Michel Gondry

Michel Gondry

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  Michel Gondry 1963 - present
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  Michel Gondry isvery focused on creating visuals to the audience which represent each individual part of a track. This is why I am particularly fond of his work. He firstly starts on paper, drawing symbols and dashes for each beat and sound and then sets out to assign a relevant object/image to these. An image of his planning for the video ‘Star Guitar’ Gondry tends not to set out to achieve a narrative piece but one which engages the audience through stimulating and exciting visuals. Gondry also produces videos for predominantly mainstream artists such as Paul McCartney and Radiohead.
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  Examples of hiswork • Daft Punk – Around The World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4&ob=av2e • Kylie Minogue – Come Into My World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vqob-MljQ&ob=av2e • The Chemical Brothers – Star Guitar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S43IwBF0uM&ob=av2e • The White Stripes – Fell In Love With A Girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q27BfBkRHbs • Michael Andrews and Gary Jules – Mad World http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3N1MlvVc4
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  Daft Punk –Around The World This is my favourite video by Michel Gondry. I really enjoy how the mise-en- scene is manipulated in order to represent each individual element of the song. Gondry described (in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RYzYPaPpYs) how he created all of the characters based of the different elements of the song i.e. vocals, keyboard, bass, drum and guitar. For example the tall guys with the small head represent the bass and the skeletons represent the guitar. Gondry described the guitar in this song as “itchy” and he immediately thought of a skeleton as being something which is quite itchy. Keyboard Each step down represents a new “Itchy” guitar beat. They are dressed as athletes as they need to be fit in order to keep up with the fast tempo