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48 Hour Film is a step-by-step filmmaking system designed for first-timers with no gear, no experience, and no time. If you've ever wanted to direct your own film but felt overwhelmed, this is the shortcut.

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DIRECT POWERFUL FILMS

In 48 Hours on NO BUDGET

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48 Hour Film is a step-by-step filmmaking system designed for first-timers with no gear, no experience, and no time. If you've ever wanted to direct your own film but felt overwhelmed, this is the shortcut.

Film School - $100,000 48 Hour Film - $499

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By Sunday night, you’ll have:

  • a locked script (short + shootable)

  • footage captured

  • a rough cut exported

  • and a “polish checklist” to finish

Most filmmaking courses teach skills and gear. This is a completion sprint designed to get first-timers to a finished cut fast—using constraints, templates, and a weekend plan.

No Experience Needed!

Here's What You Will Do:

MINDSET:

Think like a director

  • Simple habits that help first-time directors finish what they start

  • How successful directors used phones to make movies

  • How you can gain inspiration and learn from movies

  • Simple habits that help first-time directors finish what they start

  • How successful directors used phones to make movies

  • How you can gain inspiration and learn from movies

Step 1:

The Framework

  • What makes a short film actually feel cinematic?

  • How to turn a random idea into a film people remember.

  • The secret formula behind every great story (GLUE SCORE).

  • How to create a twist that audiences never see coming.

  • A 9-step checklist to make sure your script hooks and delivers.

  • What makes a short film actually feel cinematic?

  • How to turn a random idea into a film people remember.

  • The secret formula behind every great story (GLUE SCORE).

  • How to create a twist that audiences never see coming.

  • A 9-step checklist to make sure your script hooks and delivers.

STEP 2:

Cast + Locations + Phone Gear

  • How to turn your friends into actors

  • How to pitch your idea to recruit crew members

  • Optional Gear Upgrades

  • How to get cinematic shots with free resources you have access to

  • How to turn your friends into actors

  • How to pitch your idea to recruit crew members

  • Clever ways to borrow pro gear (even if you don’t own a camera)

  • How to get cinematic shots with free resources you have access to

  • Cheap upgrades if you want them

STEP 3:

Write Your Script

  • Break through writer’s block

  • Nail your film's entire concept in one powerful sentence

  • Instantly spot weak stories before writing a single page

  • Cut cheesy dialogue for good

  • Tie your ideas into one clear story

  • Learn the formula Hollywood uses

  • Master pro formatting for free

  • Finish your script fast without sacrificing quality

  • Break through writer’s block

  • Nail your film's entire concept in one powerful sentence

  • Instantly spot weak stories before writing a single page

  • Cut cheesy dialogue for good

  • Tie your ideas into one clear story

  • Learn the formula Hollywood uses

  • Master pro formatting for free

  • Finish your script fast without sacrificing quality

STEP 4:

Script Breakdown

  • Color code your script using the industry standard system

  • Use The Breakdown Template for easy organization and coordination

  • Never forget to bring anything to set

  • Color code your script using the industry standard system

  • Use The Breakdown Template for easy organization and coordination

  • Never forget to bring anything to set

STEP 5:

Storyboard

  • Learn how to visualize your film before shooting

  • Learn camera movements and how to easily illustrate them in the storyboard

  • Learn Standard Coverage to work extremely fast

  • Learn how to visualize your film before shooting

  • Learn camera movements and how to easily illustrate them in the storyboard

  • Learn Standard Coverage to work extremely fast

STEP 6:

Shotlist

  • Watch our Shot list Template walkthrough

  • Turn your storyboard into a shot list to use on set

  • 10x Your Confidence as a Director

  • Watch our Shot list Template walkthrough

  • Turn your storyboard into a shot list to use on set

  • 10x Your Confidence as a Director

STEP 7:

Production

  • Block your scene

  • Setup simple cinematic lighting

  • Learn how to record crisp audio

  • Prepare your phone for shooting with free cinematic camera apps

  • Shoot your film!

  • Block your scene

  • Setup simple cinematic lighting

  • Learn how to record crisp audio

  • Prepare any camera for shooting with our Universal Camera Settings Guide

  • Shoot your film!

