Jamie Thraves
Jamie Thraves began making short experimental films whilst at university and studying illustration. He worked with a production company called factory films and he began shooting at very small budgets with music videos which cost around £5,000 each. His graduation films 'Scratch'(1991) and 'The Take-out' (1993). Both of his films won numerous awards at the short film festivals worldwide.
Making his breakthrough video for Radiohead for their song "Just" where a man played by Dorian Lough is lying on the pavement and is confronted by an angry crowd, this video garnered Thraves a lot of attention for its strong narrative structure and use of subtitles, what the man says to make the crowd lie down at the end of the video still manages to cause great discussion amongst fans some fifteen years later.
Sam Smith 'money on my mind' is one of Jamie Thraves most recent videos done for Sam Smith an up and coming artist, who has recently won a grammy. Thraves has come a long way from his previous music videos he has come up with new and improved ideas to up his game in the music video industry.
This is also one of 'Japanese Popstars' - Song for Lisa. This is one of the other, this film cost around £200,000 to film within 2 days it was complete.
