Thursday, January 31, 2008

Drea Clark: "Music Video Production"

Drea Clark teaches "Music Video Production" this summer.
About the class: We'll be concentrating on both the art and the business of music videos, studying historical and contemporary clips to learn the language of putting images to music, working on treatments and producing individual videos. Delving into specifics like cinematography, editing, art direction, choreography, and post production, we'll bring in experts and visit production companies. If you've ever watched a music video and wondered how to break into that world, this is the class for you.

About the teacher: After rising the ranks in production, Drea Clark served as the Executive Director for the Music Video Production Association (MVPA) from 2000-2007, overseeing the establishment of union contracts as well as producing the annual award show where she worked with directors such as Spike Jonze, David Fincher and Michel Gondry.

In addition to serving as a member of the Professional Faculty for USC’s Summer Program, Clark previously lectured at the University of Oulu, Finland and UCLA Extension.

She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Slamdance Film Festival, acting as the head of production and chair of feature competition programming. In addition to the film festival, Clark’s year-round divisions include screenplay, teleplay and horror competitions with development and production agreements as well as an independent video game competition.

Please use this post to ask any and all questions related to the Summer Program Class:
"Music Video Production"

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

1. I would like to know what format we will be shooting in, HD, miniDV, 16mm with sound or 16mm without sound and about how much time we will spend in production.

2. Will we be using AfterEffects as well?

3. Also, Do we get a copy of everyones work that we help crew with?

Anonymous said...

Will we need to find a professional band to create this music video for?

Anonymous said...

Hey, I'm thinking about taking the summer project for music videos, I have been dying to learn how to make a perfect music video. Anyway, I just wanted to know..would students possibly be able to use animation in their videos? Maybe would with the animation department in some way?