Matt Stawski

Matt Stawski.
A filmaker from midwest america. He is inspired by the history of motown.
He began make short films and music videos with friends in grade school and high school.
He achieved a bachelor's degree in film and video and concentrated on the directing side.
His motion graphics has led him to being nominated MVPA award in 2007 in the computer effects category.

Matt has directed videos for many different bands including:
All Time Low
Fall Out Boy
Train
Charlotte Sometimes
Street Sweeper Social Club
The Maine
The Pink Spider
Anthony Green
Lisa Miskosky
Paramore
The Hush sound
The Bled

We chose to look at Matt because we like some of the bands that he has made music video's for. Charlotte had analysed a music video from the maine, so he fitted very well.

Matts style when creating video's is very dominated by narrative but with the performace on the locations of the narrative. he also uses alot of animation within the live footage, he uses cartoon writing which are usually lyrics within the song. he also uses alot of stop motion in his videos. There are alot of unusual camera shots and angles within his videos, giving an interesting spin on his videos.

Matts describes his style as:

"Matt is known for his surreal style that mixes graphics with live action, creating fantastical and hyper-real environments and effects for the artists and narratives in his video."


Here are a couple of video's which show his style.