Background:
- American music video and film director of African-American and Honduran descent. His nickname "Hype" comes from his hyperactive nature as a child.
- Williams first displayed his work by tagging local billboards, storefronts, and playgrounds using HYPE as his graffiti tag. "That's probably what stimulated my interests in color," he says. "I wanted to be Basquiat or Keith Haring of the streets."
Some of the music videos he has made:
Coldplay's music video shows the band performing against a blurry, warped version of Eugène Delacroix's painting La Liberté guidant le peuple.
Coldplay's music video shows the band performing against a blurry, warped version of Eugène Delacroix's painting La Liberté guidant le peuple.
Hype Williams take the idea from 'Enter The Void' to add text of different fonts and colours in between the filmed sections with some lyrics from the song. It features strobe-lit images of Rihanna, Kanye West and Kid Cudi.
Spike Jonze
Background:
- American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television.
- He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich and the 2002 film Adaptation, and for his work as director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are.
Some of the music videos he has made:
- This is Spikes most resent music video featuring Jay-z and Kanye West, the setting is a factory or a warehouse, were they are taking apart a car and switching the inside, so that the front is the back and the back is the front. The are some cross-cutting between Both of the singers in front of a blue metal wall with an American flag on it and the car when being modified and then driven by the singers.
