Directors Research Task

Corin Hardy

Corin Hardy began his career as a special FX monster-maker in his bike shed, aged 12; throughout his teenage years he gained film set experience in sculpting, props, wardrobe and art departments on a variety of film, TV and theatre productions.

He gained a Degree in practical special effects at Wimbledon school of art which lead to award winning stop-motion short 'Butterfly' in 2003, and from then on he began directing music videos starting with Keane's 'Somewhere only we know' & 'Bed shaped'. He has also made further videos for the band since, including 'The Night Sky' which Corin did in collaboration with school children. He went into a school as part of a project on raising awareness on war zones and asked a group of teenagers to help produce a music video for Keane and create animations that relate to the war zone theme. The animated stories in the video are inspired by the real experiences of children in War zones as told to them by War Child. This video showed some of the skills that can be picked up within a few days; Corin often does workshops introducing people to animation and music video making.

Corin was soon after signed to academy films in 2006 that include the wide variety of bands ranges from underground acts including Jon Spencer, Martin Grech and the Guillemots as well as commercial pop/rock of Mcfly, The Feeling, Olly Murs, Paolo Nutini and Biffy Clyro.

He also is noted for his imaginative and inventive work on the horrors Promo 'She IS the new thing' making it MVA award winning material, Aswell as the Prodigy's 'Warriors Dance'.

Corin’s video for the Prodigy’s ‘Warriors Dance’ saw him bring out his creative side by sculpting and cutting out cigarette boxes to make figures to animate. The band weren't available for the music video, so instead Corin had the free choice of the video. 


Corin Hardy's Filmography

Dry the River- No Rest
Olly Murs- Heart Skips a beat & Busy
Biffy Clyro- God& Satan
Big Ghana Band - One day like this, unbelievable& Spin me Round
Paolo Nutini & The Big Ghana Band - Pencil full of lead
The Prodigy- Warrior's Dance
The Rumble Strips- You're not the only person
The King Blues- Save the world get the girl & Come Fi Di Youth
Conspirators- The Ballad of Jim Siedow & Permanent State of 13
Fightstar- I Am The Message & Waste a Moment
Keith Caputo- Crawling
The Feeling- Without You
Keane- The Night Sky, Bedshaped & Somewhere only we know
Elliot Minor- The White One is Evil
The Horrors- She IS the New Thing
Dogs- Dirty Little Shop
Guillemots- Annie Lets Not Wait
G.M.T- Rock N' Roll & Rocky Road
Betty Curse- Excuse All The Blood
Mcfly- The Ballad of Paul K
Martin Grech- Guiltless
Dogs Die in Hot Cars- Lounger
Rachel Stamp- I Wanna Be your Doll
GoldBlade- 16 Tons
Antiproduct-Bungee Jumping





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http://www.wanda.net/fr/directors/melina-matsoukas-72
http://www.prettybirdus.com/melinamatsoukas