The work of Chris Cunningham

1. Bjork collaborated with Chris Cunningham to create the video for “All is full of love”. The collaboration started through a mutual friend, and Bjork sent Cunningham her song. He decided he wanted to use the B-track for this song because this version better suited his creative ways. Bjork told Cunningham that she wanted the video be white and have hard surfaces to reflect some kind of heaven. Her inspiration for this were ivory statues. Cunningham then took her ideas and combined them with his own. However, the first ideas that Cunningham presented to Bjork were too literal for her like, so he changed then to create the music video that was made for “All is full of love”.
   
   
2. The Portishead-Only You music video shows shots of a boy, and separate shots of the band's leads singer, floating in a lane. Even though it looks very complicated, there were only two main techniques used. First, the shots of the people were taken in a swimming pool, hence the reason they look as though they are floating. These were then overlayed with shots of the lane that the video is set in. Cunningham, and any team he was working with, then had to edit the video further, taking out any air bubbles, water ripples etc. to improve the quality of the video. Also, he had to remove any other aspects of the video that shows the water, such as the blue tones of the water.
   
   
3. Many directors for feature films started their career as a music video director, massively influenced by the introduction of MTV music channel in 1981. Micheal Bay, well known for his work on all the Transformers along with Steven Spielberg, directed music videos before his success in the movie industry. Bay has directed music videos for Divinyls (I touch myself) and Meat Loaf (I'd do anything for love, but I wouldn't do that). Mark Webb is another director who went from working on music videos to films. He was very successful with music video directing, with past clients including My Chemical Romance, Good Charlotte, Miley Cyrus, AFI, Yellowcard, Green Day, Weezer and Incubus. As well as directing 500 Days of Summer, he has recently directed the 2012 Spider-Man remake.

1. Before becoming a director, Chris Cunningham worked on the sci-fi action film, Judge Dredd. Staring Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider, it was based on the comic strip called 2000 AD, with a few alterations of the comic changed for the film. Despite having changes made and popular actors staring in it, Judge Dredd wasn't as successful as originally expected.
   
   
2. Even though there are other directors who use use computer graphics to create videos, Cunningham's work is very unique and original. This is not only due to the editing techniques used, but also the ideas he comes up with. They are unlike any other director's ideas and any other music videos previously created. He tailors every music video he creates to the musician/s he is working with, combining their ideas with his own to produce something visually interesting.