Jamie Thraves Case Study

Jamie Thraves is a british film writer and director. He began making short films at his university and tried using these to break through the doors and get into the film industry. After trying for a long while to succeed his short films began to get recognition and he won numerous awards at film festivals. He used this to get his foot through the door, and joined the video production company Factory Films.

He started out making very low budget music videos costing about £5000 each until he got a 'big break' and was chosen to do a big budget video.

Radiohead - Just
£100,000 budget

Shot in three days





He then got the chance to do a second big budget video.




Coldplay - The Scientist
£200,000 budget
Shot in three days




These videos made him a well known and respected name in the music video industry.

Jamie has used the music videos to get into the film business, so far he has shot 3 feature films:
The Low Down
The cry of the owl
Treacle Jr.