Jamie Thraves Case Study

   Jamie Thraves Case Study

Jamie Thraves is a director for music videos and studied and made short films at university (Royal College of Arts)

He used an award winning short film as a 'calling-card' to get a foot in the door with the video production company Factory Films.

He began shooting three very low budget music videos costing about £5000 each.

As can be seen for many directors in the business, it is a precarious experience where their livelihood it is dependant on each commission. 

Jamie Thraves submitted treatments for his two best known videos and each video was accepted. 

COLDPLAY -THE SCIENTIST

The music video for 'The Scientist' took 3 days to to shoot and it had a budget of £200,000.
The video was filmed normally and then it was pt to be played in reverse. The singer was to learn the song backwards.


JAPANESE POPSTARS - SONG FOR LISA

This song in the most recent song and video Jamie Thraves had worked on. The video had cost about £20,000 and took 2 days to film altogether.


BREAK INTO FILMS:

Jamie has used the music videos to get into the film business and has so far shot three different features. The Low Down, The Cry Of The Owl and Treacle Jr. Jamie's tips on filming a music video are; use the lyrics but try not to be too literal and most importantly, go with the emotion of the lyrics.

KATIE B - BROKEN RECORD -DIRECTED BY JAMIE THRAVES




TOM ODELL - ANOTHER LOVE