Reinventing Music Video
Next-generation directors, their inspiration and work
- 1st Edition - June 16, 2006
- Imprint: Focal Press
- Author: Matt Hanson
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 9 2 7 4 0 - 4
This is a unique title; no current showcase of the best contemporary music videos exists, despite the area being a popular, flourishing hub of creative activity. If you want to… Read more
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This is a unique title; no current showcase of the best contemporary music videos exists, despite the area being a popular, flourishing hub of creative activity. If you want to succeed in this area, you need this book!
Reinventing Music Videos provides a showcase of the best of the next generation of international music video directors, who are creating work for best-selling and cutting-edge music artists. The up and coming are contrasted with an ‘icons of the genre' section on big name music video directors such as Chris Cunningham and Spike Jonze to give the complete overview of this area.
Stunning visuals dominate the book, along with questions and answers with the creators, and their sketches, treatments, and test visuals. This is an invaluable reference guide, a source of inspiration and process with an exploration of the underlying technologies and techniques alongside the showcase for everyone working in music videos and those wanting to get into this highly sought after genre of filmmaking.
Reinventing Music Videos provides a showcase of the best of the next generation of international music video directors, who are creating work for best-selling and cutting-edge music artists. The up and coming are contrasted with an ‘icons of the genre' section on big name music video directors such as Chris Cunningham and Spike Jonze to give the complete overview of this area.
Stunning visuals dominate the book, along with questions and answers with the creators, and their sketches, treatments, and test visuals. This is an invaluable reference guide, a source of inspiration and process with an exploration of the underlying technologies and techniques alongside the showcase for everyone working in music videos and those wanting to get into this highly sought after genre of filmmaking.
* This is an invaluable, high-profile resource on a "hot button" area of filmmaking with insider information not available elsewhere
* Contains visuals from high-profile, internationally best-selling music artists
* Learn from a renowned authority on ‘alternate' moving image
* Contains visuals from high-profile, internationally best-selling music artists
* Learn from a renowned authority on ‘alternate' moving image
Music video/film producers; Graphics designers/producers; Animators
Foreword
Interstitial
Fade in: the importance of music video
Flash cuts, whip pans: a quick visual history
Freeze frame: Icons of the genre
Fine Cuts: How to make a better video
Digital age music video: The Directors
Adam Levite AKA Associates in Science
Bessy & Combe
Brand New School
+Cruz
Ben Dawkins
Chris Milk
Hideaki Motoki
Musashi Muto
NE-O
Jonas Odell
Pleix
Ramon & Pedro
Martin De Thurah
Vernie Yeung
Woof Wan-Bau
Appendix
Glossary
Selected bibliography
Index & acknowlegements
Interstitial
Fade in: the importance of music video
Flash cuts, whip pans: a quick visual history
Freeze frame: Icons of the genre
Fine Cuts: How to make a better video
Digital age music video: The Directors
Adam Levite AKA Associates in Science
Bessy & Combe
Brand New School
+Cruz
Ben Dawkins
Chris Milk
Hideaki Motoki
Musashi Muto
NE-O
Jonas Odell
Pleix
Ramon & Pedro
Martin De Thurah
Vernie Yeung
Woof Wan-Bau
Appendix
Glossary
Selected bibliography
Index & acknowlegements
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 16, 2006
- Imprint: Focal Press
- Language: English
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Matt Hanson
World leading authority on film and contemporary trends in moving image. An expert in field of music videos and their creators. In 1996 he founded the digital film festival onedotzero, cited by The Guardian as 'probably the most influential film festival of the early 21st century'. He currently runs his own creative studio, V.I.A. developing pioneering moving image projects. He has produced and commissioned over 40 digital films, devised two tv series on pioneering digital filmmakers, and produced a pioneering hybrid VJ/live film performance with the Light Surgeons, which toured internationally to rave reviews. Previous books include The End of Celluloid (RotoVision), and Motion Blur (Laurence King).
Affiliations and expertise
Writer and filmmaker, named as "an international film visionary" by Screen International magazine. He currently runs V.I.A.(Visual Intelligence Agency) which specializes in the advanced moving image: writing, research and consultancy. He is the author of End of Celluloid published by Rotovision. A recognized authority and spokesperson in the field of digital film and emerging film futures.