Hybrid Filmmaking, class 1
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Learn AI skills you can put to work
Hands-on courses in filmmaking, marketing, business, and technology. Learn through guided projects and earn a certificate when you finish.
- Privileged access
- 52 modules
- 5+ hours
Courses
Our courses
Learn AI for filmmaking, business, and your everyday work.
Combine traditional filmmaking craft with controllable AI production, then finish a hybrid film with a documented workflow.
Inside the course
- Outcomes: what hybrid filmmaking changes
- Filmmaking foundations
- Storytelling and the hero script
- Integrating AI into production
- Choosing the right tools
Your final project
Finish a hybrid film and document your production workflow.
One permissioned campaign-to-pipeline workflow, built on your own data and measured after launch.
Teaching and learning decisions first, then the policies, data rules and reviews that make them safe to adopt.
The whole picture of an AI system, taught to the depth one real deployment needs.
Two safe AI workflows in daily use within thirty days, with the business result written down.
The method
Learn by building a real project
Watch the lessons, follow the guided exercises, and apply what you learn to your own work.
- ChooseOpen
Choose a task you want to improve.
- Build
Build your project with step-by-step exercises.
- Use
Put your project to work.
- Measure
Compare the results with how you worked before.
- Share
Save your process and share what you built.
Your account saves your progress and course materials.
Apply to joinStarts September 12- Recorded lessons from people who run these systems
- Guided labs on your own workflow
- Templates for the brief and the outcome sheet
- A recorded baseline and a measured result
Inside hybrid filmmaking
Learn hybrid filmmaking in 10 classes
Start with framing and storytelling, learn how AI fits into production, then make your own videos. Select any class below to see its lesson and practical exercises.
01What You Will Learn
02Filmmaking Foundations
03Storytelling That Keeps People Watching
04How AI Video Generation Works
05Choosing the Right AI Tools
06The Multimodal Agentic Loop
07Creating a Video Tutorial with AI
08Creating a Micro-Drama with Consistent Characters
09Editing Real Footage with AI
10Creating Motion Graphics with AI
Adaptive learning research
Learning that learns what you need
We are developing an intelligent system that learns from your progress and goals, then adapts the explanations, examples, and practice to what you need next.
Start with your goal
Connect what you learn to the work you want to do.
Understand your progress
Identify what you understand and where you need support.
Adapt your next lesson
Choose a clearer explanation, a relevant example, or more practice.
In their own words
People who took the class
Each clip is one person answering on the day of the class. Press one to hear the whole answer.
This is a good product. You bring value and I support that.
Alice Huang
It makes it easier to cut through the noise.
Carlneil Domkam
This time I really learned a lot.
Cecilia Xia
It is actually almost essential to your workflow.
Patrick Damaso
Instructors
Meet your instructors
Learn with specialists in AI, education, and film.
Lead instructor
All five courses
Roan Weigert
Developer Relations AI Engineer, San Francisco
Hackathon judge and AI content creator, and host of the AI Insights San Francisco podcast. Writes this curriculum and records every core lesson.
The bookWorld Models Applied in Video Production
Aaron Jimenez
View profile, Aaron Jimenez on LinkedIn
Hendrik Krack
View profile, Hendrik Krack on LinkedIn
Loc H. Nguyen, Ed.D.
View profile, Loc H. Nguyen, Ed.D. on LinkedIn
For companies and teams
Bring AI training to your team
Help your team apply AI to the work they already do, through guided courses and practical projects.
- Choose a relevant course
- Explore filmmaking, marketing, education, infrastructure, and small-business workflows.
- Start with a real goal
- Tell us what your team wants to improve, how many people will join, and your preferred dates.
- Plan the training together
- We will review your request and contact you by email to discuss the next steps.
Review Judge board
Practitioners judge the curriculum and the events
Our judges review the curriculum and assess the projects learners present.
Liz Zhang on the Review Judge BoardLiz Zhang
The Multimodal Society
AI developer relations, two companies founded, and a community of 250,000. Studied at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Yunbin Bae on the Review Judge BoardYunbin Bae
a1mobile
Design and human-computer-interaction research, and one company founded. Studied at the University of Maryland.
Abhinav Balasubramanian on the Review Judge BoardAbhinav Balasubramanian
NVIDIA
Generative AI, agentic systems, RAG and AI observability. Studied at San Jose State University.
Abhi Vasanth on the Review Judge BoardAbhi Vasanth
Pacific Gas and Electric
Data engineering at one of the largest utilities in the United States. Studied at Udacity.
Sachin Gupta on the Review Judge BoardSachin Gupta
eBay
Engineering leadership on systems built for massive scale. Studied at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Community partners
Two AI communities you can learn alongside
Both run their own events, in person and online, and both are open to join. Neither is part of this program. Here is what each one does, in their own words.
Questions
Common questions
Privileged access has no course fee. Create one account to apply for Hybrid Filmmaking or join the waitlist for another course.
This is a non-commercial education project that Roan funds and runs. Privileged access is offered at no charge because the academy exists to teach rather than to sell.
A course completes when your workflow runs live and you have measured it. You record a baseline in module 1, launch the workflow into a working environment, then measure the same thing again. That pairing is what makes the completion record worth sharing.
Hybrid Filmmaking accepts applications for the current intake. The other courses accept waitlist registrations for next month's intake.
Name, role, organization, and a few questions about the workflow you want to improve. It takes about a minute, and it is what lets the guided labs use your own workflow as the project.
One workflow you own, permission to change it, and the tools your team already uses. Applied AI infrastructure fundamentals also assumes a computer you can install software on, hybrid filmmaking assumes a phone or camera, and AI starter for small business runs on everyday business tools. Every course supplies sample data for the labs where your own material is restricted.
A one-page record inside the course. Before you launch, you note a baseline on time, cost, or quality. After you launch, you measure again. The sheet holds both numbers and the difference between them.
Pick by the work you are responsible for. Go-to-market for marketing, sales and RevOps. Hybrid filmmaking for anyone making films or video. AI education, ethics and data compliance for educators and whoever owns how a team uses AI. Infrastructure fundamentals for the first deployment. The small business starter is a short first win before a longer course.
Roan Weigert records the core lessons that establish the method. Specialist sessions come from invited practitioners who run these workflows in production, and the Practitioner Review Judge Board reads the courses each term and judges the events where learners present what they deployed.
Yes. Each person enrols individually, so each gets their own labs, baseline and outcome sheet. Groups usually set one shared launch date and review the deployments together.
It stays inside this program. Your profile and progress run your course and build your outcome record, and you can request a copy or deletion at any time.
Start with your first lesson
Pick the course closest to your job, watch the first lesson, and finish with a written baseline for one process you own.
Apply to joinStarts September 12Or start somewhere else