The AI Video Generation Masterclass is a comprehensive, hands-on course designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to create high-quality videos using AI technology. This course delves into the latest tools, techniques, and trends in AI-driven video production, covering everything from basic concepts to advanced applications. You'll learn how to harness AI for video creation, editing, and enhancement, enabling you to produce professional-grade videos with ease.

In this course, we explore the specific AI tools that can improve the depth, efficiency and quality of a journalist’s work rather than specifically create the media for the output (something we do in more depth in sister courses).

The AI landscape is changing and developing all the time, so we constantly update this course to bring you the very latest AI tools to help with research, writing, news gathering, contributor searching, backgrounder production, audience engagement and much more.

This in-depth training course is designed specifically for newsrooms and digital publishers navigating the rise of generative AI (Gen AI). With AI increasingly shaping content creation, this course addresses the ethical challenges and issues unique to journalistic integrity, audience trust, and the responsible use of AI. Participants will gain critical insights into maintaining ethical standards and implementing policies that ensure transparency, accuracy, and accountability.

Learn about the AI tools that don't just create synthetic media, but more importantly, those AI tools that can supercharge your whole production workflow. Whether you're a newsroom, a digital publishing team, a video production team, a podcast producer, discover the AI tools that will energise your efficiency and help you create better content and grow audience numbers and engagement. The definitive AI Masterclass for anyone working in Media

This training course demystifies AI image generation, substantiates the skills of those already generating images using AI and shows you how to get the best out of the big four image generators. We explore prompt engineering, parameters, seeds, weighting and everything. Everything you need to know to be able to create exactly the images you want from AI.

This comprehensive course will take you on a creative journey from the basics of AI image generation using MidJourney to advanced techniques that unlock the full potential of this cutting-edge tool. In the beginner modules, you'll get comfortable with MidJourney’s interface, learning how to prompt the AI effectively, tweak image outputs, and understand the fundamentals of AI-generated art. We'll also cover best practices for creating visually stunning images that align with your artistic vision.

This course will take you from the absolute basics of the first ideas, through story development, owning the project, securing access, pitching, proposal writing, story development, pre-production planning, budgeting, the difference between 'good' and 'great' documentaries, funding, commissioning, self-funding, self-production, crowdfunding, distribution, sales agents.

Welcome to ‘Only Connect’, the ultimate Masterclass dedicated to the science of creating successful videos for social media platforms and unlocking the secrets to making them go viral. In an era where video content dominates the digital landscape, understanding what makes a video captivating and shareable is essential for anyone looking to stand out and connect with a global audience. This masterclass is designed to help you create a joined-up social media strategy that builds an audience and then drives them where you want them to go. capture attention and drive engagement across various social media channels.

The impact of AI on society is perhaps most evident in how it is being used to influence national elections. This growing threat demands our attention and preparation.
In this course, you’ll explore how AI is already shaping election campaigns worldwide. We’ll examine real examples of synthetic media created to sway voters and uncover how AI is transforming campaign strategies—through advanced data analysis, social media management, micro-targeting, and more.

Deepfakes pose significant social threats, and understanding these risks is crucial. Deepfakes can fabricate convincing disinformation by depicting real individuals saying or doing things they never did. When deepfakes deceive people, trust in media, institutions, and public figures erodes. To combat these threats, media literacy plays a vital role.
In this course, we unravel the enigma of Deepfakes—sophisticated digital fabrications that blur the line between reality and illusion. This program equips you with the essential knowledge to navigate the age of AI-generated deception.

Every time you have to stop editing to look up some technique, tool or process on YouTube, you lose your creative flow, and worse still, you look unprofessional in front of your clients. So why waste so much time when you can master FCP X in such a short time, in this broadcast-quality masterclass.

This Adobe Premier editing masterclas will take you from the absolute basics through to advanced levels, including lots of tips and tricks from inside the industry as well as a Grammar of Editing session, because editing isn't just about learning to use the software after all!

We'll go through everything from the basics such as how to approach a shoot, what shots to get, sequences, framing and composition, interviews, sound, lighting, accessories, rigs, which apps you need, how to edit, KineMaster, iMovie, Adobe Rush, Luma Fusion, live-streaming, work flow and much more.

or years, DSLR and mirrorless cameras have been the go-to choice for small digital publishers looking to produce high-quality content. However, this approach often overlooks the many production advantages smartphones offer. At the same time, there are certain things conventional cameras can do that smartphones simply can’t. The solution? Use both together. By wirelessly connecting a DSLR or mirrorless camera with a smartphone, you can create a seamless, powerful filmmaking setup that excels in any field situation. This combination allows you to take full advantage of both tools, making you an unstoppable video journalist or filmmaker, especially on location.

Video is more important than ever before. But video production takes time and money. That's why increasingly individuals and organisations are realising that creating your own, branded, professional-looking video studio is more important than ever before.
But designing a purpose-built video studio can end up being costly and taking up too much time.
Hence this Video Studio Design, Build and Run masterclass takes you through every step of creating exactly the right studio for you.

This camera training course can be adapted and re-focussed to particular cameras. It covers both semi-automatic shooting for complete beginners and moves up to full manual operation. The course balances technical and creative training, looking at framing and lighting as well as some editorial considerations that may effect how you shoot.