Watch the first lesson
What the tool is doing when you press generate
Every subject in this course opens with a short explainer like this one. It stops once to ask you a question. The rest of the lesson is practice.
Before you start
Google Flow is for people aged 18 and over, with an age-verified Google account. If you are under 18, start with one of the other three courses, and check each tool's own age rule before you sign up for it.
What you finish holding
Your own finished short film — written, generated, voiced, cut and published, with a title and your name on it — plus the prompt and shot sheets that made it, so planning the second one takes a day instead of a week.
The seven modules
Taken at your own pace, on your phone. Nothing closes, so a busy week costs you nothing.
- What this actually is, and what it cannot do yet
- The idea, and the shot list that can be produced
- The prompt as a camera instruction
- Keeping the same person and the same place
- Voice, dialogue and sound
- The cut
- Publish it, then sell the next one
Free from start to finish
The course is built on what is free to reach from Nigeria. Google Flow is the spine because its free tier can be used from a Nigerian account on a phone browser, and every module is designed to fit inside free generation limits by planning before generating rather than generating to see.
When paying becomes worth it
Paying buys generation volume and higher resolution, and it is worth it when a paying client is waiting — not while you are learning. Module seven costs a worked example of a client job both ways, so you can see when the subscription comes out of the client’s money instead of yours.
What it leads to
Generated video is bought in Nigeria today by brands that cannot afford a crew, by creators who need volume, and by anybody who needs an advert by Friday.
- Adverts and promos for small brands. A 15 to 30 second generated advert, scripted and cut. Commonly ₦20,000 to ₦150,000 a piece depending on the client, against a filmed shoot that starts far higher.
- Content volume for creators and pages. Faceless channels, explainer content and story reels. Paid per piece or on a monthly retainer; the course covers what a retainer should cost you in hours.
- Your own channel. The real thresholds are taught plainly: YouTube needs 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours in 12 months, or 10 million Shorts views in 90 days, before it pays anything. The course is honest that this route is slow and the client route is not.
- Pitch material for film and television. Animated pitch decks, mood films and previsualised scenes — the cheapest way to sell an idea that does not exist yet, and a side of the industry that did not exist before this.
Offered free, to anyone in Nigeria, by the Capacity Development Training Initiative in collaboration with the City Boy Movement.
How to join
Registration is open
Enroll and the training appears on your learning page straight away.
You will be asked to open a light account first, or to sign in if you already have one.