Director TrainingClosed · Cohort 01

Four weeks.
One finished film.

A training inside Misu for five founding members. Learn which model does what, how to spend far less on video, and how to direct a short film from a brief.

Seats
Five
Length
Four weeks
Price
€499
Includes
One month of Studio Pro
Classes
Tuesdays, live, from 17 Nov
Screening
15 December

· The idea

Anyone can generate.
Few can direct.

The tools change fast. Each model is good at one thing, wrong at another, and priced nothing like the next. Most people find that out by spending credits.

You will find it out on a plan. Which model for which shot. How to keep one face across a whole film. How to find a shot on a cheap clip, then pay for it once.

Find the shot cheap. Pay for it once.

· Who it’s for

People who already have a point of view: art directors, designers, photographers, founders with a product. You don’t need to know the tools. You need taste and four weeks.

· The month

From brief
to final cut.

01 · Week one

Think first. Then generate.

Find one true insight about the product and build one idea from it. Test the idea in cheap stills, and give every shot its own token budget before you spend a token.

Hand in · Concept and six draft stills

02 · Week two

Lock the world. One face, every frame.

Cast a face and keep it with Character Lock. Load the product references. Learn which image model to trust for text and logos, for consistency, for edits and for hero shots.

Hand in · Style frames and a locked character or product

03 · Week three

Motion, without the burn.

Video is where credits disappear. Follow the ladder below: find each shot on a cheap model, then render only the hero shots on an expensive one.

Hand in · The animatic and your hero shots

04 · Week four

Cut it. Ship it.

Edit, sound and formats. You finish one film of 30 to 45 seconds, delivered in 9:16 and 16:9, and MacLee reads it closely, like every hand-in before it.

Hand in · The final film, 9:16 and 16:9

· The ladder

Start at the bottom.
Climb when it’s right.

Misu counts credits in tokens. A draft still costs 25. A fifteen-second hero clip costs 1,678. Six habits keep you off the expensive rung until the shot has earned it.

  1. 01Give each shot its own token budget in week one.
  2. 02Approve the still before you prompt any video.
  3. 03Animate the approved still. Skip the text-to-video guesswork.
  4. 04Find the shot on the cheap video model. Keep the expensive one for hero shots.
  5. 05Shoot three to five seconds and build length in the edit.
  6. 06Quote every paid batch before you run it. Keep a spend log.

· Tokens per generation

StillSeedream 4.5
25
StillNano Banana Pro
100
5 s clipKling 2.1
104
5 s clipSeedance 2.5, 720p
876
15 s clipSeedance 2.0
1,678

One Seedance 2.5 clip costs about as much as eight Kling clips.

Prices as listed in Misu in September. We rebuild the model guide from the live list before day one.

· The budget

Ten thousand tokens.
One film.

Every member gets one month of Studio Pro, which includes 30,000 tokens. The film is planned on about a third of that. The rest is yours to explore.

UseCountEachTokens
Draft stillsSeedream 4.540251,000
Hero stillsNano Banana Pro121001,200
Iteration clipsKling 2.1, 5 s251042,600
Hero clipsSeedance 2.0, 15 s31,6785,034
Planned9,834

Three hero clips take just over half of it. That is the lesson.

· Brief 01

One brief.
An invented brand.

The brief arrives on day one. The brand is fictional, so you are never doing spec work on someone else’s.

Brief 01Cohort 01
The brand
An invented label and its product, introduced on day one.
The ask
One film, 30 to 45 seconds, in 9:16 and 16:9.
Your job
Find the one true insight about the product. Build one idea from it. Direct it.
Budget
10,000 tokens for the film.
You get
Product references loaded in Misu, the model guide and a spend-log template.
Rules
Your own face or licensed talent only. The work stays inside Misu.

· The rhythm

Taught live.
Every film read.

  1. ClassOne live class a week, on Tuesdays from 17 November. Recorded.
  2. Q&AOne Q&A a week. Recorded.
  3. NotesWritten notes from MacLee on every hand-in.
  4. ScreeningA private screening on 15 December. The five of you, inside Misu.

· Your seat

€499.

Five seats. One payment.

It covers the four weeks, the live classes and their recordings, written notes on your film, and one month of Studio Pro with 30,000 tokens.

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Cohort 01 is a closed training for five founding members. Prices are in euros.