Auteur:Spike Jonze

In preparation for our coursework piece this year we are looking at an auteur and the one I have chosen to look at is Spike Jonze. Spike Jonze is an American director, producer, screenwriter and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television ranging from adverts for Coca-Cola to shooting footage for skateboarding videos for Sonic Youths.
Spike is famous for very original and imaginative pieces of work such as 'Her', a very forward thinking and mature piece of film about a man who falls in love with an AI.
All auteurs have certain styles and traits that mark their work as theirs, one thing Spike Jonze uses quite often in his work is very light filled shots, with really bright and pure, natural light shining through, as you can see from the screenshot from the film 'Her' above and another from one of his other works 'Where the wild things are' below.