
Navigate the complete three-stage filmmaking process: pre production, production, and post production. Learn script locking, budgeting, auditions, locations, shot lists, production schedules, and the post-production workflow.
Craft dialogue that moves the story forward by revealing what characters want, what they believe, and how context and obstacles shape intention and action in a screenplay.
Explore how eye level, high angle, low angle, and Dutch angle shots shape a scene by signaling power, vulnerability, context, and emotional tension.
Explore shot sizes from establishing to extreme close up, including extreme long shot and full shot. Learn how framing, distance, and editing convey setting, relationships, emotion, and narrative meaning.
Explore shot selection through four criteria—function, importance, emotion, and theme—illustrating how long or extreme long shots convey strength, and close shots reveal emotion, as Koreeda's maborosi demonstrates.
Explore cinematic lighting beyond the 3-point setup to shape mood and character psychology, using natural, artificial, and ambient light to guide the eye.
Explore how production design builds authentic worlds that influence actors' performances. See how lookbooks, color palettes, and historically accurate sets shape mood and storytelling.
Direct actors to achieve best performances by understanding their goals, obstacles, and stakes, maintaining on-set tone, answering questions, and using improvisation in a collaborative filmmaking process.
Learn the basics of editing in Adobe Premiere Pro, including creating a project, organizing media into bins, assembling sequences, trimming clips, adding transitions, effects, text, audio, and exporting.
This is a comprehensive filmmaking course that guides you step by step on how to convert your idea into a full-fledged movie.
Having written and directed 2 feature films, as well as more than a dozen short films, I take you through this amazing journey of realizing your story on the screen.
Here's what you will learn in this course:
· Idea: Sources of ideas for films, how to nurture them, and convert them to a script.
· Stages of a Film: Understand what happens in pre-production, production and post production.
· The Story: Learn all the elements needed to craft a compelling story, as well as understand what makes an interesting character on screen.
· Screenwriting: Understand Acts 1, 2 and 3 in depth with film examples.
· Dialogues: Explore the characteristics of good dialogue writing in filmmaking.
· Cinematography: Right from the basics to the choice of different shots on set, know what goes behind the camera!
· Lighting: Let there be light! Understand different kinds of lighting techniques and when to use them.
· Production Design: What makes a really good set? Learn all about production design with examples from Oscar nominated movies.
· Acting: Lights, Camera, Action! Know what it takes to direct actors and get the best performances on screen.
· Editing: Uncover secrets of director-editor partnership as they strive to tell a good story.
· Color Correction and Color Grading: Learn how to set the right tone and mood with your color palette.
· Music: Explore the role played by music in getting audiences to feel all the emotions.
· Sound Design and Mixing: Get the best sounding sound!
· Export: Know the best settings to export your film.
· Film Distribution: A look at various ways you can get your film to the audiences around the world.
By the end of this filmmaking course, you will be well equipped to make your own film.