Name: Dave Meyers
Specialises in: Film and Photography.
• Dave Meyers was born and raised in Berkley, California.
• In the University of Loyola Marymount he took a degree in Film and Philosophy.
• In his early career he started off making short films which got in to the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival.
• He then went on to work for Paramount Pictures a film distribution and Production Company in development for the films “Face/Off” and “Twilight”.
• Dave Meyers had a chance meeting with well known director Gus Van Sant who remade Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”.
• This inspired him to spend a lengthy amount of time in the music video industry.
• He has directed many videos such as Pink’s “So What”, Shakira’s “Left Behind” and Kelly Clarkson’s “Break Away”.
• His most recent music video was Katy Perry’s “Firework”.
From looking at the information I have gathered, he impresses me in the way that he works is that he seems to be able to cross working with the medium of music videos and film so easily. He changed from working in film to working in the medium of music video just by an inspiring meeting with a director whom he inspires to be like. Also what inspires me about him is that way that he can give an over the top image of celebrities themselves. For example Pink in the music video “So What” has an attitude of not caring what people think and so he plays on that fact. He makes her seem overly violent, angry and careless and yet he does this in a way that makes the audience to aspire to have that attitude without encouraging some of the violent things she does. He makes people aspire to be the celebrities that we as an audience see even with some of their overtly dramatized acts. This all links into the Dyer’s ideas in the article “Stadom”. He states that stars depend upon a range of subsidiary media such as music videos to market their image. Dave Meyers makes the attitudes and the image of the artist stand out as much as possible to gain the attention of the target audience for the artists.
• In his early career he started off making short films which got in to the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival.
• He then went on to work for Paramount Pictures a film distribution and Production Company in development for the films “Face/Off” and “Twilight”.
• Dave Meyers had a chance meeting with well known director Gus Van Sant who remade Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”.
• This inspired him to spend a lengthy amount of time in the music video industry.
• He has directed many videos such as Pink’s “So What”, Shakira’s “Left Behind” and Kelly Clarkson’s “Break Away”.
• His most recent music video was Katy Perry’s “Firework”.
From looking at the information I have gathered, he impresses me in the way that he works is that he seems to be able to cross working with the medium of music videos and film so easily. He changed from working in film to working in the medium of music video just by an inspiring meeting with a director whom he inspires to be like. Also what inspires me about him is that way that he can give an over the top image of celebrities themselves. For example Pink in the music video “So What” has an attitude of not caring what people think and so he plays on that fact. He makes her seem overly violent, angry and careless and yet he does this in a way that makes the audience to aspire to have that attitude without encouraging some of the violent things she does. He makes people aspire to be the celebrities that we as an audience see even with some of their overtly dramatized acts. This all links into the Dyer’s ideas in the article “Stadom”. He states that stars depend upon a range of subsidiary media such as music videos to market their image. Dave Meyers makes the attitudes and the image of the artist stand out as much as possible to gain the attention of the target audience for the artists.
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