Ray Kay is a Norwegian film director and music video producer known for working with major artists like Lady Gaga and Beyoncé. His videos often use green screen techniques to transport viewers to fantastical worlds. Philip Andelman is an American music video director who often represents female artists like Kelly Rowland and Beyoncé in a sexual manner through camera angles and close-ups of body parts. David Fincher is a renowned American filmmaker who applies his dark, stylish style to music videos for legends like Michael Jackson and The Rolling Stones. He treats music videos like short films.

1. Music Directors Research

2. Ray Kay (Reinert K Olsen) Ray Kay was born in Norway and is a award winning Norwegian film director and photographer Ray Kay is now based in Los Angeles and now works for Rock hard Films Ray Kay is a very successful music video producer and has worked with many award winning artists such as Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Destinys child and Backstreet Boys Some of his most recent successful music videos in 2009 have come from working with the likes of; Cheryl Cole ( fight for this love) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMiy_UsrPDs Sean Paul (so fine) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQgYpnhDIw We can see from the examples of Ray Kays work given above that he has his own specific style in the sense that he likes to use green screen in most of his videos, his extensive use of green screen could be used in order to create a fantasie land as is evident in the Sean Paul video with all the different colors going on in the back due to the use of the green screen which takes the audience to a place they wouldn't have seen before.

3. Philip Andelman Philip is an American video director born in Thailand in 1977 After graduating he spent two years working with ‘Joseph kahn’ who is also a very successful music video director, during these two years Philip worked as a 2 nd unit director. Philip has now gone on to become a very noticeable music video director and has worked with the likes off Jay Z, Kelly Rowland and Beyonce Some of his most recent successful music videos are; Jay Z ( I Know) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KhSjWZIhDQ Kelly Rowland (come back) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcpYyTWIGiI Philip Andelman has a particular style when representing women in his videos, as he uses certain angles and shots that represent the female artists in a sexual nature For example, in the Kelly Rowland video, in the first 24 seconds, Phillip shows close-ups and cuts of different parts of her body like her lips, legs, breasts etc, in a style which he has repeated in other videos.

4. David Fincher David is an academy award nominated American film maker and music video director who is known for his dark and stylish creativity As well as being a music video director his movies such as fight club, Seven and the curious case of Benjamin Button have lead him to be an outstanding movie director and a respected member of the film industry David has also had great success in his music video directing career working with likes of the legendary and late; Michael Jackson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hqHdSpv2_E Rolling Stones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpo5fVUGNG0 Madonna http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsHnROYjdgo Fincher is renowned for his style of making his music video’s in the style of short films as he has looked filmography for various films like; Alien, Fight Club and Seven. Also, he was well known for using a dark and stylish mood in his music video’s, which contrasts the types of films he looks at.

5. Michael Bay Michael Bay was born in 1965, and is an American director and producer. He is mainly acknowledged, for the creation of high-budgeted action films such as; Bad Boys, transformers, Armageddon and Pearl Harbour. As well as directing films, Michael also has directed many music videos, throughout the late 1980s to early millennia. He has worked with the likes of; Aerosmith (Falling In Love) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVByVdCAkTo Tina Turner (Love Thing) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_GtUlBuIb0 Lionel Richie (Do it to Me) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQHW7MQAV8g It is clearly seen that Michael does not use a specific style in his music videos, however it is clearly seen that women that are in the music video, such as Lionel Richie video, are portrayed as sex objects, are dressed in revealing cloths and are made to act in a sexual manor. We can also see that Michael uses a huge range of shots in his music videos such as panning shot, dolly shots and arc shots, his huge range of shots may be down to his career in film making which seems to have helped him in directing music videos as in Aerosmith’s video ‘falling in love’ an action theme seems to have been used with a range of great shots which follows the style of his movie making