Music video directors

1. Music Video Directors
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2. Colin Tilley
 Colin Tilley is an award winning music video direction who has directed and
written many music videos for popular artist such as Enrique Iglesias, Chris
Brown, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Jason Derulo, Usher, UK rapper such as
Dappy, Chipmunk and Plan B.
 He is notable for working with Chris Brown who he has worked in 19 music
video projects with. He has directed every single from Chris Brown gold
certified album ‘F.A.M.E’ except for beautiful people.
 Colin Tiley has won many awards ranging from Video of the Year at the 2011
BET Awards for Chris Brown’s ‘Look At Me Now’ video and Best Male Video at
the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards for Justin Bieber ‘U Smile’.
 Colin Tilley is currently nominated for Director Of The Year at the 2014 BET
Awards.

3. Hype Williams
 Harold Williams is an American music video and film director.
 Williams has created a number of music videos for many artists, including 2pac – California Love,
Kanye West – Gold Digger, Heartless and All of the Lights, Ne-Yo – So Sick and Beyonce – Drunk in
Love and many more top artists.
 Awards Williams has received for his video work include the Billboard Music Video Award for Best
Director of the Year (1996), the Jackson Limo Award for Best Rap Video of the Year (1996) for Busta
Rhymes' "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check", the NAACP Image Award (1997), the 8th annual Music
Video Production Association Award for Black Music Achievement (1997), MTV Video Music Award in
the Best Rap Video (1998) category for Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy wit It", MTV Video Music Award for
Best Group Video (1999) for TLC's "No Scrubs", and the BET Award for Best Director (2006) for Kanye
West's "Gold Digger". In 2006, Williams was honored by MTV with its Video Vanguard Award,
presented in honor of his achievements as a filmmaker.
 signature style used by Williams throughout the vast majority of his videos (shot mostly with
cinematographer John Perez) was the Fisheye lens which distorted the camera view around the
central focus. This was used by the tandem Williams/Perez in "Gimme Some More" by Busta Rhymes
and "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" by Missy Elliott; however, it was dropped by 2003, when he
experienced his lowest level of production activity since the beginning of his career as a music video
director.
 Another "signature style" involves placing shots in regular widescreen ratio, while a second shot is
split and placed in the upper and lower bars an example of an music video which uses this signature
style is Ne-Yo – So Sick.
 Since 2003, Williams has adopted a signature style combining a center camera focus on the artist or
actor's body from the torso upward and a solid color background with a soft different-color light
being shown in the center of the background, so as to give a sense of illumination of the background
by the foreground subject. This has been displayed in "Gold Digger" by Kanye West

4. Anthony Mandler
 Anthony Mandler is an American film, music, television director and
photographer.
 As a music director his most notable and frequent collaborator is Rihanna.
 The two have worked on sixteen music videos together throughout her career,
beginning with Unfaithful in 2006 and most recently Diamonds in 2012.
 He has also written and directed music videos for many other prominent
artists including big stars like; Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Eminem, Usher, Shakira, Taylor
Swift, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, 50 Cent, Ne-Yo, Nicki Minaj, Cheryl Cole,
Mary J Blige, fun. and Lana Del Rey.
 The videos he directs have one thing in common and that is the there is an
element of performance of the artist and an element of narrative. With
artists like Rihanna, Beyonce and Selena Gomez a lot of different coloured
filters are used in which emphasises the scene, e.g. In the video ‘Only Girl In
The World’ – a warm, pink filter is used to emphasis the song of ‘only girl’.

5. Spike Jonze
 Spike Jonze is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor, whose work
includes music videos, commercials, film and television.
 Jonze is well known for his music video collaborations with Fatboy Slim, Weezer
and Beastie Boys.
 Jonze has many alter egos, including Richard Koufey (alternately spelled Coufey or
Couffe), the leader of the Torrance Community Dance Group, an urban troupe that
performs in public spaces. The Koufey persona appeared when Jonze, in character,
filmed himself dancing to Fatboy Slim's "The Rockafeller Skank" as it played on a
boom box in a public area. Jonze showed the video to Slim, who appears briefly in
the video.
 Jonze then assembled a group of dancers to perform to Slim's "Praise You" outside
a Westwood, California movie theater and taped the performance. The resulting
clip was a huge success, and "Koufey" and his troupe were invited to New York City
to perform the song for the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. The video received
awards for Best Direction, Breakthrough, and Best Choreography.
 Jonze directed the music video for "Otis" the second single from the album Watch
The Throne by Jay-Z and Kanye West. On November 3, 2013, Jonze directed the
live music video for Arcade Fire's "Afterlife" and documented Lady Gaga’s live
performance of "Dope" with Chris Milk for the YouTube Music Awards.

6. Jake Nava
 Jake Nava is an English music video and film director.
 Nava placed fifth in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Music Video Directors"
list for 2011, with videos for Adele's "Someone Like You" and Kanye West's
"Monster". Nava is widely known for his collaborations with Beyoncé, including
the videos for "Crazy in Love" and "Single Ladies." Single Ladies was listed by
The Times at third position in "The 25 Most Influential Music Videos of All
Time", It is charted as the 3rd most downloaded video and won "Video of the
Year" at the MTV Video Music Award, MTV Europe Music Awards, and BET
Awards.
 Well known music videos that Jake Nava has directed are; Beyonce – Single
Ladies and Crazy in Love, Usher – Burn, Lana Del Ray – Shades of Cool, Shakira
– She Wolf, Enrique Iglesias – Not In Love and many more.