Auteur Research & Influences

Spike Jonze's - Music Video Director:

Music Video Directed by Spike Jonze's:

Using a surrealist base for the video.
The director - Spike Jonze's represents the
adults as youths in the video.
Showing the youths as Gangsters and high flyer's.
the lyrics are contradicting Notorious's hard upbringing
to the extravagant lifestyle he is living now.
The group was inspired by the use of representing the
youth, therefore we would like to integrate that in to
our music video.

Chris Cunningham - Director:

Music Video Directed by Chris Cunningham


The inspirations I got from this video was the surrealist affect. Stepping out the box Chris allows the performer to be in the video without acutely being in it. The women have beautiful bodies with face of the Aphex twins. This surrealist effect is really inspiring and i would like to integrate a similar aspect in to our music video.
The conventions of a hip hop video remain the same too; such as the flash cars, half naked women, dancing around the men, the show of power, money and sexuality.
The prolonged conversation draws the audience in to the video because of the funny way the guy is trying to chat up two beautiful women, who don't like him and end up arguing with each other.

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