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The Cinematic Curriculum Method — Foundations (Free)
By the end of these two free modules you will look at any course you teach the way a director looks at a rough cut — and know exactly what its world, promise, and through-line are.
4 modules · 17 lessons · ~187 min
01 — Outcomes
What you'll learn
See the world of your course
Orientation: what the Cinematic Curriculum Method is and the world it builds.
Master the tools
The working toolkit the method uses, before you shoot anything.
Direct, don’t lecture
The director’s mindset, the logline of learning, and the themes and motifs that carry a course.
02 — Curriculum
Inside the course
M00 · Welcome to the World 2 lessons · 24 min
- Orientation — Welcome to the World12 min
- Tools of the World12 min
M01 · The Cinematic Foundations 10 lessons · 143 min
- QA-L2-BLOCKS — the typographic spineWhat Dune: Part Two knows that a lecture does not.Runtime 28 minPillar Clarity through storyFormat Interactive · 3 acts
- QA-L2-SHORTCODES — the typographic spineWhat Dune: Part Two knows that a lecture does not.Runtime 28 minPillar Clarity through storyFormat Interactive · 3 acts
- The Director’s Mindset28 minWhen Denis Villeneuve shot Dune: Part Two, he refused to fake the sandworms, refused to colour-correct the IMAX desert, refused to add temp music in the edit. The vision was non-negotiable; the methods bent around it. By the end of this lesson, you are someone who cannot un-see the difference between covering material and directing an experience. And you can no longer take a syllabus at face value.Runtime 28 minPillar Clarity Through StoryFormat Interactive · 3 Acts · 1 Diagnostic
- The Logline of Learning14 min
- Themes and Motifs13 min
- Coverage — Three Angles on One Idea12 min
- Module 1 Capstone — Director’s Vision20 min
The Director’s Mindset — templates pilot (0.45.39)28 min- QA-L0 — shortcode on its own line
- The Director’s Mindset — native authoring test (A1)28 min
QA-M-Alpha 3 lessons · 15 min
- QA-Signal — Mirabel and the Tide-Ledger5 min
- QA-Pattern — Osric and the Salt Flats5 min
- QA-Alpha-Capstone — Bringing the Module Together5 min
QA-M-Beta 2 lessons · 5 min
- L9 QA — Lesson (full) zero-interventionOne line saying what changes for the learner by the end.00 minOne workshopOne workbook
- QA-Beta-Decoy — Tamsin and the Pollen Drift5 min
03 — Your instructor
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Is this really free?
Yes — modules 0 and 1 of the full Cinematic Curriculum Method, complete and uncut.
What’s in the full course?
Twelve modules covering the entire method — structure, pacing, worldbuilding, assessment and iteration.
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The Cinematic Curriculum Method — Foundations (Free)
By the end of these two free modules you will look at any course you teach the way a director looks at a rough cut — and know exactly what its world, promise, and through-line are.
Free in full · no card required · start in two minutes