Start Your Filmmaking Career: A Video Production Course
What you'll learn
- You will have a complete step-by-step understanding of how to make money with your video skills
- Start making personal projects that matter, that progress you down your filmmaking career
- Develop a professional brand that shares your story with the world
- Land your first clients with techniques that actually work
- Grow your own business, turning your passion into a legitimate career
Requirements
- You should be an aspiring filmmaker wanting to make a career out of your passion
- You should be ready to step outside the box, and take action as a filmmaker
- You don't need fancy equipment, or any experience working professionally as a filmmaker
Description
Start making money with your passion!
Turn your videography skills into a full-time business!
In this in-depth course, Phil Ebiner and Julian Melanson, walk you through seven steps that take you from doing video production work for fun, to landing clients and growing your own business.
If you are a beginner videographer or filmmaker, YouTuber or vlogger, looking to successfully earn a living by making videos, this course is made for you!
STEP 1: Plan for Success
To get going, Julian walks you through getting in the right mindset. He'll break down old paradigms, and shows you a new way of thinking about filmmaking.
STEP 2: Shoot Personal Projects
Making and sharing your own personal videos is the best way to start your filmmaking career. Phil shares his own personal stories of how creating personal projects propelled him to his first paying clients, and how you can do the same.
STEP 3: Develop Your Image
To legitimize your personal video production business, a solid demo reel, website, and solid online presence are key to getting your first clients. Julian takes you through all the steps, so by the end of this step you'll have a better online presence and stronger self-image that helps you as a filmmaker.
STEP 4: How to Actually Land Clients
It's time to get your first paying clients! Phil shows you the ropes - helping you find clients in 4 different way - online, cold calling, through referrals, and in person.
STEP 5: Retain Your Clients
Getting clients to pay your for a video project is only the first step. Retaining clients is the way to consistent work, and growth as a filmmaker. Julian teaches you how to get consistent work by delivering video products that people love.
STEP 6: Business Techniques & Protocol
Let's take your business to the next level! Legitimize your business and protect yourself by incorporating. Negotiate prices to get paid what you're actually work. Use contracts to make sure both you and the client are happy.
STEP 7: Next Level Communication Skills
In this last step of becoming a full-time filmmaker, Julian shows you some high-level t more tools to get and retain clients.
READY TO START YOUR FILMMAKING CAREER?
Enroll now to get started!
WHAT DO YOU GET IN THE COURSE?
3+ hours of premium video lessons
Downloadable resources and business templates
Premium support from both instructors to answer any questions
Feedback on your own video projects, websites, etc.
30-DAY 100% MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
There's no reason to hesitate! Enroll now to see how we can help you take your filmmaking career to the next level!
Who this course is for:
- This course is for beginning to intermediate YouTubers, videographers, filmmakers, editors - really anyone creating videos who wants to make money from their skills
Instructors
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My name is Julian, and I am a full-time teacher and bestselling instructor who is truly dedicated to helping students realize their full potential. With the honor of teaching over 485,000 students from 130+ countries across the globe, I have honed my skills and become an expert in my field.
My focus is on unlocking your potential to 10x your creativity and productivity with AI tools and filmmaking techniques I've learned over the years creating countless amounts of content for clients from many industries.
Join me on this journey, and together let's unleash your creativity and take your skills to the next level!
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My professional background is in video production and editing. I graduated from Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television in 2011. Since then, I've worked on thousands of projects that have appeared in movie theaters, film festivals, television and online.
Today, I create all kinds of things from photographs that can be seen on my Instagram to homemade sourdough bread that feeds my family. Who knows where life will take me. But I know wherever I am, I'll be creating.
Since 2012, I've worked with top experts around the world creating online courses that over three million students have taken.
Course topics include: Photography, Video Production, Business & Digital Marketing, Animation, Graphic Design, AI, ChatGPT, Illustration, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Docker, Writing, YouTube, Procreate, Content Marketing, Maya, Social Media, Instagram, Personal Branding, Communication, Stress Management, Productivity, Time Management, Goal Achievement, Python Programming, Javascript Programming, Java, Programming, Personal Finance, Affinity, Drawing, and more. \
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