Built into the 12-month and 24-month programs.
OTT has overtaken cinema in India — 2026
OTT Filmmaking — Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hotstar production workflows
India's OTT market exceeded theatrical box office for the first time in 2024. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ Hotstar, and SonyLiv are collectively spending over ₹8,000 crore annually on Indian content — but cannot find enough trained directors, DOPs, and editors who understand streaming-specific production workflows. OTT filmmaking requires different visual grammar, pacing, multi-episode structure, and technical delivery than traditional Bollywood or TV production.
Morph Academy's Filmmaking course includes dedicated OTT production modules — covering Netflix IMF package delivery, Amazon Prime ProRes/R3D workflow, streaming-optimized colour grading in DaVinci Resolve, episode-level story structure, and the production management systems used by Indian OTT teams. Students produce a short OTT-format drama or documentary as their capstone project — exactly the format Indian streaming platforms are looking to acquire from independent filmmakers.
OTT Visual Grammar
Netflix IMF Delivery
Streaming Colour Grade
Multi-episode Structure
LED Wall + Unreal Engine 5 — no other film school in Chandigarh has this lab
Virtual Production with Unreal Engine 5 — the technology behind India's biggest OTT productions
Virtual Production using LED Volume stages — where actors perform in front of real-time Unreal Engine 5 environments — is being adopted by Netflix India, Amazon Prime Video, and major Bollywood productions as the replacement for traditional green screen. LED Volume stages are now operational in Mumbai and Hyderabad, but the directors, DOPs, and production designers who can operate this technology are in acute shortage across the industry.
Morph Academy's 12-month and 24-month programs include dedicated Virtual Production training — covering Unreal Engine 5 real-time environment creation, camera tracking synchronization with Unreal, MetaHuman integration on the LED Wall, the director's workflow for virtual production sets, and the lighting principles that differ fundamentally from traditional studio or location shooting. This is the single highest-value skill combination available to any filmmaking student in Chandigarh today.
Unreal Engine 5
LED Volume Stage
Camera Tracking
MetaHuman
DGCA licensing — only legal drone cinematography training in Chandigarh
Drone UAV Cinematography with DGCA Commercial Licensing — aerial film skills employers are urgently hiring
Every major Indian music video, wedding film, real estate project, documentary, and OTT series now includes drone aerial footage. But India's DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) mandates that commercial drone operators hold a valid RPAS Remote Pilot Certificate. Most film institutes teach drone theory — none in Chandigarh train students to DGCA commercial licensing standard while simultaneously teaching it as a cinematographic tool rather than just a technical skill.
Morph Academy's Drone UAV module covers DJI Mavic 3 Cinema and FPV drone operation, DGCA RPAS licence preparation and exam, aerial framing for film and music video, gimbal control for cinematic stabilisation, fly-by and orbit techniques, regulatory compliance for commercial shoots, and the post-processing pipeline for 4K and 5.1K aerial footage in DaVinci Resolve. Students graduate with a DGCA licence — a qualification that unlocks commercial drone cinematography work immediately after completing the program.
DGCA RPAS Licence
DJI Mavic 3 Cinema
Aerial Cinematography
FPV Drone
AI is transforming film pre-production in 2026
AI-Assisted Filmmaking — Runway ML, Sora, and AI pre-production tools for directors
AI video generation tools are being adopted by Hollywood and Bollywood productions at rapid pace for pre-production visualization, B-roll generation, and post-production augmentation. Runway ML Gen-3 Alpha allows directors to generate visual references, test shot compositions, and create placeholder footage that communicates their vision to production teams without expensive location scouts or crew. OpenAI Sora can generate entire scene environments from text prompts for pre-visualization. ElevenLabs AI voice generation is being used for dialogue prototyping before actor recordings.
Morph Academy's Advanced Diploma includes an AI-Assisted Filmmaking module — covering Runway ML for AI B-roll and scene generation, Sora for pre-visualization, Pika Labs for AI storyboard animation, ElevenLabs for dialogue prototyping, AI script analysis tools (Plot Factory, ScriptBook), and the legal and copyright frameworks for AI-generated content in commercial film productions. Directors who understand both traditional filmmaking craft and AI augmentation tools are the most sought-after filmmakers in the Indian industry in 2026.
Runway ML Gen-3
Sora Pre-viz
AI Storyboarding
ElevenLabs Audio
