Director Research

Director Research

Julien Christian Lutz

Julien Christian Lutz or better known to the public as director x is a Canadian music video director, born 1975 in Toronto, Ontario.

His trademark is tweaking the letterbox format; instead of just using black bars on the top and bottom of the frame to frame the image, many videos by X actually feature the bars opening vertically to reveal the video and closing vertically at the end, like a letter box.

Director X has been noted for his high-budget, visually distinctive music videos for popular music singles, including videos for R. Kelly, Usher, Kanye West, Nelly Furtado, Sean Paul, Justin Bieber, Drake and The Wanted. 

What Director X thinks.

Music videos give the most freedom to the director of all the motion picture arts. The director of left to work freely.they create the concept and see it through to the end. I take that freedom and run. I am very with art direction, lighting, wardrobe, makeup, hair, preproduction, and past production. I let my team work and guide the process. All the while correcting to my vision and pushing for excellence.

What i think

I think director x capures the mood of the songs he produces videos for very well, his videos are very up beat and everyone in the video looks to be enjoying the experiance which i feel is an important part of the video.

Here is an example of Director X’s work

Chasing the sun by the Wanted

Dennis White

Dennis White better known as Static Revenger,  is an American record producer, video director, and DJ based in Los Angeles. From an early start in dance music as the music director for the Detroit techno group, Inner City, he went on to form the marginally successful Detroit alternative dance rock band, Charm Farm, best known for the song "Superstar". As part of their range of idents from 1998 to 2002, the song "Happy People" was used on various idents for Sky One.

What i think

I think this director is good at capturing the mood of dance tracks as he was a dj and has had experiance with this genre of music, the videos he produces like for an angel dont have much relevece to the tack but he as made a feel good video which features the dj and gets the track out there to the customers. 

Here is an example of Dennis Whites work.

For an Angel by paul van dyk