THE NEWBIE FILM ACADEMY
Where New Filmmakers Begin
Learn the Craft • Develop Your Vision • Tell Your Story
My First Book is a guided program for aspiring authors who know they have something to write but may not know where to begin.
You’ll learn how to organize your ideas, identify your audience, create your chapter structure, develop your manuscript, revise your writing, and understand the steps toward publishing your first book.
What you’ll learn:
Discovering your book idea
Identifying your target reader
Creating chapter headings and an outline
Developing your writing routine
Turning voice notes and ideas into written content
Editing and proofreading
Understanding self-publishing
Preparing your book for release
Beginning your book marketing plan
Perfect for: New authors who need structure, accountability, and guidance to finally get their book written.
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My First Movie-is designed for first-time filmmakers who have a story to tell but need help understanding how a movie actually gets made. walk you through the filmmaking process from the original idea to pre-production, production, and post-production. You’ll learn how to organize your project, build your team, prepare for filming, understand what happens on set, and move your film toward completion.
What you’ll learn:
Developing your film idea
Understanding pre-production
Building your production team
Casting actors
Creating a realistic budget
Preparing for your shoot
Understanding what happens on set
Working with your editor
Completing and preparing your film for an audience
Perfect for: First-time filmmakers who are ready to stop talking about making a movie and start learning how to make one.
Turn your story idea into a screenplay ready for production.
Full description:
Screenwriting teaches beginning writers how to take an idea and develop it into a properly structured screenplay.
You’ll learn how to create memorable characters, build conflict, write natural dialogue, structure scenes, and move your story from beginning to end while learning the fundamentals of screenplay formatting.
What you’ll learn:
Developing your story idea
Creating characters
Understanding story structure
Writing scenes with purpose
Creating believable dialogue
Building conflict
Screenplay formatting
Rewriting and strengthening your script
Preparing your screenplay for production
Perfect for: New screenwriters, filmmakers, playwrights, and storytellers who want to write for film.
Film Editing introduces beginning filmmakers to the post-production process and the creative decisions that bring a movie together.
Students learn how to organize footage, build scenes, choose strong takes, work with dialogue and sound, create pacing, and prepare a project for final delivery.
What you’ll learn:
Understanding the editing workflow
Organizing footage and files
Building a rough cut
Cutting scenes for emotion and story
Working with dialogue and sound
Basic music placement
Titles and credits
Color correction basics
Exporting your finished project
Perfect for: Beginning filmmakers, content creators, directors, and aspiring editors.