S P I K E J ON Z E

A UT EUR R ES EA RC H

S P I K E J ON Z E

• Spike Jonze was born on 22nd October 1969

• Studied at the San Francisco Art Intitute

• Started out as a Skate photographer

• Became active in commercials and music videos in 1989

• Known for feature films, Being John Malkovich, Where The Wild Things Are and Her.

W H AT M A K E S J O N Z E A N A U T E U R ?

• Jonze works with certain people on a regular basis on different projects.

• He mostly directs off-beat videos which are elaborate in their visual storytelling and often combine different mediums to produce the ultimate end result.

T RA D E M A R K S

• Cinematography - Lance Acord

• Writer - Charlie Kaufman

• Actor - Chris Cooper

A RC A D E F I R E - A FT E R L I F E ( L I V E AT YO U T U B E M U S I C AWA R D S )

• Jonze created this music video live during the YouTube Music Awards. Though the concept itself is big, a music video created live on a web-streamed event. The video itself, a dance routine. Is almost equal in terms of conceptuality.

• Link: https://youtu.be/tBTTd0gfkn0

DA FT PU N K - DA F U N K

• One of Jonze's breakout music videos, Da Funk is about a dog with human like features, who's trying to fit in. The music video is structured like a film, the opening titles follow a conventional title sequence and the 'title' for the video is 'Big City Nights' which is more relatable towards the story of the video and not the song, which is an instrumental Daft Punk track. It combines puppetry and live action, which follows Spike Jonze's signature style.

• Link: https://youtu.be/mmi60Bd4jSs