AI Video — Stage 1 (Creation) — Ascent Learn

What you'll learn

Take an idea to a published video without a camera, a studio or a crew
Generate from text and from images, and say which route a given shot needs
Script, voice and cast an avatar so a piece holds together as one voice
Edit, caption and format to each platform's requirements, not one export for all
Publish knowing your cost per video, not just that it was cheap

Week by week

Every week, what you can do by the end of it.

1AI video fundamentals + the creator economy
How AI video works; the money paths (faceless YouTube, TikTok, UGC, SME content)
2AI image & prompting for video
Midjourney / nano-banana / Ideogram
3Text-to-video & image-to-video
Runway / Pika / Kling
4Scriptwriting + voiceovers + avatars
ChatGPT/Claude scripts

What you'll build

You leave with work you can show, not only a certificate.

P1 (Stage 1): a published 30–60s AI video

Tools you'll use

Runway
Pika
Kling
Luma
Veo
Sora
HeyGen
Synthesia
Captions
ElevenLabs
PlayHT
Midjourney
nano-banana
Ideogram
Flux
ChatGPT/Claude
CapCut
Descript
Suno
Make
Zapier
n8n
Airtable
APIs

Afterwards

From income-ready creator (Stage 1) to automation engineer / agency owner / SaaS founder (Stage 3) — a strong freelance/remote and entrepreneurial pathway for the African market

AI Video — Stage 1 (Creation)