Music Video Directors- Spike Lee

Spike Lee is an American film director, producer, writer and actor from Atlanta, Georgia. He has his own production company, his films mainly addresses really serious topics which include: 

• Race relations
• Colourism in the black community
• The role of media in the contemporary life
• Urban crime
• Poverty
• Political issues

Lee's work is very controversial and close to the bone.

In 1985, Lee began to work on his first feature film, She's Gotta Have It. He had a budget of $175,000, he shot the film in just two weeks.
When the film was released in 1986, it grossed over $7,000,000 at the US box office.

In the mid-1990's, Levi's began producing a series of television adverts which were directed by Lee for their 501 button fly jeans.
Lee has also worked for Nike as he was invited by Nike to become the director for the Air Jordan adverts, the brand was named after Michael Jordan, the basketball player. 

Lee has also directed some great music videos, he has worked with artists such as Prince and Michael Jackson. He has filmed 15 music videos and they all have been very successful, one of his most successful videos was the 'This Is It' video which was released just after the death of Michael Jackson. It was used to promote the film that came out shortly after his death, which commemorated the great artist himself.