Jamie Thraves is a british film writer & director born in 1969. Although now he is soley doing films he did start off as a music video director, for this reason I have decided to find out about him and see the type of things he does in his own work and maybe try and incorprate it into my own.
At university Thraves made short films and used an award winning film he made as a 'calling card' to get a 'foot in the door' with the video production company 'Factory Films'. He began his music video career by shooting 3 very low budget videos costing around £5000 each. Obviously these videos went very well because he was the chosen director of possibly the biggest british bands of our time, Radiohead and Coldplay. These two videos combined cost £300,000 and made in 3 days each. This is a massive sum of money and a lot of time to put into a music video nowadays, as currently the average cost and time of making one is £20,000 and 2 days.
As I have said before Thraves only wanted to make music videos to get into the film business, this has been very successful as since then he has shot 3 features; The Low Down, The Cry of the Owl and Treacle Jr. Although mainly a film director Thraves does still enjoy making the occasional music video, for example in 2010 he directed Dizzee Rascals 'Dirtee Disco'. Overall Jamie Thraves has made 20 music videos (4 of which being last year) & 10 films, all of these being since 1991.
In an interview with Thraves he's tips for making a good music video was to: use the lyrics but not too literally, and to go with the emotion of the lyrics. As he is a great, British music director I will be taking these on board and try and use this in the one I am currently working on.
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