Music Directors

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A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the coordinator of the musical ensembles in a university, college, or institution (but not usually the head of the academic music department), the head bandmaster of a military band, the head organist and choirmaster of a church, or an Organist and Master of the Choristers (a title given to a Director of Music at a Cathedral, particularly in England).


Sophie Muller
Sophie Muller is a british music video director, which related back to our work since the video we produce will be made solely in the UK. She has done many collaborations with artists like Sophie Ellis-Bextor, No Doubt, Sade, Shakira, Shakespears Sister, Garbage, Blur, Annie Lennox and Eurythmics.
Sophie Muller was born in London, United Kingdom, but spent her early years growing up on the Isle of Man. After leaving secondary education, she returned to London to attend Central St Martin's, gaining a Foundation Diploma in Art.
Following her graduation, Muller went to the Royal College of Art to study for her Masters in Film and Television, where she made "Interlude" and "In Excelsis Deo (In Adoration of God)." The latter won the J Walter Thompson Prize for creativity.
Her trademark style in most of her videos usually has a singer or a band inside a dim, isolated room.
This is good to keep in mind when thinking of our own music video since we could use her style as a reference.

Robby Starbuck
Robby Starbuck is an American music video director. In 2010 he was named to OC METRO's Top 40 under 40. SUBSTREAM Magazine ran a cover story on Robby Starbuck in 2010 as well. He works with a lot of American rock bands, which makes him a good reference for us since the bands we will likely be doing are of the rock and alternative genre. Some of the artists he has worked with include Snoop Dogg, The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, The Sounds, Yellowcard, Machine Gun Kelly, Escape The Fate, Smashing Pumpkins, Metric, Times of Grace, Jeffree Star, Jon Mclaughlin, and Asking Alexandria.
Starbuck owns his own production company RSM and is signed there as well. In 2011 Robby was nominated in two categories for the Much Music Video Awards (MMVA) for his work directing Metric "Stadium Love". In 2011 Robby's video for OTEP "Fists Fall" won an online poll for best video with a message on MTV.com for the VMA's. The first Music Video shot on the RED Epic Camera was directed by Starbuck for The Smashing Pumpkins. On February 27th, 2012 it was announced that his company RSM expanded to representing 15 directors including himself

 

This is a print screen from his website http://www.robbystarbuck.com/ which along with his videos follows the typical conventions of the metal/rock genre stereotypes where there are a lot of dark colours and shots of the artist.

Here is an example of a music video he has done, which relates back to a previous music video I have analysed because it is the same band. The genre stereotypes fit is the video so we can use it as a reference.