Television

Types of tv drama: comedy, sit-com, docu-dramas, costume drama, teenage, crime, science fiction, hospital.


Examples of tv dramas/series are: Prison Break, Viva La Bam, Lost, Ghost Whisperer, Skins, The Inbetweeners, 8 Simple Rules, Two and a Half Men, Scrubs and Ugly Betty.


http://www.tv.com/
http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/
http://www.seesaw.com/

In groups, we had to do a presentation on a specific director on Prezi. This software is difficult and confusing to use at first, but proved to be fun and managable once you had gotten used to it. We did our presentation on Wes Anderson and had to note down things about the other directors, from when they presented theirs.

Shynola

• His work is artistic.
• He regularly uses animation.
• Directs a lot of Coldplay, Blur, Lambchop and Radiohead music videos.
• Bold colours were used in these videos to widen the target audience and make the music appear less dull. The music videos were in contrast with the music, as these bands are more relaxed.
• His audience is "mass", middle aged and wealthy.

Hammer and Tongs

• Hammer and Tongs is Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith.
• They directed Vampire Weekend's music video "A Punk."
• Use a variety of different colours.
• The music videos they direct are generally aimed at teens.
• Directed "Son of Rambow," which is aimed at a British audience.

Michel Gondry

•  Michel Gondry is a French man born in May, 1963.
• He has directed music videos for Kanye West, Paul McCartney, Daft Punk and Mia Doi Todd.
• Uses bold colours and has an artistic style.
• Directs The White Stripes' music videos and the Smirnoff commercial.
• Some of his films were criticised for being odd- Science of Sleep wasn't shown everywhere.
• Directed Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
• His audience is mainly artistic, open-minded, imaginative people.

Spike Jonze

• He was born in Rockville, Maryland.
• Directed Being John Malkovich, Jackass and Where The Wild Things Are.
• Jackass is stereotypically aimed at teenage boys.
• Directed a Gap advert which was wild, different and showed how things were to soon "change" at Gap.
• Directed Beastie Boys "Sabotage" music video.

Anton Corbijn

• Born in Netherlands in 1955.
• Filmed videos for Nirvana, Metallica and Depeche Mode.
• Very popular photographer- photographed U2.
• Admires Joy Division and directed a film about their late singer Ian Curtis called Control, which was his first feature film.

Wes Anderson

• Main focus is broken families.
• Wrote Bottle Rocket, Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums with Owen Wilson.
• He has been friends with Owen Wilson since they met at the University of Texas.
• Is a film director, screenwriter, actor and producer of short films and advertisements.
• Uses mainly class British rock in his soundtracks.
• Born in Texas, 1969.
• Directed The Royal Tenenbaums and Fantastic Mr Fox.
• Frequently casts Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Andrew Wilson, Bill Murray, Kumar Pallana, Dipak Pallana, Brian Tenenbaum, Stephen Dignan and Anjelica Huston in his movies.

My favourite out of these directors is either Spike Jonze or Michel Gondry. Michel Gondry because I like how his ideas are always original, creative, odd and require imagination and thought. I also enjoy his visual style and presentation. I love the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind and think that it would be hard for another director to pull off the idea of this film as skillfully and imaginatively, whilst still making it seem real.
I like Spike Jonze because his style is different and individual and he is able to aim different things which he has directed at various audiences in a smart way. Jackass is stereotypically aimed at boys, but I like it a lot. Where the Wild Things Are could be said to be aimed only at children, but I actually think it has a very wide audience and I enjoy how he was able to do this.
My least favourite of these would most likely be Shynola as I think he's creative, but I don't enjoy how he has made the videos and I don't think his attempt to make a wider audience listen to bands like Blur and Coldplay was that original. The videos just contradict the music itself and I don't think he made the music seem any less "boring" to someone who doesn't already enjoy their music.