Creating visually stunning editorial content has never been easier with the help of design experts Alex Reece and Isabella Bunnell. The pair are cofounders of the renowned Friendhood Studio in Scotland, and their focus is to define their client’s purpose when crafting editorial work. Dive into the editorial world and bring your own designs to life. Learn how to analyze a brief and define the visual identity of your work. Explore InDesign and discover how to create a striking editorial piece.

Learn to combine traditional techniques and digital retouching with Photoshop In this course, illustrator and artist Ana Santos will teach you the technique she uses to create her wonderful illustrated watercolor portraits, step by step. Ana enjoys the immediacy of watercolors, the spontaneity of results, and how easy it is to mix it with other materials or for mixed techniques. In this course, discover her methodology, both analog and digital, which she usually combines in her compositions. Using a photograph as the starting point, she will teach you to immortalize expressive looks, melancholic gestures, and how to add organic or imaginative motifs to enrich your design and give it an original look. This course is complementary to Experimental Watercolor Techniques for Beginners, also by Ana Santos, in which you can learn to paint with watercolors from scratch and that mistakes can sometimes be the perfect ally.

Writing allows us to express our feelings while also exploring the world around us. Words open the door to new perspectives, analogies, and metaphors. For this, there's no better guide than Afonso Cruz, winner of the European Union Prize for Literature with more than 30 books published in 20 languages. In this course, learn to tell an original story from start to finish. With the help of Afonso, develop your own piece step-by-step and explore professional narrative techniques to unlock your ideas that awaken your creativity.

Working in a globalized world means it’s vital to know the trends of the web before you make your next move. Digital strategist Ana Marín specializes in finding opportunities, trends, and cultural insights by analyzing the technology that enables human connection. She has worked on a variety of content from infomercials to music videos and is currently the digital integration and innovation vice president at McCann Worldgroup Mexico. In this course, she shares her insights on creating digital strategies that capture an audience’s attention. Create your own social media ecosystem and post content that drives sales. This is Ana’s second course with Domestika. In her first, Introduction to Community Management, she teaches you the fundamentals of fostering an active community online. This course is ideal for anyone looking to start a career in social media management.

https://watch.filmmakersacademy.com/programs/how-to-test-lenses

• 2 Lessons | 35 minutes of instructional videos | 2 Podcasts
• How to Test Lenses is an essential part of the prep process. Finding the exact emotion of your story that you are trying to tell is all about tests and seeing how your lens resolve's, how it flares, how it vignettes naturally, where is its sweet spot, how much does it distort, are the questions you will answer but only by testing and going down the rabbit hole.
• In this course, you’ll learn how to test your lens. What are all the tests that you need to perform and how these tests inform your final decision.

Lighting allows you to tell a story in a single image by capturing the mood and emotion of your subject. Relying on speedlights and light modifiers, photographer Chris Robinson is able to turn abstract feelings into images, creating portraits that focus on facial expressions and the human form. Connect with viewers emotionally by exploring flash photography and the versatility of speedlights. Take your photography skills a step further by learning off-camera lighting setups, how to work with models, and the most efficient workflow for retouching high-impact images to tell a story.

https://watch.filmmakersacademy.com/programs/music-licensing-and-selection-with-musicbed

• 5 Lessons | 1 hour of instructional videos
• Music Licensing and Selection with Musicbed is a course that shows editors how to find, place, and tailor music to perfectly fit your project.
• Editor Joaquin Elizondo guides viewers through the process of selecting music for action, comedy, and drama genres. Follow along as Joaquin demonstrates how to mark shifting tones and beats and how your musical soundtrack elevates your storytelling. 
• In this course, Joaquin turns to the music-licensing platform Musicbed for its industry-leading artists and user-friendly experience.

https://watch.filmmakersacademy.com/programs/collection-9ovd2iw3nny

Art deco is a decorative art that is still revisited in many kinds of visual arts. The style–characterized by simplified geometric shapes combined with ornate and organic elements–still appeals to a wide audience today. Illustrator Mads Berg is renowned for his contemporary art deco illustrations, merging Nordic simplicity with the iconic decorative art style. In this course, Mads Berg shows you his entire illustration process for creating a commercial poster in art deco style. Learn about the history and relevance of the art style to seamlessly fuse it into your digital illustrations. Create unique, elegant artwork that is ready to present to a client.

If you've always wanted to learn how to create stylized portraits, whether a drawing or a painting, visual artist Carol Passos will guide you along this creative journey. She is cofounder of the company Pestilento Colors for Artists and her work seeks to depict the female form with real characteristics using real bodies from reference photos. In this course, learn to paint a stylized portrait from a photograph. With Carol as your guide, discover how to apply basic painting concepts to your watercolors and drawings.

Color allows us to communicate in a more personal and emotional way. For photographer and stylist Marioly Vázquez, it’s one of the most impactful elements of a photo. She runs her own studio, which specializes in creating visual stories for brands, and has worked with companies including Adobe, Dyson, Ford, and Dior. In this course, she teaches you how to design presets in your own style and achieve a consistent aesthetic across your platforms. Discover how to edit photos using Lightroom for mobile and transform your perception of the world. This is Marioly’s second course with Domestika. In her first, Visual Storytelling for Your Personal Brand on Instagram, she gives you the tools you need to create an attractive and appealing narrative on social media.

Color and lighting are the main ingredients in the photography of Fernando Rodríguez, known internationally as The Nobody Photography, which is how he signs the countless photographs that have appeared in publications all over the world. They are techniques with which he likes to experiment in search of a solid visual identity. With a focus on beauty and fashion photography, he always finds a plot line in his editorials to help tell a story. In this online course, he teaches you to conceptualize a fashion photography production, focusing especially on the use of light and color in photography. He shows you the process to carry out an editorial, from the first steps to post-production in Photoshop.

https://watch.filmmakersacademy.com/programs/how-to-master-moonlight-greatest-game

• 3 Lessons | 30+ minutes of instructional videos
• Discover how to light moonlight and achieve that beautiful Gray-Blue tone!
• In How To Master Moonlight: Greatest Game, Shane Hurlbut, ASC uncovers the advantages versus disadvantages of 3 different tungsten sources, shows you specific gels to use, and how to set your camera’s color temperature for the ultimate effect. 
• Plus, you’ll learn the advanced usage of fresnel lights for hard shadows and explain key tips in order to make your characters stand out in total darkness.

With the ever-growing popularity of social media, trends in photography and content have come along with it, and flat lay photography is at the forefront. In this course, photographer Darren Rowlands teaches you how to combine the flat lay format with lifestyle photography to create stunning images directly from your phone. Get introduced to the world of flat lay lifestyle photography by exploring everything from composition theory, shooting with natural light, and editing in post-production. Discover how to shoot captivating images and learn how to edit them professionally without the need of expensive equipment.