The auteur theory was first created in 1950's by French cinema critics. They created a publication called La Cahier du Cinema. This contained discussions on who should or shouldn't be recognised as an auteur and to be recognised your work had to have particular characteristics which may be stylistic, structural, thematic or about process. Some people who may be recognised today are Jonathon Glazier, Anton Corbijn, Chris Cunningham and Spike Jonze.
We looked at Chris Cunningham who works regularly with artists such as Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Portishead. This allows him to produce abstract video's which may not generally be accepted by the public. Throughout the video's we viewed there was a repetition of particular shots and scenes trying possibly to put emphasis on what is being shown. This grabs the viewers attention. In many of the video's there was a use of paler colours so the footage was not vibrant but it was also not black and white, possibly with the use of filters, it created a cold feel to the video. There is also a wide use of robotics giving an unnatural feel, adding to this is the wide use of digital enhancement and special effects or animation. This gives a very 'out of this world' feel to the video and as the genre of the music he generally works with does not require the artist to be shown the video can have a tangent of it's own. Chris Cunningham appears to attempt to scare or shock his audience and many of his video's are the length of short films or extended music video's rather than video's you would see in the charts today. We also noticed that he repeatedly uses dogs in his video's as we found them in both Come To Daddy and Rubber Johnny (both Aphex Twin). On the whole we not think that Chris Cunningham produces very abstract video's aiming to shock the audience and make them think. However the contents of the video, if there are lyrics in the song, will relate in some way to what is being said.
We looked at Chris Cunningham who works regularly with artists such as Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Portishead. This allows him to produce abstract video's which may not generally be accepted by the public. Throughout the video's we viewed there was a repetition of particular shots and scenes trying possibly to put emphasis on what is being shown. This grabs the viewers attention. In many of the video's there was a use of paler colours so the footage was not vibrant but it was also not black and white, possibly with the use of filters, it created a cold feel to the video. There is also a wide use of robotics giving an unnatural feel, adding to this is the wide use of digital enhancement and special effects or animation. This gives a very 'out of this world' feel to the video and as the genre of the music he generally works with does not require the artist to be shown the video can have a tangent of it's own. Chris Cunningham appears to attempt to scare or shock his audience and many of his video's are the length of short films or extended music video's rather than video's you would see in the charts today. We also noticed that he repeatedly uses dogs in his video's as we found them in both Come To Daddy and Rubber Johnny (both Aphex Twin). On the whole we not think that Chris Cunningham produces very abstract video's aiming to shock the audience and make them think. However the contents of the video, if there are lyrics in the song, will relate in some way to what is being said.
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