re-requisites: Undergrad - COM FT353; Graduate: COM FT707. This course explores music videos as cultural, political, and artistic forms of expression. Students examine how music videos shape and reflect activism and identity across the world. Through analysis, creative production, and experimentation with AI video tools, students learn to interpret and produce videos that communicate ideas with impact. The semester includes three creative projects—a short found-media/AI prototype and a full original music-video production in collaboration with musicians. Working in small groups, students will develop a video from the ground up, starting with one of the most important creative decisions: choosing the right song. Along the way, students learn how to write a treatment, storyboard their ideas, develop a visual style, shoot and edit digital video, keep images and lyrics in sync, and think about how music videos are shared and experienced by audiences. By the end of the course, students will have a strong understanding of how music videos are made and a completed project that shows their skills in concept development, cinematography, editing, and visual storytelling—a finished piece they can include in their portfolio. The course also represents the opportunity to work with musicians and artists.

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