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Starts October · 3 sessions · $199

AI Commercials

Making brand work with AI, and the business of selling it once you can. Three sessions, half on the craft and half on how the money actually works.

Dates confirmed shortly. We'll write to you before it opens.

Meet the instructors

Alexander Vail

Creative direction · AI advertising

Builds and teaches the AI advertising curriculum this program is based on, written for people who find most advertising insufferable and would like to make the other kind.

Hafeez Saheed

Executive producer · Saatchi, McCann, Nickelodeon

Decades producing commercial work at agencies whose names you know, and teaches at SVA. He covers the half of this that most courses leave out: how the work gets scoped, priced, sold and delivered.

The three sessions

Exact dates confirmed before applications open.

Session 1

The brief and the idea

What a brand is actually buying, and how to get to an idea that survives contact with one. Where AI helps and where it gets in the way.

Session 2

Making the spot

Production for commercial work — shorter, tighter and held to a different standard than narrative. Finishing, sound, and the details that read as professional.

Session 3

Selling the work

How commercial work is priced, pitched and delivered. Scoping, rates, rights, and what a brand expects from you once they have said yes.

Who should take it

Filmmakers moving into brand work

You can make things. Commercials pay, and the craft is adjacent but not identical.

Agency and production people

You know the business already and want AI production to sit inside it properly.

Creators who want paying clients

Brand work is the shortest route from making things to being paid for making things.

Put your name down

$199 for three sessions. We will confirm October dates shortly and write to you before it opens.