Michael Bay
Michael Bay is an American film director and producer, his work includes high-budget action-adventure films such as Bad Boys, Armageddon, Pearl Harbour, and Transformers, have grossed over three billion dollars world-wide.
However he did not start by doing these big budget movie's, One week out of out of film school in 1989, Michael Bay began directing commercials and music videos for Propaganda Films. His works for such acts as Meat Loaf, Aerosmith, Tina Turner, Donny Osmond, and the DiVinyls won the young film-maker recognition, acclaim, and a number of MTV Video Award nominations. He won the coveted Best Music Video prize in 1992 and 1999.
Trade Mark's:
- Intense slow motion shots of characters
- Has the camera moving during most scenes. Very rarely uses static shots.
- Often uses lightflashes (i.e. lightbulbs and cameraflashes) to enhance scenes.
- Often has over-the-top visuals.
- Often features a slow-motion shot of an object crashing into, or tumbling towards the camera.
- Frenetic editing of action sequences.
Most of these types can be seen in the music video below ( Meat loaf "I would do anyhting for love")Directed by Michael Bay.
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