Jonathan Glazer - Auteur

The Auteur Theory is when the writer has a specific signature that they use within their work which can be apparent to its audience. Elements of this theory may include individual stylistic features, how the texts are determined by the artists creativity and also how texts emerge as part of the artists body of work. A few examples of where the recognisable features may be found in a video/film is through colour, locations and actors etc.

Jonathan Glazer

Glazer is an English director from London, known for his television commercials, music videos and directing of films (most commonly known for his Nike commercials, Sexy Beast film and music videos for Radiohead and Jamiroquai)

After watching a few of his music video, it was not apparent to me what Glazers media signature was. I decided to analysis certain features of his videos to see if I could notice any reoccuring patterns. I look at areas such as:

• Genre of music that we worked with
• Lighting used
• Colour schemes
• Location of video
• Editing
• Structure

And I also took notes on other points which I thought stood out in the particular videos.
The three videos I analysised were...

• Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity (1996)
• Blur - The Unversal (1995)
• Richard Ashcraft - A Song For The Loves (2000)

And these were the notes I took from analysising each of the videos...

After looking at certain aspects of each video I started to notice certain trends forming and became to realise what it was about Glazer that gave him the title of 'Auteur'. As you can see from my notes above, the most commonly used factor is the use of lighting and white rooms.The use of these white rooms was not obvious and didn't seem to provide any obvious linking reason.