Music Video Auteurs

Background

• Michael Gondry was born in Versailles, France, May 8th 1963.

• He started as a film maker by making a msuic video for the band Oui Oui.

• He now also makes films as well as music videos.

Similarities

• Gondry directed the music video for Foo Fighters “Everlong” and The White Stripes “Button To Button” and The Rolling Stones “Like A Rolling Stone.”

• In all of the videos, the filming and the cuts were all very unconventional.

• The effect given to the audience is that the videos are representative of dreams.

• An example of this is the video for “Everlong” where he shows the real world in black and white.

Is he an auteur?

• I think it is fair to say that Michael Gondry is a video auteur due to his diverse style of filming and editing.

• His videos are all unconventional• He focuses majorly on mise en scene and

visual effects.