Course Information
Course Overview
(2025 RELAUNCH) Everything from Pre-Production to Video Editing | Cinematography, Video Production and Filmmaking
This filmmaking course with over 70,000+ students worldwide covers all the aspects of planning, equipment, setting up, filming, lighting, sound recording, video production, and editing an incredible video.
If you are a beginner YouTuber, Instagrammer, TikToker, video creator, or filmmaker looking to successfully create awesome videos, then this course is made for you!
[ NEW 2025 UPDATE: I've just added 7.5 hours of brand new content, 24 downloadable assets, and 70 video lessons which cover everything you need to take your videos to the next level! ]
Here are some key skills you'll walk away with from this course:
1. Gain a film school level understanding of the video creation process from start to finish
2. Turn your ideas into a clear shotlist and plan out all your important video details
3. Use analytics to research your niche and drive more views/audience engagement
4. Confidently use all of your camera settings, functionality, and video equipment
5. Understand all of the theory, artistic, practical, and creative aspects of filmmaking
5. Properly setup, frame, light, capture cinematic looking footage, and record crystal clear audio
6. Edit all of your content into high quality looking and sounding videos
These are the main topics you'll gain confidence, knowledge, and skill in:
1. Personal and Creative Development
Before I even dive into the filmmaking aspects, I explain the secrets other courses leave out. These principles act as a framework for your creativity to build on, which include:
• Creative self discovery
• Optimized daily routine
• Life map and progress tracking
• Emulating others success
• Clarity of video production goals
2. Pre-Production: Research, Planning, and Setting Your Videos Up for Success
This step is one of the most crucial and misunderstood parts of creating an incredible video. Here I explain how to properly plan and develop your videos before the production process, including:
• Guidelines that all succesful films follow
• Entire pre-production process
• Research and development
• Creating characters, story, and shotlist
3. Production: Gear, Settings, Cinematography, Lighting, Framing, Sound, and More
This is my favorite part, here I share the golden rules and timeless principles of filmmaking that will allow you to create incredible videos regardless of what equipment you are using. This portion will absolutely have the most impact on your videos. A few of these techniques include:
• Mastering your lenses
• Key principles of lighting
• Sound recording fundamentals
• Creating cinematic imagery
• Framing, shot choice, and camera movement
4. Post-Production: Color Correction, Video Editing, Filters, Presets, and Exporting
The most complex and time consuming part of any video is the video editing process. Here, I shed some light on using this step to create proffesional looking videos that stand out among the sea of other online video content.
• Capturing, organizing, and creating your initial edit
• 4 main factors of when to make your edits
• Music, audio fx, and sound design
• Crafting an awesome looking montage
• Color correction and color grading
• The best export settings for social media
Film and edit better videos no matter what:
Whether you're filming Instagram videos, YouTube videos, short films, music videos, documentaries, videos for professional clients, personal projects, on a smartphone or camera... The actionable takeaways from this course will benefit you regardless of your equipment or budget.
You'll have lifetime access to:
185 individual video lessons
24 course chapters
13 hours of learning content
19 downloadable assets
18 hands-on learning activities
2 expert guest speakers
100 gigabytes of streamable content
Community of 65,000+ fellow students
Lifetime access to the tutorials and assets
Updates to all future course materials
One on one with me in the Q&A section
If you want to create content like never before, save years of trial and error, learn the entire video creation process, and create more videos than ever... then this is the course for you!
Course Content
- 24 section(s)
- 188 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Course Introduction
- Section 2 Personal Development: Creativity, Setting Goals & Making a Plan
- Section 3 Insights & Inspiration for Being a Modern Day Video Creator
- Section 4 Pre-Production: Develop Your Video Concept & Characters
- Section 5 Pre-Production: Create Your Story & Stylesheet
- Section 6 Pre-Production: Emulation, Remixing & Tracking Progress
- Section 7 Pre-Production Extra Section: Research & Plan Out Successful Videos
- Section 8 Camera Settings: Shutter Speed, Aperture, Picture Profile, ISO & White Balance
- Section 9 Production: Lenses, Functionality, Depth of Field & Lens Types
- Section 10 Production: Intro to Lighting Techniques, Tips & Terminology
- Section 11 Production: Lighting Your Entire Scene with Studio Light
- Section 12 Production: Lighting Your Entire Scene with Natural Light
- Section 13 Production: Sound Recording, Microphones & Audio
- Section 14 Production: Theory of Filming Fundamentals, Framing & Coverage
- Section 15 Production: Types of Framing, Composition, Rule of Thirds & Frame Balancing
- Section 16 Production: Cinematography, Camera Movement, Multiple Cameras & Shotlists
- Section 17 Post-Production: Intro to Editing Fundamentals, Workflow & Organization
- Section 18 Post-Production: Theory, Editing Concepts, Storytelling & Shot Choice
- Section 19 Post-Production: Key Editing Principles, Continuity & Editing Theory
- Section 20 Post-Production: Main Editing Steps & Creating an Edit (Practical)
- Section 21 Post-Production: How to Break the Rules Properly
- Section 22 Post-Production: Types of Montage & How to Effectively Use Montage
- Section 23 Post-Production: Final Post Production Steps
- Section 24 Course Conclusion
What You’ll Learn
- Complete mastery over lenses, lighting, sound recording, cinematography, and editing!, Create your own incredible videos from scratch with a brand new understanding of filmmaking!, Understand timeless video principles that will stay with you in all projects, forever!, Gain a film school level understanding of conceptualizing, shooting, and editing a project!, Take an idea and fully translate it into your own unique style of video!, Expand your creativity though understanding essential filmmaking theories, principles, and ideas!, Produce amazing content without expensive equipment, it's about the person behind the equipment!, Custom downloadable PDF's to map out and track your career and video making progress!
Reviews
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OOyediran Isaac Ayomide
Loving it so far
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TThiago Almeida
gostei de ter um conteúdo mais preparatório em relação ao comportamento, isso com certeza irá ajudar na parte técnica.
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MMike Martinez
Ok, well I'm only 15% through but it's been pretty solid so far. Easy to understand, thorough. Would def recommend.
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OOliwia Ogrodniczak
I was not expecting to do a Udemy course and end up loving it, much less to then enjoy analysing lighting setups, camera transitions, and emotional cues in the soundtrack of everything I watch, but here we are, so... The Complete Filmmaker Guide led by Julian Melanson is probably the most comprehensive and immersive piece of online learning I’ve ever done. It has it all: a holistic and engaging intro, the A–Z of filmmaking, a ton of useful resources, and all the knowledge in a digestible and easy-to-follow format.