Michael Gondry is a French music video director who funnily enough made his first music video for a French band called Oui Oui which he was the drummer for and this caught the attention of Bjork propelling his career towards being a music video director.
Michael usually plans out all of his music videos by drawing it out using symbols with dashes (representing beats) then later he adds in valid objects, this enables him to create entertaining visuals for the audiences watching.
Michael has produced music
videos for a number of modern mainstream and past mainstream artists including Paul McCartney, Radiohead, Daft punk, Kylie
Minogue, The White Stripes, Kanye West, Foo Fighters and Gary Jules.
To the left is 'Everlong' by the Foo Fighters this is a great example of Michael's work as it is a narrative-based music video along with a bit of showcasing at the end, of the bands. It begins with an establishing shots to show the location of the video. Since the video is fairly scary and horror like, it uses dark lighting to emphasise this.
To the right is 'knives out' by Radiohead, which is a rather strange video as it contains a massive operation table in the form of the game operation with a person in it, but every object in the imagery is significant and reflects the words of the song. There were even moments when I felt real emotions and this is obviously what's Michael was hoping to achieve in the audience watching, as it is possible that the words 'he's not coming back' draws out some personal emotions.
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