Jamie Thraves

Jamie Thraves 

Jamie Thraves is a director he made short films at university, he used an award winning short film as a calling card to get his foot in the door with the video production company factory films. He began by shooting three very low budget music videos which cost about £5000 each. As can be seen for many directors in the business it is a precarious existence where their livelihood is dependent on each commission. Thraves submitted treatments for his two best known videos and each was accepted.

Some examples of his work are as follows:

The first for Radio Head called Just the budget was £100,000 and was shot in three days. 

The second was for Coldplay called The Scientist, the budget was £200,000 and this was also shot in just three days.


Thraves' most recent video is for Japanese Popstars called Song For Lisa, currently videos cost on average £20,000 and they take 2 days to make. Thraves has used music videos to get into the film business, he has to far shot three features they are, 'The Low Down', 'The Cry of the Owl' and 'Treacle Jr'.

Top Tips!

Jamie's tip is to use the lyrics but try not to be too literal, and to most importantly go with the emotion of the lyrics.

Katy B's song Broken Record was directed by Jamie himself

I think Katy prefers her music to be quite calm and relaxing but have a house feel to it as well, thats why Thraves added house elements into the video which really worked well.

He also directed Tom Odell's Another Love
Throughout Odell's song he is sitting in a chair in various settings, this fits well with the song, even though the songs about him being emotional it show the final out come out what the person has done to him and that is leave him motionless thats why in his video he is motionless to everything that is going on around him.