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The Credits-First Method™ · Free live masterclass

Finally finish the book, film, or product you keep putting off.

Start with the finished product. Work backward to make it real.

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Maria Bleahu, smiling Hosted by Maria Bleahu
filmmaker, educator & author of 22 books
Books·Films·Products·Websites·Animation
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Maria Bleahu
Roll credits

Every film ends with credits — the proof it got made.

For almost 20 years, I've taught more than 2,000 students, ages 6 to 65, by showing them the finished product first, then building backward. Middle schoolers went from zero to producing their own TV shows. College students walked out of the NAB Show with job offers.

Then I used the same method on my own ideas, and published 22 books in two years.

Now I'm bringing it to creatives with an idea that hasn't become real yet: a book, a film, a product, a website.

How the method works

SCENE 01

See the finish line

Start with the finished product: what it looks like, who it's for, and what "done" really means.

SCENE 02

Work backward

Map the steps from the end result back to today, so every task has a clear reason to exist.

SCENE 03

Roll your credits

Build it, finish it, and put it out into the world, with your name in the credits.

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The free live masterclass walks you through all three scenes with your own idea.

From her students

I've learned more in one semester with you than I did with an entire 4-year bachelor's degree at Akron State University.

Thomas, college student

I've learned more about the camera and its functions in one day with you than I did in the last 2 years with the previous teacher.

James, middle school student
22
books published in two years
2,000+
students taught, ages 6 to 65
500+
students in one middle school video program she built — bigger than the band
8 of 8
students she took to the NAB Show got job offers

Your idea deserves an ending.

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