Music Video Workshops

LEARN TO MAKE A MUSIC VIDEO AT NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY

NYFA’s music video workshops guide students through the process of creating original music videos from concept development to final screening. Taught by active professional music video makers and experts, students collectively learn how to conceptualize their project, collaborate with a musical artist or band, produce, shoot, direct, and edit their own music videos. NYFA encourages students enrolled in the music video workshop to take creative risks as visual artists, all while learning the most essential elements of what goes into making a music video:

• Identify the recording artist's brand including their visual style and tone of their music.
• Writing a treatment for the song.
• Planning the music video in storyboards and shot lists.
• Putting together a budget and shooting schedule.
• Creating the overall aesthetic style of the video.
• Planning the music video in storyboards.
• Learning how to shoot and keep the film in sync with lyrics and editing.

Through experiential learning, students enrolled in our music video courses gain an understanding of the requirements and rigors of directing music videos, as well as the exhilaration of seeing a completed project. Workshops conclude with a final screening of all the students’ work, open to family and friends. Make your own music video with the New York Film Academy!

MUSIC VIDEO CLASSES OVERVIEW

The New York Film Academy’s music video courses are designed to:

• Gives students the all-around creative and technical experience and training necessary to make their own music videos.
• Provide rigorous instruction and hands-on production experience.
• Deliver challenging curriculum that includes intensive study in all the major filmmaking disciplines, such as cinematography, directing, story development, producing, and editing.
• Students write, direct, and edit their own music videos and work on crew of their classmates’ productions.
• Challenge for aspiring filmmakers who have the passion to commit to full-time music video production and demanding curriculum. Participants must work with self-discipline, energy, and mutual respect.