Former students of Berkeley Digital have Directed and acted as Director of Photography on 2 music videos for Sean "Dirty Money" Combs, 2 videos for .50 Cent, 2 videos for Justin Bieber, and 6 videos for rapper Chris Brown, and have directed and shot more than 20 other major acts.
The video for Bieber, "Never Let You Go", has taken 110 million (and counting) hits on YouTube, making it the 20th most-watched video in the history of the YouTube channel.
A significant number of the founder's former students have also made their marks in the music video field.
These graduates have directed music videos for U2, Green Day, Jet, Kanye West, Gnarls Barkley, Audioslave, The Killers, Courtney Love, The Chemical Brothers, Johnny Cash, Modest Mouse, and Staind.
The career successes of both of these groups of graduates in Los Angeles and in San Francisco has been a result of the ability of students to create music videos within the existing Berkeley Digital curriculum.
It is the program's philosophy that music videos represent an opportunity to practice feature- level work on other peoples' money, and significant music video directors are welcomed and groomed for features in Los Angeles at the agency and management level.
Music videos have played an important role in launching the careers of many extremely successful directors, as diverse as David Fincher, Mark Romanek, Dominic Sena, Russel Mulcahy and Michael Bay.
Classes for the Music Video Track, as they progress across semesters, are as follows:
| First Semester | Second Semester | |
|---|---|---|
| Producing/ Directing 1 | Producing/ Directing 2 | |
| Cinematography 1 | Cinematography 2 | Screenwriting 1 | Screenwriting 2 |
| Final Cut Pro 1 | Final Cut Pro 2 | |
| Improvisation | Sound Design for Film |
| Third Semester | Fourth Semester | |
|---|---|---|
| Producing/ Directing 3 | Directing 4 | |
| Cinematography 3 | Producing 4 | |
| Screenwriting 3 | Cinematography 4 | |
| Final Cut Pro 3/Shake | Screenwriting 4 | |
| Production Design | Thesis Project Track |