Music Directer study - Jonas & François

Jonas & François  were born in 1982. They are a French directing team of music videos and commercials.

 

They are signed to Division Paris for global rep.


2006  - Kavinsky - Testarossa Autodrive

2007 - Justice - D.A.N.C.E

Kanye West feat. T-Pain - The Good Life

2008 - Flairs - Better than Prince
The Presets - Talk Like That
Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland - 4 Minutes

2009 - Sébastien Tellier - Kilometer
Depeche Mode - Peace
Mr Hudson feat. Kanye West - Supernova
Muse - Undisclosed Desire

2010 - Audio Bullys - Only Man
White Lies - Bigger than Us

2013 - Iggy Azalea - Work
DJ Fresh VS Diplo feat. Dominique Young Unique - Earthquake
Iggy Azalea feat. T.I.- Change Your Life

2014 - Jack White - Lazaretto

Awards / Nominations

The team won the Video Star award in 2007 at the MTV Europe Music Awards for the music video D.A.N. C.E for Justice. They were also nominated for the Best Dance Video at the MTV Video Music Awards Japan in 2008.
They also won two awards in 2008 for the music video for Kanye West's 'The Good Life'. They won Best Special Effects at the MTV Video Music Awards and Video Of the Year at the BET Hip Hop Awards.
They were nominated for the Video Star award in 2008 at the MTV Europe Music Awards for the music video for Madonnas '4 Minutes'.
Only man by Audio Bullys won them two awards. The Best Visual Effects at the UK Video Music Awards in 2010, and the Silver Pencil Animation & Special Effects at the D&AD in 2011.
They were nominated for three awards in 2013 for the music video for Work by Iggy Azalea. The Artist To Watch at the MTV Video Music Awards, The Best Urban Video at the UK Video Music Awards and the Best Styling In A Video at the UK Video Music Awards.










As you can see from the three music videos above the tend to stick with performance videos. I also found that in a lot of their videos they place things infront of the camera, for example for the video for Only Man there is a glass surface placed infront of the camera, this allows them to use a low angle and have the artists walk over the camera. In Jack White's Lazaretto video they've also placed a glass surface infront of the artist, which they then smash. This helps it fit into the genre of rock.
Another thing that i found with a lot of his videos is that the artists look directly into the camera while performing, this makes it seem that they are singing to the audience.

They also sometimes work with the art movement Surrealism, for example...