Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze (October 22nd 1969, Rockville) is a American director, screenwriter and actor who has made many famous and influential videos many music videos and movies. He has not got a style that is intantly reconizable when an audience seeing his videos that it is he who has designed them, however he does have certain themes that are recurring throught his videos.

Spike often has the theme of comedy in his media, it tends to be jolly and not serious with simple comedic content that anyone can uderstand so will usally suit any audience. This can be simple things like taking a simple act such as playing golf that fit within the confines of realty and exaggerating it to have it being played over a city. The exagerating of actions is a recurring theme. Having everything that is still got a .The videos are often hectic in the middle and edited into quick short scenes to give the idea of speed. In contrast to this the Bjork video is a one shot single video that is continuos. another reacurring style is the single charcacter slow introduction that is setting the scene, then a contrast into a fast paced middle with crowds of people for the main aspect of the video. What he film are often based around a single simple idea such as dancing which is regulary theme of perticularly music because that is a related subject matter. There are no digital special effects in the majority of the videos he creates which gives it a simple style that looks like it is possible for people to copy, since they wouldn't need a media studio with expensive computers. He simply rely upon clever camer angles and shooting techniques that work with the videos content and audio that suits the pacing and genre of the video.