Music video directors research 2: Samuel Bayer

New York director, visual artist and cinematographer Samuel Bayer has made some of the most memorable music videos of the past 20 years. I could use influence from some of these.



In addition to my main story, I wanted to show my singer in a different colour template. I thought of using sepia, after seeing this video, which I love. I love the way that sepia tone looks and think it would suit my song and genre. Another video that looks like this is Bayer's first video, Smells Like
 Teen Spirit by Nirvana.
 

I like the idea of a story of one individual going through heartache and lonlieness, and so could also take inspiration from Bayer's video for the Green Day song Jesus of Surburbia, which has a dramatic look to it by using film style camera shots and editing, like a mini film.