Jamie Thraves
Jamie Thraves is a director who started his career by making short films in university. He began filming 3 low budget music videos each with only £5000 each.
Jamie Thraves submitted treatments for his two best known videos and each was accepted.
He started by directing a music video for Radiohead's song "Just" where a man lies on the pavement and is confronted by an angry crowd, this video garnered Thraves a lot of attention for its strong narrative structure and use of subtitles, what the man says to make the crowd lie down at the end of the video still manages to cause great discussion among fans some fifteen years later. He had a budget of £100,000 and shot the video in just 3 days.
His second huge moment in his career was when he made a music video for Cold Play's song "the scientist" In which everything goes backwards in time, This video had a £200,000 budget and was filmed in just 3 days as well.
Jamie Thraves – most recent video – Japanese Popstars – Song for Lisa
Currently videos cost about £20,000
Shooting time – 2 days
Jamie has used the music videos to get into the film business
Has so far shot three features:
The Low Down
The Cry of the Owl
Treacle Jr
Jamie's tips for making music videos:
Use the lyrics but try not to be too literal
Most importantly – go with the emotion of the lyrics
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