STEP 8:

Directing Actors

  • Direct non-actors into delivering powerful performances

  • Learn to direct for the edit using the Kuleshov Effect

  • Get our Directing Actors cheat sheet to take with you on set

  • Direct non-actors into delivering powerful performances

  • Learn to direct for the edit using the Kuleshov Effect

  • Get our Directing Actors cheat sheet to take with you on set

STEP 9:

Editing

  • Learn the principles that guide great editing

  • Download our Folder Structure to stay organized

  • Learn to edit in DaVinci Resolve, a FREE industry standard software

  • Edit your film in 3 stages: The Rough, Fine, and Final Cut

  • Learn the principles that guide great editing

  • Download our Folder Structure to stay organized

  • Learn to edit in DaVinci Resolve, a FREE industry standard software

  • Edit your film in 3 stages: The Rough, Fine, and Final Cut

STEP 10:

Color Grading

  • Learn simple Color Correction your film to achieve balanced colors

  • Learn to Color Grade a unique look for your film

  • Learn simple Color Correction your film to achieve balanced colors

  • Learn to Color Grade a unique look for your film

STEP 11:

Sound Design

  • Learn the fundamental sound design principles

  • Edit clean dialogue

  • Layer in tons of FREE sound effects

  • Add a fitting score

  • Completely immerse your audience using the power of sound

  • Learn the fundamental sound design principles

  • Edit clean dialogue

  • Layer in tons of FREE sound effects

  • Add a fitting score

  • Completely immerse your audience using the power of sound

STEP 12:

Export Settings

  • Use our Project Template to export your film with the best settings in Resolve

  • Use our Project Template to export your film with the best settings in Resolve

STEP 13:

Screen Your Film

  • Learn how to submit your film to festivals to get your work seen on the big screen

  • How Festivals create new connections with other filmmakers

  • Next steps to bigger and better films

  • Learn how to submit your film to festivals to get your work seen on the big screen

  • How Festivals create new connections with other filmmakers

  • Next steps to bigger and better films

BONUS:

How hollywood movies are written

  • Break down a scene from Interstellar step-by-step so you can copy the same pattern of escalating problems, bigger consequences, and a final payoff in your own short film.

  • Break down a scene from Interstellar step-by-step so you can copy the same pattern of escalating problems, bigger consequences, and a final payoff in your own short film.

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The Filmmakers’ Circle

Connect with hundreds of filmmakers, pitch your ideas, and get personalized reviews inside our private community.

The Director’s Checklist

What Every First-Time Director Wishes They Had. A step-by-step workbook so that you can follow along and keep track of each task that must be completed to finish your film.

Blockbuster Templates

The ultimate toolbox for filmmakers. Download our custom templates designed to organize and expedite the entire process. So you don't waste precious time!

Apprentice Cheat Sheets

Quick guides to 10x your workflow and recall information without rewatching tutorials over and over again.

48 Hour Film Festival

Exclusive 48 Hour Film Festival. Submit your film, win epic prizes, and get your film seen by our community and guest judges. The stage is yours.

Bonus Pack: Festival Insider

Finding the right festivals for your film and craft winning submissions. Insider tips, deadlines, and strategies to get your film seen.

Free Software Starter Pack

The Free Tools Behind Award-Winning Shorts. We show you how to use the best free software available. So that you can make your film without spending a dime.

DaVinci Speed Edit Toolkit

Cut time. Not corners. DaVinci Resolve presets to ensure crisp exports. (With transitions + effects on the way!)

Filmmaker's Discount Club

Insider Deals for Aspiring Directors. Discounts on filmmaking assets and resources from our partners.

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Get automatic access to all new lessons, templates, and tools we add to the course. Stay sharp with the latest strategies.

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What Some Of Our 5,000+ Students are Saying

Who This IS For...

  • You’ve always wanted to make a movie, but you keep not finishing

  • You might have made a short film in the past but were disappointed at the quality and poor storytelling

  • You don’t have “real gear,” a crew, or film school training

  • You want a clear plan that tells you exactly what to do Friday/Saturday/Sunday

  • You want a film you're proud of that you can use as a calling card/portfolio piece (and optionally submit to festivals)

Who This is NOT For...

  • You want a theory-heavy film class or a gear deep-dive

  • You’re not willing to shoot something simple for your first short film (1–2 locations, minimal cast)

  • You want to watch movies, not make them

Turn Your Phone into a Cinema Camera

(All shot in the SAME LOCATION, with the SAME PHONE, with the SAME ACTORS.) 👇

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THE 3 WAYS TO LEARN FILMMAKING

(and why 2 of them will DESTROY your dreams)

OPTION #1

FILM SCHOOL

The $100k Money Pit

Film schools love selling you the "Hollywood Dream" for the low, low price of crippling debt. We couldn't afford the fancy $100k schools, so we settled for "cheaper" university programs that STILL cost us $10,000 each!

The brutal truth? 90% of classes were film theory BS that won't help you shoot a single frame. While professors lectured about the "male gaze in French New Wave Cinema", we learned more making crappy films in our dorm rooms.

Result: $20,000 poorer, zero practical skills, and classmates who talk about Kubrick but can't operate a camera.

