Music Video Director - Kinga Burza
Kinga Burza was born in Poland and moved to London in 2005. She completed a BA at the University of New South Wales, before she went onto postgraduate studies in Theatre and Film at UTS in Sydney. Whilst studying at university, Burza began teaching herself by making amateur videos for her then boyfriend and friends that were in bands.
With Burza's music videos, I find that there is usually a number of things:
Splashes of colour.
Food (Particularly “cute” food like cupcakes, strawberries and sweets).
Flowers.
Obscure, almost creepy things (such as giant Kitty costumes or over-done make-up).
Lots of shots of the female body.
A vintage style or vintage items.
A lot of lense flare.
Most of the videos also feature a lot of lip-syncing.
All of these aspects give a very distinct style to Burza's videos.
Burza's stylistic influences seem to come from the 80s. The majority of her videos involve a kind of 80s feel to them (In LadyHawke's music video for 'Back Of The Van', Burza even used Tube cameras which were the most popular broadcast quality cameras used to film live performances in the 80s to film it), and usually have props and costumes which reflect the 80s era. These stylistic influences connect all of Burza's music videos giving them a distinct and noticable connection; making it easy to tell Burza's videos from other directors. 
Burza's editing style doesn't seem to be very complex and it usually consists of simply putting the shots together or greenscreening. Although in some videos there is a good amount of special effects; for example in Kate Nash's 'Foundations' video, there is some stop-motion involves. Also in Marina and The Diamond's video for 'Oh No!', there is some adding of 90s cartoon effects.
Burza's videos usually invole a narrative that are usually based around the song rather than going off on a tangent as some music videos do. However she does use a lot of live performance, and in the majority of her videos the artist lip-syncs to their song; mainly in between cuts to dancing or the narrative. 
I really like Burza's videos due to her unique style and the fact that you can spot her videos out from others. I'm really drawn to her use of vintage style and bright colours and the fact that she has done many of these videos on next to no budget at all but still manged to keep them looking proffesional. I also like the fact that her style is very noticable without overshadowing the artist's style in the process.
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