Mark Romanek is an American filmmaker whose directing work includes commercials, feature films and music videos. He has worked with many stars such as Michael Jackson, Coldplay, Jay Z, Madonna and Iggy Pop. 

Romanek was given his first Grammy award in 1996 for the collaboration video 'Scream' between Michael and Janet Jackson. After a few years writing screenplays, Romanek decided to focus more solely on music videos and also signed with Satellite Films, a division of Propaganda films.

His work has come to be regarded as one of the best in the industry now.

Romanek is well known for his 'random' ideas and uniqueness in his directing career. His style and creativity is usually suited to much faster paced songs such as scream by Michael and Janet Jackson. This is a brilliant video and one that I have grown up watching and been intrigued by. The video is set in some sort of ship in Space and uses unusual effects of animation mixed with reality which shows that sometimes the ideas that are out of the ordinary work the best. Something on this scale would be quire difficult to replicate in our music video but we can definitely take tips from it. Within this video they use lots of close ups on Michael Jackson's face to express his emotions which I think work really effectively and so will definitely look to use shots like this in our music video.