Jamie Thraves

This was the case study that we had a look at

The Director was Jamie Thraves who was a British Writer and Director, he made short films at university to try and get used to the equipment during his time. he used his award winning short film as a "Calling Card" to get his "Foot In The Door" with the video production company factory films. He began his shooting with three very low budget music videos that cost about £5000 each. His biggest creation was the amazing cold play's music video called the Scientist that won three Moon Men awards at the 2003 VMA's.

One music video that Jamie Thraves helped make was the song "Just" by Radiohead, this was a very successful music video because everyone that watched it was baffled by what the man had actually said to make everyone else lay down by the side of him.




Another music video that Jamie Thraves helped make was the song "The scientist" by cold play, this was a very successful song because it showed a story of the mans past in the last 4 minutes or so, the video goes backwards from start to finish that makes it effective