Jonze has been making music videos for nearly twenty years. He has worked with artists such as The Chemical Brothers, Kanye West, Arcade Fire and Jay-Z throughout that period. Jonze's style often incorporates slow motion to create mood and atmosphere. He also used guerilla-style filming techniques for the video of Fatboy Slim's "Praise You", where a fictional dance group perform outside a cinema in Calafornia without permission, to the bewilderment of onlookers. I admire Jonze's work a lot, especially his video for Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs", which has a very gritty and realistic narrative to it.
Note: This video uses quite a bit of slow motion, like the video for collaborators Kanye West and Jay Z's recent single "Otis".
David Fincher
Fincher is mostly known as a film director, but has dabbled in music video directing over the years. He has worked with artists such as Madonna, Michael Jackson and Nine Inch Nails. He is known for his dark style and incorporates a lot of his trademark three dimensional camera moves into his videos, such as the video for "Only" by Nine Inch Nails. This device is used heavily in his films, such as "Fight Club" and "Panic Room". By watching this scene from "Panic Room" you can see Fincher's use of this technique.
Overall, I love the dark style of Fincher's film and music video work and will try to incorporate this style into my own work.
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