Jamie Thraves

Jamie Thraves is a director who made short films at university, he used award-winning short films as a "calling card" to get a a foot in the door with the video production company factory films. He began this by shooting three very low budget music video's that cost about £5,000 each.
This is how the whole process works:
A commissioner from a record label sends a track to 5-10 directors, then the director's each submit a treatment but this stage is unpaid. The director who has submitted the 'best' treatment is then commissioned to make the video so therefore thats when the director gets paid. For many director's in the business it is a precarious existence where their livelihood is dependent on each commission. Jamie Thraves submitted treatments for his two best known video's and was accepted. These two video's are Radiohead Just and Coldplay the scientist.
Radiohead- Just had a £100,000 budget for the video and was shot in three days whereas Coldplay- the scientist has a £200,000 budget for the video which also took 3 days to shoot.

Coldplay- The scientist- This video was also directed by Jamie Thraves and he shot this video in many different locations such as London and the Bourne Woods in surreyThe video opens looking down on Martin, singing, as he lies on his back on a mattress. As the camera pulls back, the mattress is revealed to be outside. A cyclist cycles past in reverse and Martin leaps up from the mattress. He walks in reverse through a city, out into the suburbs and eventually into the woods, picking up various pieces of his suit as he goes. Upon arriving at his car, a black BMW, he gets in and briefly passes out as his girlfriend, at first lying dead on the ground in front of the car, is shown flying back in through the shattered windscreen of the car. The car backs rolls back up a hill in the woods and through a broken fence, which mends itself as the car passes back through it. As the video closes, the couple are shown driving back up the road. It is revealed that Martin's girlfriend had removed her seat belt just before the car accident, leading to her death

Radiohead-just-The single's video was directed by Jamie Thraves, who was hand-picked by the band after they saw several of his experimental short films. It was shot near Liverpool street station in London, and intersperses footage of Radiohead playing the song inside an apartment with scenes of a middle-aged man who lies down in the middle of the pavement just outside of the apartment building. People start to gather, thinking that something must be wrong with the man, and the band are shown looking out the window at the events below. A heated conversation between the man and the crowd develops, as the people start demanding to know what the man is doing and why he is lying there. In subtitles, the man finally gives in and says, "Yes I'll tell you, I'll tell you why I'm lying here... but God forgive me... and God help us all... because you don't know what you ask of me." The camera zooms in on his mouth as the man finally gives the answer, but the subtitles have suddenly stopped, so the reason is not revealed to the viewer. As the camera zooms back out, it shows the pavement covered with the crowd of people, all lying down just like the man.

Jamie Thraves most recent video is by japanese popstars called songs for lisa, jamie thrave's current video's cost about £20,000 each and his shooting time for this video was two days. Jamie Thraves has used the music video's he made to get into film business and has shot three features so far, these features are the low down, the cry of the owl and treacle jr. His tips are to use the lyrics but try not to be to literal and the key tip from him is to go with the emotion of the lyrics.