OPTION #2

DIY

YouTube University

The Endless Rabbit Hole of Confusion

This is the path we took after film school failed us—countless hours watching random YouTube tutorials, making film after film, and learning through painful trial and error.

Here's what they don't tell you.

Every Youtuber teaches something different. One says "shoot in 4K", another says "resolution doesn't matter." You'll spend YEARS figuring out what actually works. Progress was painfully slow, and every tiny improvement felt like we were climbing Mount Everest in flip-flops.

Looking back, we'd rather eat glass than do it this way again.

OPTION #3

48 HOUR FILM

The "Cheat Code" We Wish We Had 10 Years Ago

The only online filmmaking course that walks you through making a complete, cinematic short film from scratch, even if you've never touched a camera.

Here's the crazy part: Our 9-step GLUE SCORE Framework is literally everything we learned from our $10,000 "education" and 10 years of trial-and-error... compressed into ONE weekend.

NO theory BS. NO confusing contradictions. NO wasted years.

Just a proven, repeatable formula that guarantees your films grab attention and keep viewers glued to the screen.

The choice is yours: Wasted years and thousands like we did, or skip the pain and start creating award-winning film THIS WEEKEND.

Meet Your Instructors

👇 cool pic of us winning a bunch of awards 😏

We’re Tyson & Jordan — basically two guys who really thought dropping $20,000 on film school would magically turn us into the next Spielberg.

Yeah… it didn’t.

Tyson - I spent months making my “masterpiece” short film using everything I learned, a ton of expensive gear and equipment, and when it was finally done?

It sucked.

I was devastated. I knew from the start that the story had issues but I thought I could fix them with my incredible directing and editing skills (sarcasm).

But the harsh reality was that a bad story can't be fixed no matter the budget, the amazing performances from the actors, or the seamless edits, everything comes down to story.

So I decided on a totally different approach: what if I made short films with literally no budget in one weekend only focusing on the story.

As you can probably guess, those broke little weekend films hit way harder than our expensive film school projects because the story actually drew you in.

That’s when everything changed.

Suddenly our films were winning at film festivals and we knew that this process and system that we had created for writing would be extremely beneficial to every filmmaker.

So we decided to create this course to teach people the same system and help filmmakers write their first script in less than in hour.

Since then we've helped over 5,000 people.

  • cool pic of us winning a bunch of awards 😏

Watch Our Film That Won at Multiple Film Festivals

(We wrote, shot, and directed this in one weekend on NO BUDGET)

If you struggle to come up with ideas, keep your story moving, are tempted to leave every script on a cliffhanger, then this course is for you.

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If you complete the weekend plan and submit your rough cut within 30 days, but still aren't satisfied, you get a full refund.

Worst Case: You walk away with a finished film and get your money back.

Best Case: You make an awesome short film that you can use to submit to festivals, meet & network with other filmmakers, and potentially land paid jobs.

At a 97% satisfaction rating, we are confident you WILL love it!

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FAQ

What is Filmmaker's Apprentice?

Filmmaker's Apprentice is a premium online filmmaking platform that aims to educate the next generation of filmmakers through experience based courses . We accelerate your filmmaking journey at a fraction of the cost and time associated with traditional film school and YouTube.

Where can I watch?

With Filmmaker's Apprentice, you can learn anytime, anywhere, with your smartphone or personal computer. You can even download our free webapp for a better mobile experience.

What filmmaking topics does Filmmaker's Apprentice provide?

Filmmaker’s Apprentice skips the long, boring theory and gives you a fast, step-by-step system to go from idea → script → shoot → edit in just 48 hours (even as a total beginner).

You’ll learn story + script basics, what gear to use (even just your phone), how to shoot on $0, and how to put it all together into a finished short film—using the same 9-step process we used to land paid directing work.

Can I get a refund?

Better Than an Oscar Guarantee:

If you complete the weekend plan and submit your rough cut within 30 days, but still aren't satisfied, you get a full refund.

Worst Case: You walk away with a finished film and get your money back.

Best Case: You make an awesome short film that you can use to submit to festivals, meet & network with other filmmakers, and potentially land paid jobs.

At a 97% satisfaction rating, we are confident you WILL love it!

Can't I learn all of this on Youtube?

YouTube is a fantastic resource with more free tutorials than any individual is capable of watching on improving your film skills. A side effect of only learning on YouTube is that you'll waste dozens of hours learning the same thing, searching for tutorials only to find partial answers and not having precise exercises designed to help you truly learn the skills you're after.

If you want to develop your skills FAST, then 48 Hour Film is for you. 

Just decide what is your time worth? This program will save you weeks of frustrated time searching for answers and rapidly increase your narrative filmmaking skills. For some - that's $ well spent! If your time isn't worth that yet... Stick to YouTube until it is!

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