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Colin Tilley Colin Tilley is an award winning music video direction who has

directed and written many music videos for popular artist such as Enrique Iglesias, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Jason Derulo, Usher, UK rapper such as Dappy, Chipmunk and Plan B.

He is notable for working with Chris Brown who he has worked in 19 music video projects with. He has directed every single from Chris Brown gold certified album ‘F.A.M.E’ except for beautiful people.

Colin Tiley has won many awards ranging from Video of the Year at the 2011 BET Awards for Chris Brown’s ‘Look At Me Now’ video and Best Male Video at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards for Justin Bieber ‘U Smile’.

Colin Tilley is currently nominated for Director Of The Year at the 2014 BET Awards.

Hype Williams Harold Williams is an American music video and film director.

Williams has created a number of music videos for many artists, including 2pac – California Love, Kanye West – Gold Digger, Heartless and All of the Lights, Ne-Yo – So Sick and Beyonce – Drunk in Love and many more top artists.

Awards Williams has received for his video work include the Billboard Music Video Award for Best Director of the Year (1996), the Jackson Limo Award for Best Rap Video of the Year (1996) for Busta Rhymes' "Woo Hah!! Got You All in Check", the NAACP Image Award (1997), the 8th annual Music Video Production Association Award for Black Music Achievement (1997), MTV Video Music Award in the Best Rap Video (1998) category for Will Smith's "Gettin' Jiggy wit It", MTV Video Music Award for Best Group Video (1999) for TLC's "No Scrubs", and the BET Award for Best Director (2006) for Kanye West's "Gold Digger". In 2006, Williams was honored by MTV with its Video Vanguard Award, presented in honor of his achievements as a filmmaker.

signature style used by Williams throughout the vast majority of his videos (shot mostly with cinematographer John Perez) was the Fisheye lens which distorted the camera view around the central focus. This was used by the tandem Williams/Perez in "Gimme Some More" by Busta Rhymes and "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" by Missy Elliott; however, it was dropped by 2003, when he experienced his lowest level of production activity since the beginning of his career as a music video director.

Another "signature style" involves placing shots in regular widescreen ratio, while a second shot is split and placed in the upper and lower bars an example of an music video which uses this signature style is Ne-Yo – So Sick.

Since 2003, Williams has adopted a signature style combining a center camera focus on the artist or actor's body from the torso upward and a solid color background with a soft different-color light being shown in the center of the background, so as to give a sense of illumination of the background by the foreground subject. This has been displayed in "Gold Digger" by Kanye West

Anthony Mandler Anthony Mandler is an American film, music, television director and

photographer.

As a music director his most notable and frequent collaborator is Rihanna.

The two have worked on sixteen music videos together throughout her career, beginning with Unfaithful in 2006 and most recently Diamonds in 2012.

He has also written and directed music videos for many other prominent artists including big stars like; Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Eminem, Usher, Shakira, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Justin Bieber, 50 Cent, Ne-Yo, Nicki Minaj, Cheryl Cole, Mary J Blige, fun. and Lana Del Rey.

The videos he directs have one thing in common and that is the there is an element of performance of the artist and an element of narrative. With artists like Rihanna, Beyonce and Selena Gomez a lot of different coloured filters are used in which emphasises the scene, e.g. In the video ‘Only Girl In The World’ – a warm, pink filter is used to emphasis the song of ‘only girl’.

Spike Jonze Spike Jonze is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor, whose work

includes music videos, commercials, film and television.

Jonze is well known for his music video collaborations with Fatboy Slim, Weezer and Beastie Boys.

Jonze has many alter egos, including Richard Koufey (alternately spelled Coufey or Couffe), the leader of the Torrance Community Dance Group, an urban troupe that performs in public spaces. The Koufey persona appeared when Jonze, in character, filmed himself dancing to Fatboy Slim's "The Rockafeller Skank" as it played on a boom box in a public area. Jonze showed the video to Slim, who appears briefly in the video.

Jonze then assembled a group of dancers to perform to Slim's "Praise You" outside a Westwood, California movie theater and taped the performance. The resulting clip was a huge success, and "Koufey" and his troupe were invited to New York City to perform the song for the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards. The video received awards for Best Direction, Breakthrough, and Best Choreography.

Jonze directed the music video for "Otis" the second single from the album Watch The Throne by Jay-Z and Kanye West. On November 3, 2013, Jonze directed the live music video for Arcade Fire's "Afterlife" and documented Lady Gaga’s live performance of "Dope" with Chris Milk for the YouTube Music Awards.

Jake Nava Jake Nava is an English music video and film director.

Nava placed fifth in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Music Video Directors" list for 2011, with videos for Adele's "Someone Like You" and Kanye West's "Monster". Nava is widely known for his collaborations with Beyoncé, including the videos for "Crazy in Love" and "Single Ladies." Single Ladies was listed by The Times at third position in "The 25 Most Influential Music Videos of All Time", It is charted as the 3rd most downloaded video and won "Video of the Year" at the MTV Video Music Award, MTV Europe Music Awards, and BET Awards.

Well known music videos that Jake Nava has directed are; Beyonce – Single Ladies and Crazy in Love, Usher – Burn, Lana Del Ray – Shades of Cool, Shakira – She Wolf, Enrique Iglesias – Not In Love and many more.