Mark Romanek (born September 18, 1959) is an American filmmaker whose directing work includes feature films, television, music videos and commercials.
His most notable music videos include:
Hurt- Johnny Cash
Closer- Nine Inch Nails
Bedtime story- Madonna
Scream- Michael and Janet Jackson
Romanek's music videos have won 20 MTV Video Music Awards, including Best Direction for JZ's 99 problems and he has won three Grammy Awards for Best short Film Music Video - more than any other director.
His most iconic works had a lot of close ups featuring either the artists performing their song,
and having a montage of images relating to the lyrics but there are also some random images one wouldn't necessarily link with the song. His style, I believe has elements of concept and spectacle within it.
For example Johnny Cash's Hurt and Fiona Apple Hurt...
Medium shot of the artist.
He also uses a range of shots, like this Arial view of the artist Fiona Apple.
Here I like the way he edited to have more than one screen and also how he changed each screen independently.
The video still has elements of his other works like close ups of the artist and also conceptual images.
Romanek also directed the music video for Taylor Swats lead single Shake it Off, which premiered on August 18, 2014. This Video I think is the most relevant or links closely to the genre our group is thinking of.
The artists has kept some of his original styles for example, close ups of the artists and also some conceptual images like this group of people in the room standing.
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