Little bit of inspiration

With Adam and Jacob working hard with website design, blog research and storyboards, I decided to also contribute a bit more to the blog with a bit of background on the director who is the inspiration of our foetus of a music video, Jonathan Glazer. However i have noticed that no-one has put up the Zzzonked promo video, because of the restictions of the internet at school, we can't save them to the hard drive and embed them. So heres the link ------> ZZZONKED <------ , no back there.

Ok so enough of Shikari and some more of Jonathan glazer, or iTz Glaz0r .x as his xbox live gamertag refers to him.

Jonathan Glazer was born in London in 1966 and after spending a fairly average childhood and school life, he studied theatre design and moved on to nottingham trent university, from there on, Jonathan directed theatre and made movie trailers. Eventually making award winning stuff for BBC. but in the 90's Jonathan really made the headline with his award winning music videos, featuring this beauty in '95 from radiohead. (which is possibly the video we are most inspired by!) Jonathan Made it out to be MTV director of the year in 1997.

With all these music video's Joanthan has also done alot of work in commercials such as the Guiness surfer ad (Swimblack Surfer) and Stella Artois' Devils Island ad. (which is one of my favourite ads of all time :) ) Jonathon has always been praised for his originality in videos and charming, yet sometimes dry wit. His manipulation of time and space within his videos are the main aspect of what really drew him to me, inspiring us in our own work.

Just a quick note, i got some photo's of the storyboards myself and jacob did Wednesday but obviously due to computer restrcitions, i can't upload until im at home. sad, sad face. anyway time for me to look up some more beauties such as Chris Cunningham, with his weird videos and Spike Jonze and his guerilla style filming, to round our film into an INSPIRATION MASTERPIECE - BWAHA.

Till next time :) x