Directors Study - Francis
Lawrence
Francis Lawrence was born March 26th
1970, in Vienna, Austria. At age 3 he moved to Los Angeles and is now a music,
video, film and television director and producer. He is famous because of his imaginative,
original music video scripts. At a young age he worked as 2nd
assistant cameraman on ‘Pump Up the Volume’, and this was before he even got
himself a bachelors degree in film production, after attending Loyola Marymount
University. The first thing he did was work on ‘Marching out of Time’ as first
AD.
Lawrence’s first music video was
for Michael Blakey (president of Atico Records), it was ‘Tidal Force - A Man Rides
Through’. Lawrence has worked with artists from Green Day to Lady Gaga, for
whom he received a Grammy for Best Music Video- Short Form for the track ‘Bad
Romance’. As well, he has filmed commercials for companies from Disneyland to
Calvin Klein and has directed films such
as I am Legend and Water for Elephants. Francis Lawrence is known as a ‘visual
story teller’, as everything he does is so dramatic, including the very
controversial music video he created for ‘Britney Spears - I’m A Slave 4 U’.
I am Legend
I'm a Slave 4 U.
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