Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series Presents: 

"Treatment Writing Workshop" with Diane Martel
Music Video Director • Choreographer • Performance Artist • Filmmaker

Free and open to the community.

The creative process of making music videos (or any media project) begins with writing a treatment. In this interactive workshop, Director Diane Martel will share tips on how to write an effective treatment that expresses a filmmaker’s concept, direction, aesthetic, and style. Whether you're making music videos, documentaries, commercials, or pitch-books for film, television and emerging forms of media, effective treatment writing is an important skill to turn your creative vision into reality.

Diane Martel got her start directing music videos in the 1990s for Def Jam and rap artists such as Method Man, ODB, Redman, Gang Starr, and Mobb Deep. She was also the go-to director for Mariah Carey in the ‘90s. In the 2000s, Martel directed videos for N.E.R.D. and Pharrell Williams, Pink, Beyoncé, J.Lo, White Stripes, The Killers, Ciara, Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Franz Ferdinand, Nicki Minaj, and Coldplay. She directed two of 2013's most iconic videos: Miley Cyrus's “We Can't Stop” and “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke feat. T.I. and Pharrell. Martel was also the director/creative director for Miley's Bangerz Tour.

For more information about this event and the entire Visiting Filmmaker Series, please visit: https://cinema.uoregon.edu/events-screenings-talks-faculty-news-news/cinema-studies-presents-art-music-video-visiting-filmmaker

The UO Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series is Funded by the Generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment.