How Movies Are Made
Like Duolingo, but for How Movies Are Made. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo turns How Movies Are Made into a game you actually finish. Levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that make it stick. Five minutes a day.
Where How Movies Are Made takes you
Go behind the scenes to see how your favorite films move from a simple idea to the big screen. Learn about the magic of cameras, lighting, and the team that makes it all happen.
- 1
Starting with an Idea
- Writing the Story
- Drawing the Scenes
- Finding the Money
- Picking the Actors
- 2
The People on Set
- The Director's Job
- Working the Camera
- Setting the Lights
- Recording Clear Sound
- Costumes and Makeup
- Building the Backgrounds
- 3
Putting It All Together
- Cutting the Best Clips
- Adding Music and Noise
- Fixing the Colors
- 4
The Final Touches
- Creating Digital Effects
- Making the Movie Poster
- Showing it in Theaters
- How Awards Work
- Watching at Home
4 sections · 18 units · 54 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If a screenwriter is drafting a script for a film crew, what is the primary purpose of their document?
Get it right to open this lesson and 53 more in the app.
You pick the voice
How Movies Are Made is taught in the The Storyteller style: every lesson is a story. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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