3.00 Credits
This course analyzes the history, aesthetics, and production of the music video from early music videos through the inception of Friday Night Videos and MTV, to modern music visualizers. Students will learn the methods and technology video artists employed to combine music with visual imagery to create a unique art form which includes narrative, experimental, documentary and animation filmmaking techniques and language. Students will produce their own music videos and learn the craft of visualizing, filming, and editing a music video. Students learn to write for the screen by focusing on visual language, dialogue and performance, shot composition, camera movement, and diegetic and non-diegetic sound.