Your clips already look good — this is how a hundred of them add up to a story someone watches to the end.
You can already make a gorgeous five-second clip. Then you try to make ten of them tell one story and everything comes apart: your lead's face changes between shots, the mouths don't match the words, the cuts feel arbitrary, and the result looks like a showreel instead of a film. This course is about the part nobody posts online. You write a treatment and a shot list before you generate a frame. You lock a character's look so she is recognisably the same person from her first scene to her last. You record voices, sync them to lips, and mix them so dialogue sits above the music. You cut on action, grade every clip to one look, and export the right file for the right platform. You learn what you are allowed to use commercially, what festivals make you disclose, and how to get the finished piece in front of people. Ten modules, one hundred hands-on briefs, no code. Five capstones — a narrative short, a music video, a documentary segment, a series pilot, a commercial spot — and you submit any three to earn your certificate.
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Make your protagonist the same person in shot 20 as in shot 1 — and know which technique to reach for on each shot.
Nothing breaks the spell faster than a mouth still moving after the line ended — this is how you fix that.
Decide what moves and how the camera follows it, instead of taking whatever wobble the model felt like giving you.
Score it, layer in the room tone and the footsteps, and the exact same footage suddenly feels expensive.
Learn where to cut so imperfect AI footage reads as a deliberate style rather than a flaw you couldn't fix.
When the model refuses to give you the shot, build it from pieces — masking, layering, and tracking it yourself.
Twenty clips from three different models can still look like one film, and color is what ties them together.
Know what you actually own, what a festival will make you disclose, and what one unlicensed track can cost you later.
A finished film nobody sees is a hobby — pick the festivals, the platform, and the press kit before you hit export.
Complete all modules, then submit the required number of capstone projects. Each must earn a passing rating from an admin reviewer.
Produce a 2-minute narrative short film with at least one dialogue scene (lip-synced), a recurring character, and a visible 3-act structure. Submit: final MP4, beat sheet, shot list with retry counts, and a 300-word process note on the hardest problem (consistency, lip sync, or pacing) and how you solved it.
Produce a 3-minute music video for an original or licensed track. Requirements: every cut must land on a beat or phrase in the track, at least 15 distinct shots, and motion that responds to the music's dynamics (camera moves with a swell, cuts tighten on the chorus). Submit: MP4, track credit, shot-to-beat timing document.
Produce a 3-minute documentary-style segment on a subject of your choosing. Real-world or speculative. Requirements: voiceover narration, AI-generated archival-style footage (or real archival if licensing allows), interviews (real or AI-synthesised with clear disclosure), and at least one data visualisation. Submit: MP4, narration script, source/fact-check notes.
Produce episode 1 of a hypothetical mini-series — a 4-minute piece that establishes a protagonist and an ongoing question. The protagonist must appear recognisably the same across at least 12 shots and 3 distinct scenes (different lighting, different wardrobe). Submit: MP4, character reference sheet, and a consistency audit rating each scene on a 1-5 scale.
Produce a 60-second commercial spec spot for a real brand (any consumer product). Requirements: match the brand's existing visual language, have a clear one-sentence message, include a legible logo / product moment, and target a specific platform (Instagram Reels, YouTube pre-roll, OOH). Submit: MP4 (in the correct aspect ratio for the platform), a one-page creative brief, and the brand guidelines you were matching.
The editor's bible. Read before Module 6 on editing and pacing.