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Skillkraft Academy · AI filmmaking

Eight weeks.
One finished film.

Learn to make films with AI the way our studio does: story first, every frame approved as a still, then motion, voice, edit and grade. You leave with a short film of your own.

8 weeks16 live sessions1 short film each
What you’ll make

A short film.
Yours.

Every week builds one part of it. By week eight you have a finished, graded short film with voice, sound and titles, made with the same tools and workflow we use for clients.

  1. 01A script and beat sheet
  2. 02A look book and world bible
  3. 03A stills sheet, approved
  4. 04A graded, scored short film
  5. 05A vertical cut for social
  6. 06Captions and AI labels
A still frame in a sun-bleached seventies lookAI-made
01 · The still you approve
AI-made
02 · The same frame, moving
How we teach

Four rules that outlast
every new model.

AI tools change every month. The craft doesn’t. We teach the principles first, then the tools that serve them today.

01

Still before motion

Motion is slow and costly to change. A still takes minutes. So every shot is approved as a frame first.

02

One world, locked

Characters, places and the grade are fixed early, so shot thirty matches shot one.

03

You steer, AI finishes

Timing, framing and the camera stay your decisions. The model adds texture, light and detail.

04

Sound makes it real

Voice, ambience and hits on the cut turn generated clips into a scene.

The course · week by week

Sixteen sessions,
script to premiere.

Two live sessions a week. Each week ends with one piece of your film done.

Week 01Story & scriptA locked script and a beat sheet
Session 01

From idea to premise

Find a story that fits a few minutes of screen time. One character, one want, one thing in the way.

Session 02

Script and beats

Write the script, cut it into beats and turn each beat into a first shot list.

You leave with

A locked script and a beat sheet

Week 02Look developmentA look book and a one-page world bible
Session 03

Build the world once

Places, era, props, light and colour, written down once so every shot can draw on it.

Session 04

Style, camera, lens, grade

Why a lens changes distance and depth, not just colour. You choose your film’s four settings in the Look Builder.

You leave with

A look book and a one-page world bible

Week 03Stills & consistent charactersA full stills sheet, reviewed by the studio
Session 05

Every shot starts as a still

Light source, composition and depth. Why vague words give average pictures, and specific materials give yours.

Session 06

Same face in every shot

Character and location sheets, reference images, and a clean-up pass so all frames look like one film.

You leave with

A full stills sheet, reviewed by the studio

Week 04MotionEvery approved still, moving
Session 07

From still to shot

Animate approved frames with one plain sentence about what moves. Chain the last frame of one shot into the next.

Session 08

Camera, control and drift

Steer the move yourself, let the AI finish the surface. Spot drift in faces and hands, and fix one second instead of the whole shot.

You leave with

Every approved still, moving

Week 05Voice, dialogue & soundA voice track and a full sound bed
Session 09

Voices that act

Cast and direct voices in ElevenLabs. Read it flat first, then direct only the lines that sound wrong. Consent for any real voice.

Session 10

Sound as sync points

Silence is what gives AI footage away. Ambience, Foley, hits on the cut, and music you are allowed to use.

You leave with

A voice track and a full sound bed

Week 06Editing & coverageA picture-locked cut
Session 11

Coverage

Wide, medium, close. Eyelines, screen direction and the 180-degree line, and how to generate the shots a scene is missing.

Session 12

The cut

Rhythm and pacing that serve the story. J and L cuts, rough cut to fine cut in DaVinci Resolve or CapCut.

You leave with

A picture-locked cut

Week 07Colour, titles & motion graphicsA graded film with titles
Session 13

One grade for the whole film

Match shots to each other, LUTs versus grading, and the grain and gentle frame drift that make stills read as film.

Session 14

Titles that belong

Opening title, credits and lower thirds in HyperFrames, designed to sit inside your look.

You leave with

A graded film with titles

Week 08Rights, delivery & premiereYour finished film, delivered and labelled
Session 15

Rights and the EU AI Act

Who owns AI output, consent for faces and voices, music rights, platform rules, and how to label AI content.

Session 16

Delivery and premiere

Masters, a vertical cut, captions and labels. Then we screen every student’s film together.

You leave with

Your finished film, delivered and labelled

Tools you’ll use

The studio’s own toolkit.

Stills, motion, voice, motion graphics, edit and grade. The same stack behind every film on this site.

Look BuilderSeedreamNano BananaSeedanceElevenLabsHyperFramesDaVinci ResolveCapCut

No coding needed.

Who it’s for

People with a story to tell.

  • Filmmakers & editorsAdd AI to the craft you already have, without losing control of the film.
  • Marketing & brand teamsMake ads and brand films in-house, and know what good looks like.
  • Designers & illustratorsTake your style from still images into motion and sound.
  • Teachers & trainersTurn what you teach into short films people actually watch.
Format

Live, small,
hands on.

01

Live online sessions

Two a week for eight weeks. You work along, then build on it between sessions.

02

Studio feedback

Our filmmakers review your stills sheet and your cuts, the same way we review client work.

03

A cohort that finishes together

You start together, share work as you go, and premiere your films together in week eight.

04

Dates and price

On request. Apply or write to us and we’ll send the next cohort’s details.

Skillkraft Academy

Make your first film
with us.

Tell us a little about yourself and the film you want to make. We reply with dates and price.