1. Francis Lawrence
Francis Lawrence is an American film director, film producer,
television producer, television director. Lawrence has
worked with superstars such as Janet Jackson, Jay-Z, lady
Gaga and The Black Eyed Peas. He is currently signed to DNA
inc, a music video production company. Lawrence is very
well known in his field of work and is becoming more and
more respected. Bad Romance by Lady Gaga was one of
Lawrence's biggest successes in the music video industry in
which he was rewarded with a Grammy for the best music
video short form. Lawrence had a big budget for Gaga’s
music video. The filming took two days and was filmed in
studios in L.A.
2. Ruskin Kyle
Ruskin Kyle runs his own independent company called ‘Rivers Rush’ which is a
production company which was founded in 2010. Rivers rush specialise in music
video production and sometimes collaborate with other directors. Kyle has
produced, directed and edited Ed Sheeran’s A Team Video which had a very small
budget of £400 to produce and direct the video. This music video went down to
win a lot of awards for the representation of the song lyrics. The video was first
uploaded to YouTube which is the worlds largest video sharing website. This
director has shown that not all music videos have to have a big budget in order to
be good and successful.
3. Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry’s first music video he made was a
collaboration with the superstar Bjork. Early on
in Gondry’s carreer, he created smaller music
videos for his band in which he was a drummer,
‘Oui Oui.’ Bjork saw Gondry’s music videos and
found that they contained a lot of emotion
within the music videos and liked how Gondry
had directed and edited his music videos and
asked gondry to direct his music videos.
4. Mark Romanek
Roamanek has directed many music videos
ranging from The Eel’s ‘Novocaine for the soul’
to can’t stop’ by The Red Hot Chilli Peppers’. He
most recently has directed Taylor Swift’s ‘Shake
It Off’ music video. Romanek has also won
three Grammy Awards for the best short form
music video. His music videos have also won 20
MTV video music awards including Best
directions for Jay-Z’s ‘99 problems.’
