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From Story to Screen: Producing a Professional Short Film

Name: From Story to Screen: Producing a Professional Short Film
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From Idea to the Screen

This free course walks aspiring filmmakers through the full arc of producing a short film — starting with nothing but a story idea and ending with a finished production ready for an audience. It's built around the instructor's own directorial debut, The Painter (2014), used throughout as a real-world case study.

What You'll Cover

Developing a story concept and planning pre-production
Storyboards, budgeting and production documentation
Assembling cast and crew on a limited budget
Film insurance basics
Shooting, wrapping production, and planning post-production visual effects and sound
Preparing for a short film release

Who It's For

Anyone who wants their short film to be seen beyond amateur circles — not just made, but professionally produced and positioned for festivals and audiences. The course includes production documents used on a real shoot and closes with a bonus section for students who complete it.

About this course

How do you start from an idea and 1 you to 40+ crew members, and with more than 10,000 audience members and viewers of your short film?

If you aspire to make a short film that is not just going to be unseen, this course will reveal the steps, tips and tricks to making a professional short film that goes beyond the amateur film space and into the limelight of being seen.

Learn How to Create Your Short Story from Scratch, Avoid the Mistakes Made by Amateurs.

Learn through my very own directorial short debut sample The Painter (2014) on the extra steps and care that goes into creating a professional short production, as well as detailed production information you may need, to eventually work on bigger productions of your own.

Why This Course?

Taught by someone who used to be in your position, but has amassed 40 crew members out of nowhere, screened at multiple film festivals, all this, being just her first directorial debut short film

Step-by-step guide with actual production information and documents used
Detail insights and know-hows that would save you time and money when producing on a shoestring budget

Networking and open collaboration opportunities with instructor and students

Learn How to Become the Professional Short Filmmaker Everyone Wants to Work With.

You will Learn How:

To develop your own story idea
To plan for development and pre-production
Storyboards, budgeting and documentation come together
Find your cast and crew with little to no budget
Film insurances work
To shoot and wrap-up production
To plan for visual effects and sound in post-production
To plan for your short film release

Complete with additional resources, and a fun and engaging teaching style, students who complete the course will also be awarded with a bonus section - kind of like that bonus clip you sit through the entire credit roll at the end of a film.

If you participate in this course, you will walk away becoming more enlightened and empowered with these new insights and knowledge on how to professionally produce your own short story idea in your head to the silver screen.

The best part of it all - this course is utterly and ridiculously FREE.