Monday–Friday, August 1–5, 12–4 pm

Students in will team up to create an original music video for a local band. Learn the process from ideation to production to post—by doing it yourself! Along the way, students will learn the history of music videos, view and critique seminal videos, and gain a greater understanding of the genre’s larger impact on contemporary filmmaking.

Tuition: $240

Deacon Warner is the Youth Program Director for IFP Minnesota. During the school year he teaches documentary video production through in-school residencies as well as an after school video production program housed at IFP MN. His students’ work has been accepted into many festivals and screenings and won numerous awards, including a 2008 Award of Excellence from the Minneapolis School Board and the Special Focus Award at the 2010 Minnesota Historical Society’s 1968 Project Film Competition. Deacon is currently working on a feature-length documentary about the history of the food coop movement in the Twin Cities.

Maxwell Becker is IFP MN’s Operations Director, a filmmaker and musician. He—along with fellow Minneapolis College of Art and Design graduates Kevin Russell and Joe Clark—founded Northern Outpost Media, a Minneapolis-based production company that specializes in uniquely organic music videos. The company began in 2008 and produced over 20 episodes of an online web series that focused on the local music scene by showcasing bands and musicians in a live studio environment. A year later, Northern Outpost began producing distinctive music videos that premiered on MTV, The Fuse Network, Pitchfork, Stereogum, and Paste Magazine.