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Learn a specific skill set from Academy Award and Emmy winning filmmakers
Are you only interested in one area of filmmaking? Then FilmSkills Courses are for you. Each course features 10-15 video tutorials featuring working professional filmmakers, projects and exercises, and quizzes to test your knowledge. If you achieve an 85% or higher, you will receive a personalized Certificate of Completion, and will be added to our international Certification Database, used by production companies and film commissions globally.
Screenwriting Course
Learn the step-by-step process of writing a script from top Hollywood writers. You will learn how to develop a marketable idea, create dynamic characters, unlock story structure, target your rewrites, and finally learn how to market your script.
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Final Draft Course
Final Draft is the industry’s leading screenwriting software. Final Draft Vice President of Sales, Zack Gutin, “Breaking Bad” script supervisor Jenn Carroll, screenwriter of “Now You See Me,” Eduard Ricourt, take you through the step-by-step guide to working with Final Draft.
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Scheduling & Budgeting Course
Learn how to break down the script, create a shooting schedule, manage insurance requirements, and plan the budget from the producers and 1st ADs of Titanic, Avatar, Total Recall, and dozens of movies that have grossed billions at the box office.
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Producing Course
Learn how to start and run a production company, raise money, manage payroll and production expenses, negotiate with vendors, work with unions, and hire the cast and crew, including, SAG-AFTRA actors from working Hollywood producers.
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Production Design Course
Learn how to shape a convincing world around your characters, how to build a flat, advanced set design and construction techniques. Learn the skills to break down a script and design and dress a story-centric set, and the roles of the art department.
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Safety Training Course
Improve the safety on set, reduce the risk of accidents, and protect yourself from liability. The FilmSkills Safety Training Course adapts the OSHA and California Safety Pass program for students, independent, non-union, and union crew persons.
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Camera and Lens Course
Unlock the full potential of your camera with of the most thorough and complete cinematography courses available. Whatever camera type you’re using – whether it’s a DSLR or Arri Alexa, learn cinematic techniques and produce professional results.
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Basic Lighting Course
Go on set with Emmy and Academy-Award-winning cinematographers as they teach you the art and craft of cinema lighting. Get the cinematic look you want with Hollywood lighting techniques. Shot at Panavision Studios in Los Angeles.
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Advanced Lighting Course
Learn advanced techniques for reducing, softening and shaping light, how to work with sublight, advanced key light techniques for feature films, commercials, and music videos, green screen cinematography, and advanced natural lighting techniques.
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Industry Career Course
Learn how to start your career as a full time filmmaker! Over 100 A-list Hollywood filmmakers reveal how to break into the business and make a living as a professional filmmaker. This course is a must if you want to work in the entertainment business.
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Cinematography Technique Course
Designed for both directors and cinematographers, the learn how to craft the frame, determine actors’ eye lines, shot types, and composition. Film and video techniques, analog and digital, working with aspect ratios, screen direction, and much more.
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Grip and Rigging Course
Learn commonly-used grip equipment, proper rigging techniques, how and when to use clamps and stands, how to set-up dolly track and use a camera dolly, as well as the roles of the grip department from the time they get a phone call for a job to managing the politics on set.
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Directing Actors Course
Learn how to work with actors, run successful auditions, conduct rehearsals for best results, perform script breakdowns for story and character, how to avoid common directing mistakes, and direct extras from Emmy-winning Hollywood television and feature film directors.
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Directors Craft Course
Learn the cinematic language and techniques for interpreting the story and crafting a visual experience. Learn how to begin a project, break down the script for story and character, design the visual story, block actors, plan camera coverage, and storyboarding techniques.
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Documentary Course
Learn the entire process of making a documentary, how to find the story, the right gear to choose, advanced interview techniques, choosing the right locations, how to shoot effective B-roll, and finally how to build a well-paced, engaging story in the editing room.
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Editing Course
Learn how to properly shoot your footage on set, when to cut from one shot to the next, shot selection, how to create the emotion, data management workflows, building the assembly cut, rough cut, fine cut, online process, and color grading.
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Audio Post-Production Course
Learn the entire process from editing dialogue and ADR to creating realistic Foley sounds. Learn how to work with a composer and license music, and finally how to mix everything together. Learn the techniques and process of making perfect audio in post.
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Marketing and Distribution Course
Learn how to successfully market your movie. Go behind the scenes of the American Film Market and the Sundance Film Festival to see how deals are struck, navigate the tricky waters of domestic and foreign distribution, and how to build a marketing strategy.
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- 3 months duration - learn at your own pace
- Engaging on-set video tutorials take you inside the process
- Includes quizzes to test your knowledge
- Ask questions to the instructors and get personal feedback
- Downloadable examples, files, and contracts
- Learn from Oscar and Emmy winning filmmakers
- Earn a personalized certificate
Each course is only $199
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