From an idea on a napkin to a finished film. Three-act structure & the Hero's Journey, screenwriting format & software, character & dialogue, genres (drama, comedy, thriller, horror, sci-fi, western, noir), pre-production (budgeting, scheduling, storyboarding), the crew (director to best boy), cameras & lenses (focal length, aperture, bokeh), composition & shot types, camera movement (pan, tilt, dolly, crane, Steadicam), three-point lighting, motivated lighting, color & mood, sound design (dialogue, SFX, music, ambience), boom mics & lavaliers, editing (continuity, match-cuts), non-linear editors (Premiere, Final Cut, DaVinci, Avid), sound mixing & loudness, music scoring & licensing, color grading & LUTs, VFX & greenscreen, CGI history, practical effects & stunts, famous directors (Hitchcock, Kubrick, Spielberg, Tarantino, Scorsese, Coppola, Kurosawa, Miyazaki, Bong Joon-ho, Greta Gerwig), animation (2D, 3D, stop-motion, Pixar, Ghibli), documentary filmmaking, short films & music videos, film festivals (Sundance, Cannes, Berlin), the streaming era, and the future (virtual production, AI in film, immersive). 45 units, 675 lessons.