
• "Come to Daddy" (1997) video for Aphex Twin
• "Sport is Free" (1997) - commercial for ITV
• "Fetish" (1998) - commercial for NUS
• "Clip Clop" (1998) commercial for XFM London
• "Only You" (1998) video for Portishead
• "Frozen" (1998) video for Madonna
• "Come On My Selector" (1998) video for Squarepusher
• "Engine" (1999) commercial for Nissan. Featuring music by Boards of Canada
• "All Is Full of Love" (1999) video for Björk
• "Windowlicker" (1999) video for Aphex Twin
• "Afrika Shox" (1999) video for Leftfield and Afrika Bambaataa
• "Mental Wealth" (1999) commercial for Sony PlayStation
• "Photocopier" (unreleased) commercial for Levi's
• "Flex" (2000) video installation. Featuring music by Aphex Twin
• "Monkey Drummer" (2001) video installation. Featuring "Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels mount" from Aphex Twin's album Drukqs
• "Up and Down" (2002) - commercial for Levi's
• "Photo Messaging" (2003) commercial for Orange
• "Rubber Johnny" (2005) featuring "Afx237 V7" from Aphex Twin's album Drukqs
• "Sheena Is a Parasite" (2006) video for The Horrors
• "Gucci Flora" (2009) commercial for Gucci Perfume
• "New York Is Killing Me (Chris Cunningham Remix)" (2010) video for Gil Scott-Heron
• "Jaqapparatus 1" (2012) robotic art installation performance for Audi City London.
• "Love Is To Die" Multimedia documentary for the album release of Warpaint (2014).

Music Video Timeline

Music Video Timeline

Nickleodeon - Was the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion films. These small theatres charged five cents to get in, this idea flourished from 1905 to 1915.

Soundies - Soundies were three minute long musical films, they were produced in New York, Chicago and also Hollywood from 1940 and 1946. These also included short dance sequences which then appeared in later music videos.

Scopitone - This was like a juke box but instead it showed short music videos. Based on soundies, the technology developed after world war 2 and shorts film were put together with music and played through a specifically designed jukebox.

Musicals - A music is a film where songs are sung by the characters and interwoven into the narrative, sometimes dancing is also added. Musicals were a development in sound film techonology.

Top of the Pops - It was British music chart made by the BBC and it was shown on television. The programme consisted of preformances from the weeks best selling popular music artists.

Concert movie/film - is a type of documentary film, the subject of which is an extended live preformance or concert by a musician/artist or more recently a comedian.

MTV - MTV is now a 24 hour entertainment channel whereas when it started off it was only a music channel. Over recent years there has been far less music being played and more reality TV shows being played for example: Geordie Shore and Keeping up with the Kardashians. Video Killed a radio star was the first music video to be shown on MTV, the tv channel was launched on the 1st of July 1997.

Youtube - Youtube is a video sharing website. This site allows people to watch clips, upload clips and share clips. Available content includes: music videos, video clips, TV clips, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos and educational videos. Just about any video you want can be uploaded or found on youtube. More and more celebrities are using youtube to upload their latest music videos and to get as many views on them as possible.

Music Video Analysis

Music Video Analysis

Forms and Conventions of a Music Video

Forms and Conventions of a Music Video 

There are many things that need to be included when making a music video, these are some of them:

• Artist 
• Lip Syncing 
• Narrative
• Parallel editing
• Interesting Setting 
• Song in the background 
• Lots of different shots
• Editing in time to the music beat 

Hit Me Baby One More Time Evaluation

Hit Me Baby One More Time Evaluation

In media we have been given a task to film the first 30 seconds of Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time" music video. We started by analysing the clip and finding out what shots there are and how long each of the shots are. We filmed the music video in a group of people as we needed backing dancers and extras. The filming of the music video took approximately 50 minutes. It took long to film as we had to re-film many of the clips as people were laughing and it looked out of beat. I then imported all the clips onto 'Final Cut Express', and chose what clips I was going to use and what ones would be getting deleted. To get the lip syncing right I had to put marks in specific places of the audio wave of the clip and do that for another clip and then aline the marks so that the lip syncing looked perfect. I found this exercise fairly difficult as I was using new skills and when cutting some of the clips the marks would move and the lip syncing would look out of place. 

These two shots were from my remake of the Britney Spears version. These two close up shots of the foot tapping on the table and the clock show the time passing in Britney's life. In the beginning shots Britney looks as if she is bored and waiting eagerly for something to happen. The lyrics "hit me baby one more time' are about a boy. The lyrics are portrayed by Britney's dance moves, she comes across as impatient and eager. The hallway shots show that she is waiting for something to happen, perhaps for this boy to talk to her.

Hit Me Baby One More Time - Practice exercise - Shots

Hit Me Baby One More Time - Practice exercise - Shots

0.00 - 0.06 - Tracking shot of Britney tapping her foot on the table leg.
0.06 - 0.10 - Medium shot of Britney tapping her pencil on a book.
0.10 - 0.11 - Medium shot of the clock. 
0.11 - 0.12 - Medium shot of Britney tapping her pencil whilst looking up at a high angle.
0.12 - 0.13 - Medium/Long shot of the teacher in the classroom.
0.13 - -0.14 - Britney tapping her pencil on the books, leaning her face onto the palm of her hand, looking bored.
0.14 - 0.15 - Close up shot of the clock.
0.15 - 0.16 - Close up shot of the school bell ringing.
0.16 - 0.17 - Shot of the school bags on the floor, you can see the students standing up.
0.18 - 0.19 - Britney is shown standing up from her seat - Medium shot
0.19 - 0.20 - Medium shot of Britney and her classmates leaving the classroom.
0.20 - 0.21 - High angle shot of the classroom doors opening and students running out.
0.21 - 0.22 - Long shot, Britney starting to dance in the hallway.
0.22 - 0.23 - Medium shot of Britney dancing in the hallway.
0.23 - 0.24 - Long shot of Britney singing whilst leaning against a locker.
0.24 - 0.25 - Medium shot of Britney singing against the locker.
0.26 - 0.27 - Long shot of boys walking out a classroom dancing.
0.27 - 0.28 - Close up of Britney dancing in the hallway.
0.28 - 0.31 - Britney along with other girls dancing in the hallway whilst singing - Long shot
0.31 - 0.32 - Long shot of Britney dancing in the hallway, the camera is moving back as they are moving closer to the camera. 
0.32 - 0.33 - High angle shot of Britney signing by the lockers.
0.33 - 0.34 - Close up shot of Britney singing. 
0.34 - 0.35 - Medium shot of the lockers opening in the hallway.
0.35 - 0.36 - Medium shot of a school girl looking at the camera, surprised.
0.36 - 0.36 - Medium shot of a school boy.
0.36 - 0.37 - Long low angle shot of Britney and other school girls dancing.