Samuel Bayer Auteur

Samuel Bayer is a well respected music video director, who had created music videos for many highly respected artists such as Madonna, Justin Timberlake and Nirvana.

Samuel Bryer tells a story through the music video to give the audience something to focus on and give them more visual effects along with a strong audio backbone. His music videos require little light and tend to be focused on one or two colours to keep the effect continuous his music videos  are powerful and have led the way for other younger directors to follow in pursuit of his style.

Below is a  Nirvana music video created by Samuel bayer, you'll notice how something is always happening on the screen to keep the audience interested and enticed.




Samuel's work artistry also includes:

. Green Day- American idiot


. Justin Timberlake- What goes around comes around


. Robbie Williams- Angel


His work is probably the most famous out of the three "Auteurs" I have studied he has done work for the bigger stars and created the more well known music videos which shows he certainly fixed the category

Michel Gondry Auteur

Michel Gondry is certainly an auteur as he has created a totally different style to fit in with the post modernism world we live in now. Michel created a documentary style music video in the Bjork- Declare independence music video -(shown below)-  their is certainly a dark twisted element about his music videos almost as if they are trying to make the audience thing about the actions being shown rather than the song actually giving off the message.

Famous works of Michel Gondry include:
Bjork- Declare Independence
The White Stripes- Fell in love with a white girl

Michel Gondry shows off messages with objects that may seem random to the audience the objects give off the "Amateur" effect rather than the "Auteur" effect but never the less his style is very memorable and stays in the mind of those watching it.

Music Video Auteurs

Chris Cunningham

He is a music director and an established one at that. His work is well known and he has been labelled as an auteur due to what he has created via his directing.

His music videos contain dark concepts with little light, this could be to give off a dramatic effect to the audience and also to promote the horror genre to the audience and give them a kind of scare.  The music Videos are meant to unsettle us and make us worried about what will come next while it also follows the beat of the music and the lyrics involved.




Below is a still from the music Video "Frozen" which Chris Cunningham directed again this shows the dark un colourful "horror style" theme. Full of sadness due to the lack of colour and the posture shown  and the facial expression also.

Music and Me: Class Discussion

We had a conversation (me our class and my teacher) about songs that represent our life. Mostly peoples music taste from what I've heard is derived from their parents and family. my music tastes are extremely different compared to others who have a strong attachment to heavy metal and loud rock and roll music.

These statistics show that we differ in terms of our preferred genre of music but as you could see from the class all the music was mainly recognisable and enjoy from everyone who heard it.

The person below seems to have done the most effort in creating their Music and Me post, they have clearly had a lot of thought going into it and have included significant music videos that represents important things about them.

http://chchsmediasbraziera2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/music-and-me.html

Post Modernism Key Terms

Post Modernism key terms definitions 

Simulacra:- a term coined up by Jean Baudrillard in 1981, is an image or representation, which in basic terms mean something in the world of television that no longer has an original. Baudrillard basically explained that simulacrum is substituting the signs of the real for the real. Such as the McDonald's logo being essentially representing a place of food without any guarantee of food. Other examples of this include a kings crown which represents all of the kings power and importance but its still just a crown which doesn't truly mean power or importance.

Simulation- an act or something that does not actually occur in real life such as a fake world an example of this is disneyland as Baudrillard argued that Disneyland was neither real or fake as it is physically real but it is a made up and "de-real" place as it was created artificially such as Nemesis in Alton Towers representing an alien world we know its not really an alien place but it is created to do so.

Hyper Reality- Baudrillard argues that pure reality is non existent and that everything we do is controlled. Such a higher authority such as the illuminati, Baudrillard wanted to expose the "Open Secret" which was furthered on by a man named Mcdougan. Both philosophers were very controversial as people were very close minded and refused to believe that there whole existence could be a false reality.