Chris Cunningham – Chris is an English music video director, most noted for his work on the video "Come to daddy" by Aphex Twin which was voted the 17th best video of all time by the readers of Q music magazine. The dark lighting, recurring face of Richard D. James (often distorted when show on a television screen) and the intimidating setting of the ‘Come to daddy’ video all add to the scary and slightly surreal element that is placed on the song in a loose narrative within the video. The idea and context of this video works perfectly with this song as the song itself features shouts and screams within it, which works perfectly with the overall ‘scary’ image. 
Both this video and the video for "Windowlicker" by Aphex Twin feature fast camerawork and fact cuts in the editing process, this is because of the type of music the video is set to, and as it is drum and bass verging on electronica it warrants these fast cuts and fast camerawork. Otherwise the video would look wrong, or ‘out of place’ combined with a song like this.
Other notable Chris Cunningham video include:
· "Second Bad Vilbel" - Autechre
· "Only You" - Portishead
· "Frozen" - Madonna
· "Afrika Shox" - Leftfield featuring Afrika Bambaataa
· "Come On My Selector" - Squarepusher
· "All Is Full of Love" - Björk
Shynola – is the name of a group of, then, 4 visual artists who met in 1994 at The Kent Institute of Art and Design, and are now based in London. They have collaborated on several projects, but most notably on several music videos for pioneering artists. These four artists being Gideon Baws, Chris Harding, Richard Kenworthy and Jason Groves, however Gideon Baws passed away in 2008 aged 33. Their latest project, ‘Strawberry swing’ – Coldplay, is an incredible work of art as the video features the lead singer Chris Martin lying on the road, on top of elaborate chalk backgrounds that are cleverly draw onto the tarmac. This video uses the idea of stop motion but in a completely unique way as it is always the drawn-on background that is changing, this makes the video extremely repeatable and enjoyable many times over as the viewer always finds new bits in it. At the end of the video the animation stops and Chris Martin gets up and walks away reminding the audience of just how it was done and the techniques used.
The music video for "Strawberry Swing" premiered on 4 Music and Channel 4 on 29 July 2009 and later in 2009 it was nominate
d for the ‘best animation in a video’ category at the UK music video awards.
Other notable works by Shynola are:
· Guns Blazing - UNKLE
· On The Double - Grooverider vs. Cypress Hill
· Pyramid Song - Radiohead
· Eye for an Eye - U.N.K.L.E
· You Got the Style - Athlete
· Go with the Flow - Queens of the Stone Age
· E – pro - Beck
Jonas Åkerlund – is a Swedish born music and film director, he is best known for his work on music videos which are often mock movie trailers or short films.
Arguably one of his best known videos is that of The Prodigy – ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ in which all the camera work is point of view from one character and their night out in the city. It features drinking and driving, snorting cocaine, violence, vandalism, nudity and sex. The unedited version also including a scene of heroin use and a hit and run incident. The lead character then takes a stripper home, has sex with her and then as the stripper leaves with her belongings, the lead character glances in the mirror and reveals themselves to be a woman; who then promptly passes out on the bed.
Despite the many controversial aspects of this video, (most notably it was acc
used of promoting violence toward women) it was nominated for four MTV music video awards, winning best dance video and best breakthrough video. The first time The Prodigy actually viewed this video; they did not like it at all and refused to release it but Åkerlund persisted, and rang them up a few months later to ask them to watch it again, once they finally relented and watched it again, they found it to be in fact an incredible piece of work and that this time round the appreciated it to its full extent and released it immediately.
Other Jonas Åkerlund videos worth noting include:
• James Bond Theme - Moby
Both this video and the video for "Windowlicker" by Aphex Twin feature fast camerawork and fact cuts in the editing process, this is because of the type of music the video is set to, and as it is drum and bass verging on electronica it warrants these fast cuts and fast camerawork. Otherwise the video would look wrong, or ‘out of place’ combined with a song like this.
Other notable Chris Cunningham video include:
· "Second Bad Vilbel" - Autechre
· "Only You" - Portishead
· "Frozen" - Madonna
· "Afrika Shox" - Leftfield featuring Afrika Bambaataa
· "Come On My Selector" - Squarepusher
· "All Is Full of Love" - Björk
Shynola – is the name of a group of, then, 4 visual artists who met in 1994 at The Kent Institute of Art and Design, and are now based in London. They have collaborated on several projects, but most notably on several music videos for pioneering artists. These four artists being Gideon Baws, Chris Harding, Richard Kenworthy and Jason Groves, however Gideon Baws passed away in 2008 aged 33. Their latest project, ‘Strawberry swing’ – Coldplay, is an incredible work of art as the video features the lead singer Chris Martin lying on the road, on top of elaborate chalk backgrounds that are cleverly draw onto the tarmac. This video uses the idea of stop motion but in a completely unique way as it is always the drawn-on background that is changing, this makes the video extremely repeatable and enjoyable many times over as the viewer always finds new bits in it. At the end of the video the animation stops and Chris Martin gets up and walks away reminding the audience of just how it was done and the techniques used.
The music video for "Strawberry Swing" premiered on 4 Music and Channel 4 on 29 July 2009 and later in 2009 it was nominate
d for the ‘best animation in a video’ category at the UK music video awards.Other notable works by Shynola are:
· Guns Blazing - UNKLE
· On The Double - Grooverider vs. Cypress Hill
· Pyramid Song - Radiohead
· Eye for an Eye - U.N.K.L.E
· You Got the Style - Athlete
· Go with the Flow - Queens of the Stone Age
· E – pro - Beck
Jonas Åkerlund – is a Swedish born music and film director, he is best known for his work on music videos which are often mock movie trailers or short films.
Arguably one of his best known videos is that of The Prodigy – ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ in which all the camera work is point of view from one character and their night out in the city. It features drinking and driving, snorting cocaine, violence, vandalism, nudity and sex. The unedited version also including a scene of heroin use and a hit and run incident. The lead character then takes a stripper home, has sex with her and then as the stripper leaves with her belongings, the lead character glances in the mirror and reveals themselves to be a woman; who then promptly passes out on the bed.
Despite the many controversial aspects of this video, (most notably it was acc
used of promoting violence toward women) it was nominated for four MTV music video awards, winning best dance video and best breakthrough video. The first time The Prodigy actually viewed this video; they did not like it at all and refused to release it but Åkerlund persisted, and rang them up a few months later to ask them to watch it again, once they finally relented and watched it again, they found it to be in fact an incredible piece of work and that this time round the appreciated it to its full extent and released it immediately.Other Jonas Åkerlund videos worth noting include:
• James Bond Theme - Moby
• Smack My Bitch Up - The Prodigy
• Ray of Light - Madonna
• Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica
• Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
• Corruption - Iggy Pop
• The Everlasting Gaze - The Smashing Pumpkins
• Me Julie - Ali G and Shaggy
• Beautiful - Christina Aguilera
• Beautiful Day - U2
• I Miss You - blink-182
• Paparazzi - Lady Gaga
• When Love Takes Over - David Guetta featuring Kelly Rowland
• We Are Golden – Mika
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