A twelve-week directing practicum built around one recurring short film. You develop story, shot design, performance direction, editing rhythm and sound, then practice each skill immediately against an AI cast and crew fast enough to reshoot before the next class.
What you will do
Direct your own short film across the whole semester, week by week: story, shot design, performance, editing rhythm and sound. The lectures use Before It Stops as their running directing example. The workshops use The Last One as a real production walkthrough, including its references, generated takes, revisions, rough cuts and final scoped edit. Each week you give a director's note, generate against it, judge the result, and redirect — the same loop whether the performer on the other end is a human actor or a model. You walk out with a finished 2–4 minute film of your own and the habit of directing generative tools with the same precision you'd bring to a human cast and crew.
Who it is for
Anyone who wants to practice directing — not prompting — and is willing to treat a generated take the way a director treats a human one: judged against an intention, not against how good it happens to look. No prior filmmaking or AI-tooling experience is assumed; what matters is a willingness to keep giving notes until a take actually matches what you meant.
Where to go next
Lectures: Before It Stops
Learn each directing principle through the course's running example.
Production walkthrough: The Last One
Follow a real short-film workflow from intention and script to the final scoped cut.
Workshops
The weekly schedule and what happens in each teaching workshop.
Assessment
What is marked, what it is worth, and when it is due.
People
Who teaches the course and how to reach them.