Auteur - Joseph Kahn

Auteur theory
In the film-making industry, auteur theory signifies that a director's film reflects the directors personal style and their own creative vision despite interference from studio or production companies - their style is distinct enough to still be translated in the production 

Auteur-Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn (born 1972) is an American film and music video director.
Since 1999 when he started his own production company, he has worked with a wide range of artists such as: Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Muse, Blink 182, U2, Eminem, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, The Black Eyed Peas, Maroon 5 and many more.
He has also won many awards for his music videos including a Grammy in 2002 for Eminem's video 'Without Me'. Kahn was also nominated for 7 MTV Video Music Awards and has also won several.
He has now gone on to direct the films Torque (2004) an action film, and Detention (2011) a teenage horror comedy.

Joseph Kahn has a very distinctive style to his music videos-they always have a strong narrative to them which sometimes relate to the themes running through the song itself in some way. Many of his music videos tie in one specific emotion or feeling within each video to create a strong experience for the audience. 
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Blink 182-Always analysis 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvtJVku_mJw 

This video for Blink 182’s song ‘Always’, directed by Joseph Kahn is a narrative driven music video along with several performance pieces.

The narrative of the music video amplifies the lyrics and the genre of the song and although the narrative of the song is incomplete, the video provides closure and ends the story for the audience. The narrative follows the three band members arguing with who the audience assume is their girlfriend, illustrating the lyrics as they are very direct to a sing person, and so it makes sense that they perform it to one girl. 

Visually, this music video is very exciting; the video is made up of three horizontal stripes made up of the same scene taking place with each section features a different member of the band, all of them feature the protagonist female re-creating the exact same scene three times. The video begins with a shot of a vase with a flower in it, this establishing shot fools the audience into thinking that the frame is made up of one shot, however once the camera pans around the room, we are able to see that it is made up of three shots. Although these shots are of the exact same piece of action, they are all slightly out of time with each other, despite this, it makes the video more exciting to watch and makes the concept more understandable as the story line of each band member varies slightly in terms of their relationship with the girl.


The performance aspect of the video continues the visual theme, they are each performing with their instruments, but the final video is made up of the three different shots of them playing in the same way but in different locations within the same apartment to offer slight visual variation. In addition, the lip-syncing is obviously completely in sync with the track, even though the videos are out of time with each other. 

I personally really enjoyed the music video because it was always engaging for the viewer and I always had something to focus my attention on, and although the idea is quite repetitive as the camera just circles the one location, there is a different scene happening each time.