CASE STUDY ONMICHEL GONDRY

Michel Gondry was born on the 8th May 1963 and is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. Gondry was born in Versaillers. His vision and career began with his emphasis on emotion. Much of his inspiration, he says, came from the film Le voyage.

He is famous for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mise en scene. In 2004 he won an Academy Award for the Bets Original screenplay as one of the writers of the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind which is often ranked one of the greatest films of the 2000s.More of his films consist of the surrealistic science fantasy comedy The Science of Sleep, the comedy-drama Be Kind Rewind, the superhero action comedy The Green Hornet and the romantic drama Mood Indigo.

Gondry is also well known for his music video collaborations with artist such as The Chemical Brothers, Bjork and The White Stripes.

Gondry has produced many different types of films such as narrative films, short films and documentaries. Most of his popular films are from the narrative category and are also more of his newest work. All of these films have a postmodernism theme within them.

Most of the film is told as flashback: Puff (Rhys Ifans) testifies to Congress, Lila Jute (Patricia Arquette) tells her story to the police, while a dead Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins) addresses an unseen audience in the netherworld.

GONDRY’S FILMS

The emotionally withdrawn Joel Barish and the unrestrained free-spirit Clementine Kruczynski begin a relationship on a Long Island Rail Road train from Montauk, New York. They are almost immediately drawn to each other despite their radically different personalities.Although they do not realize it at the time, Joel and Clementine are, in fact, former lovers, now separated after having spent two years together. Much of the film takes place in Joel's mind. As his memories are erased, he tries to evade the erasing effects of the procedure by hiding Clementine in remote parts of his unconscious.

Colin has a very pleasant life: he is rich, he loves the food his cook makes (Nicolas), he loves his pianocktail (contraction of piano and cocktail, a word invented by Vian) and his friend Chick.One day while having lunch with Chick, Chick tells him that he met a girl named Alise with whom he has a common passion: the writer Jean-Sol Partre (a spoonerism of Jean-Paul Sartre who was Boris Vian's friend). Colin meets Chloe at a party Chick invited him to. They fall in love, marry, but Chloe becomes ill during their honeymoon. As time passes, Chloe's condition deteriorates while the relationship between Chick and Alise turns sour.

GONDRY’S MUSIC VIDEOS Gondry has worked with an extremely amount of different music artists of different genres. He has produced many music videos that have reversed a number 1 spot in the charts.

Paul McCartney- Dance tonight:

Shots used within the music video:• Establishing shot • Long shot • Close up • Over the shoulder shot

Editing:• Ghosting effect• Slow cuts • Reverse filming

Mise en Scene:• Under exposed lighting • The clothing that has been used in

this music video are very minimal and have dark tones to fit in with the lighting.

• The props look very homely which reflects to the lyrics of the song