Jospeh Kahn

Joseph Kahn is an American music video director who actually begun his career by shooting skateboard videos of his mates whilst having many jobs at the same time to fund the projects.

Unlike most directors, Joseph is not assigned to just one genre although he has done a lot of work in the pop genre as appose to others.

He has directed some extremely successful songs such as 'Hero' by Enrique Inglesias, 'Knights of Cydonia' by Muse, 'Love game' by Lady Gaga, in which I found something quite funny in the video as there's a close up on Lady gaga's heels of the brand Channel which means she is advertising them for popularity which is all she is really about and that's why she wears loads of weird costumes just to be a centre of attraction.

This is a very impressive and emotional showcase/narrative based video, called 'hero' by Enrique Inglesias. Its about a man who promises to stand by his woman at all times no matter what happens and in the case of the video a mafia type gang beats him up and he still returns to his newly wedded wife to sing his final words.

This is 'knights of cydonia' by Muse, which is a very impressive narrative based music video by Joseph Kahn, although it is quite strange as it's about people in cowboy times, but there are futuristic props e.g holograms of moving images and cds. There are a lot of fades and overlaps throughout the video as well because there's a lot happening in the video.