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
Course content
- Preview05:41
- 3 questionsWhat are your goals?
Instructors
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- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 4,695 Reviews
- 119,619 Students
- 4 Courses
"I'm a full-time film director & best selling instructor who teaches aspiring video creators how to create incredible careers and videos.”
As a young kid I'd listen to music with my headphones on full blast, imagining scenes and stories that fit together perfectly with all the sounds I was hearing. I then quickly found my life's passion, creating films that engage the visual and auditory senses in ways that move people.
Today this passion has lead me to do the same thing, on a much larger scale.
Through creating high end commercials with well-established clients, artists, and brands from around the world, I’ve discovered what make films great.
I found out that it doesn’t matter what budget you have, which software your editing on, or what equipment you own. What DOES matter are the underlying principles and techniques behind what you do that creates something amazing.
Learning this on my own outside of “traditional” schooling, I truly wanted to create a space where others could benefit from the knowledge I'd gained. I created a youtube series designed to “help creative minded, turn their passion into a career.”
Today, this channel has been showcased by film festivals and websites such as, "NoFilmSchool" with over 3m views & 46k inspired followers.
Now, I’m bringing these teachings deeper and more in depth to the students of Udemy.
Where I will literally, teach you everything I know about:
○ Directing, filming, and editing like a (boss) talented professional.
○ Turning your passion into a career, aka making money doing what you love.
○ Enhancing your creativity and becoming a CREATOR.
A little more about my film background:
Founder & Creative director at Visual MVMT
November 2007 to Present
At this Los Angeles based, fully in-house creative agency I've produced, directed, filmed, and edited a bajillion projects with clients such as:
• Levi’s
• Kaskade
• The Ritz Carlton
Director of Visual Media at DJcity
August 2010 to Present
DJcity is the world’s leading subscription-based record pool for DJ’s, musicians, and producers.
Since coming on board, I've worked with Red Bull, Pioneer, Serato, and our social media has grown to:
• 145k Youtube Followers
• 470k Facebook Likes
Filmer & Director at Destination Luxury
April 2009 to Present
Destination Luxury is an online magazine that focuses on the luxury market. I've worked alongside the Destination Luxury team to create cinematic films and marketing campaigns in locations such as:
• Honolulu, Hawaii
• Montego Bay, Jamaica
• Mykonos, Greece
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 266,695 Reviews
- 2,134,860 Students
- 134 Courses
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more about phil
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 been creating online courses that over two million students from around the world have taken. Course topics include everything from photography and video to design and business courses. If I can't teach it , I collaborate with other experts who share their skills with absolute beginners.
Video School is my website where you can take my online courses. You can also find them on top course platforms like Udemy.
Photography & Friends is a website and community I created to help new photographers become confident with their cameras.
I can't wait to see you in class!
- Phil
- 4.6 Instructor Rating
- 281,102 Reviews
- 2,085,371 Students
- 155 Courses
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