Leigh Last (12C)Thurston Community College

Director Profile:Sophie Muller

About Sophie…• However, she wanted to become a

successful director on her own right, and was given a chance to show her skills after meeting John Stewart (brother of Eurythmics' Dave Stewart) and Billy Poveda of Oil Factory (an established film production company).

• She has won a MTV Video Music Award for Annie Lennox's 1992 hit "Why", and a Grammy nomination for the Eurythmics' Savage video album.

• To date, she has directed over 100 hundred music videos.

• Born 31st January 1962

• Born in London, but grew up in the Isle of Man.

• She attended Central St Martin's, gaining a Foundation Diploma in Art.

• She then went to the Royal College of Art to study a Masters in Film and Television.

• Her first taste of film came when working as an assistant on 1984 film Company of Wolves.

Sophie Ellis Bextor

Muller directed 7 videos for pop icon of the “noughties” Sophie Ellis Bextor. Including hits “Catch You” and “Murder on the Dancefloor”

Key Artists

Annie Lennox

Muller directed 12 videos for the Scottish singer in the 90’s, including “Cold”, “The Gift” and “Little Birds”

Gwen Stefani

Muller directed 6 videos for Gwen Stefani. Videos included “Serious”, “The Real Thing” and “Crash”

Eurythmics

The Eurythmics had 13 videos produced by Sophie Muller during the 1990’s.

Blur

English alternative rock band Blur had 4 of their videos directed by Muller in the late 90s/early 00’s.

Video Styles…• Sophie Muller’s “typical” main style predominately

features the song artists, as the only people in the music video (with their instruments sometimes) performing in a room.

• Her use of fast paced, on the beat shot changes is a convention of most of her videos.

• She also likes to play around with various visual effects to enhance the video further, with colour manipulation on several videos.

• Use of light is usually very naturalistic, with additional lighting used occasionally to highlight the artist more.

• Lots of close ups of the artist to show emotion and talent!

What I like…There are various aspects of Sophie Muller’s work that I like, and therefore would potentially like to emulate in my own music video:

• Use of colour/CGI: I love some of the CGI work involving colour manipulation etc. and really would like to use that myself.

• Lots of artist close up shots: The various close ups that are used really show the emotion and talent that the singers and artists have.

• Fast and on-the-beat editing: As I hope to use a up tempo music track (more than likely a dance track) I will almost certainly be using on the beat editing practices.