Friday, 2 December 2011

Music Video Directors- Michel Gondry





Michel Gondry is a French film maker. He is an academy award winner and is highly respected and well known music producer.  Michel Gondry has directed films, Documentary's films and and even adverts for well known brands such as Adidas, Coca Cola, Nike and Smirnoff. These brands are very popular and to direct these type   of advertisements you have to be a well sort of director and very well trusted director.He first started of as film maker, creating music videos for a French rock band Oui Oui. He was also a drummer in this band. This started his love for creating and directing music videos for bands. During this time, Rock singer Björk was highly impressed with the way Michel directed his video and the style in which he did so. Due to this, Björk asked Michel direct a video for her, this was just the start of a very popular career.Michel has gone over to direct over 7 videos of Björk and from this they have a very good friendship. Michel since then has gone to direct music videos for popular bands such as Daft Punk, The Chemical Brothers,  The vines and Radiohead.







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