Martin de Thurah is an up and coming music video director, and can be considered to be an auteur. Three of his videos (Human - Carpark North, Bullets - Editors, What Else is there? - Royskopp) contain qualities that would be associated with other auteur like videos. For example in 'Human' there are no shots of the band shown at all through out the video with it concentrating instead on the narrative of the children with special abilities.
Martins videos are more than just performance videos they all have alternative readings and hidden meanings in the seemingly random shots that are shown during the course of the videos. This sort of high brow, read into the understand view, it can also be considered as high class, and artistic. Although music videos unlike works of art in a museum or artistic films are easily and readily accessible my the masses, which makes it difficult to define whether it really is that high elite status if so many people consume it.
In all his videos he uses a strange sense of time. In a lot of shots they are in slow motion, with a few in fast motion. Many examples of these can be seen in all three videos, and the frequent slow motion gives the videos a surreal and dreamy feel, which goes with the strange often surreal dream-like activities in the video.
The bands or artists are featured in two of the three i have mentioned, not 'Human', and are portrayed diageticaly, ie part of the world of the narrative. For example in the Royskopp video the female lead singer is part of the narrative and is the main character involved. However she is lip syncing to the lyrics of the video, and so it is hard to determine whether this is clearly narrative or performance. These lines have been blurred with the 'Bullets' video too, with the band playing in the street in which the narrative takes place. This almost hybridization of narrative and performance has led to new views on music videos and gives them almost a new way of constructing verisimilitude, with the music video and band portrayed almost completely diageticaly, and so making it easier to lose yourself in the world of that narrative.
Carpark North Human
Editors - Bullets
Royskopp What Else is there?
In all his videos he uses a strange sense of time. In a lot of shots they are in slow motion, with a few in fast motion. Many examples of these can be seen in all three videos, and the frequent slow motion gives the videos a surreal and dreamy feel, which goes with the strange often surreal dream-like activities in the video.
The bands or artists are featured in two of the three i have mentioned, not 'Human', and are portrayed diageticaly, ie part of the world of the narrative. For example in the Royskopp video the female lead singer is part of the narrative and is the main character involved. However she is lip syncing to the lyrics of the video, and so it is hard to determine whether this is clearly narrative or performance. These lines have been blurred with the 'Bullets' video too, with the band playing in the street in which the narrative takes place. This almost hybridization of narrative and performance has led to new views on music videos and gives them almost a new way of constructing verisimilitude, with the music video and band portrayed almost completely diageticaly, and so making it easier to lose yourself in the world of that narrative.
Carpark North Human
Editors - Bullets
Royskopp What Else is there?
(Appendix 2a)
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