Eight lessons · Watch, learn, do

The Course

This is a self-paced video course. Watch on your phone, your laptop, wherever you are. No live sessions, no waiting for anyone else.

Eight lessons. Over three hours of teaching. Plus downloadable slides for every lesson - yours to keep and revisit whenever you want.

Lesson One

How to tell your story

Before you pick up the phone, you need a story. Not an idea - a story.

I'll show you the real process - not the textbook version - of how to take an everyday moment and turn it into something that holds people. Using my own bike ride from home to Big Ben, I'll walk you through how I found a narrative arc inside a simple journey and turned it into something unexpected: a story of adventure, pressure and self-discovery.

These are the ideas that will teach you to find a compelling story in even the most ordinary moments of your life.

Lesson Two

The secrets of your phone camera

The most powerful film camera you'll ever own has been sitting in your pocket this whole time. You just didn't know it yet.

Because here's the thing - in its default state, every time you press record, it's making decisions on your behalf - doing things you can't see and can't control. And that gap between what your phone is capable of and what it's actually doing? That's the difference between footage that looks like a home video and footage that looks like cinema.

In this lesson I'll show you how to close that gap. I'll introduce you to a free app that pulls back the curtain on exactly what your camera is doing - and hands the controls to you. The same controls a professional cinematographer uses. On the phone already in your pocket.

The moment you unlock its potential, you will never look at your phone the same way again.

Lesson Three

The recipe for filming the perfect sequence

Now that you understand your camera, it's time to think like a director.

Great filmmaking isn't random. Every sequence you see in a documentary - every scene that feels seamless, alive and real - was built from a specific set of shots, filmed with intention, assembled with purpose. In this lesson I give you the recipe.

Using my own roscón de Reyes - filmed entirely on my phone in my kitchen - I'll show you exactly which shots you need to film any sequence in the world. The shot that tells your audience who you are and where you are. The shots that capture what you're doing. The movements and sizes that give your edit its 'visual grammar'. And the cutaways that let you stitch it all together invisibly, so the final result flows like a real film rather than a random collection of clips.

By the end of this lesson you'll never film aimlessly again. You'll walk into any situation - your kitchen, your garden, your local market - knowing exactly what you need to capture and why. So that when you get to the edit, everything you need is already there.

Lesson Four

Elevate your filming with my mentor

You know how to create a sequence. Now we're going to make it beautiful.

I'm joined by my mentor Luke Finn - a cinematographer with over 40 years at the BBC - and together we're taking you to Buckingham Palace to show you what your phone can do that even the most expensive professional cameras can't.

Because here's something most people don't realise: the phone's greatest technical limitation is also its greatest creative superpower. It's light. Extraordinarily light. And that changes everything - because suddenly you can move in ways no heavy camera ever could. Low angles, fluid tracking shots, movements that feel alive and spontaneous and cinematic in a way that takes years to achieve with traditional equipment.

In this lesson we take everything you've learned about filming sequences and elevate it into something else entirely. Not just footage that's editable - footage that's artful. Shots that don't just tell your story but make it beautiful. Moments that use everything your phone is capable of to create something that genuinely moves people.

This is where technique becomes art. And your phone is the perfect instrument to get you there.

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Lessons Five-Eight

Editing a puppy love story

You have your footage. Now comes the part where your film truly comes together.

In these lessons, I'm not just showing you which buttons to press - I'm teaching you to think like a director and an editor.

Editing is where your story stops being a collection of clips and becomes something that moves people.

But it's also the part that intimidates most people - because suddenly there's software to learn, decisions to make, and no clear sense of where to begin.

I've made that part simple. Step by step, anyone can do this.

First I'll teach you how to come up with a paper edit that gives your film its spine before you even open the software.
Then I teach you how to use the software to make your first rough cut - where you bring that spine to life.
And then we’ll elevate it the way professionals do - shaping rhythm, emotion and story as you go.

Because when you learn to edit the way a director thinks rather than the way a software manual teaches, something extraordinary happens.

The first time you watch back the first minute of your own film - with the shots you chose, the cuts you made, the music underneath it - you will watch it fifty times. You won't be able to stop.

You won't be able to believe that you made something that makes you feel that way.

That feeling is what we're building towards. And it's closer than you think.

Bonus Lessons

I'll be adding new modules over time, because I want this to become a skill you nurture for life. For example...

How to make video content for social media to grow your business
And more to follow soon

Your first finished film

By the end of lesson eight, you'll have everything you need to make your first five-minute film. Something finished. Something you're proud of. Something ready to go out into the world.

When your film is done, send it to me. I watch every single one - and I write back to you personally with what I see. I want us to share the joy of your achievement together.

Why this matters

My hope for you is bigger than just making a film. I hope this course changes the way you notice the world around you. That you start recognising stories in ordinary moments. That you become more present to the people, places and passions you already love. And that making your film gives you the confidence to keep creating long after these eight lessons are over.