Jamie Thraves

Jamie Thrave is a director, who used music videos to get into the film industry. He started to make short films at University, he later used his award winning short film as a 'calling card' to get his 'foot in the door' with the video production company Factory Films, who have helped to produce many famous music promotions videos.
Jamie Thraves started by shooting three very low budget music videos that cost about £5000 each; which is quite low when producing a music video.
His two best known music videos are Radiohead's 'Just' and Coldplay's 'Scientist.'
'Just' took 3 days to shoot and cost around £100,000; the video for Coldplay's 'Scientist' also took 3 days to film but cost double of Radiohead's 'Just.'

His most recent music video was 'Song for Lisa' which cost £20,000 and 2 days to make.

So far he has shot three features: The Low Down, The Cry of the Owl and Treacle Jr.

Jamie's Top Tips:

- Use the lyrics; but try not to be too literal

- Most importantly go with the emotion of the lyrics