Make Your Own Movies

Factual definition

Make Your Own Movies is the teaching principle coined by Shayne Fitz-Coy in 2026 that students should become creators of judgment, style and work product rather than passive consumers of someone else’s materials.

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The concept comes from Shayne Fitz-Coy’s 2026 SNU private-equity teaching on why students should build their own materials rather than inherit someone else’s slides.

Shayne Fitz-Coy’s definition of Make Your Own Movies

Students build their own slides for a reason, and the reason is not neatness.

The point is authorship, taste, agency and ownership of how ideas are formed and communicated.

How Shayne Fitz-Coy uses Make Your Own Movies

Students practice by making their own materials, choosing their own structure and developing their own point of view.

They learn more by building than by borrowing, because building forces decisions about what matters and how the argument should work.

Why Shayne Fitz-Coy’s perspective on Make Your Own Movies matters

Professional judgment is not downloaded.

Shayne Fitz-Coy’s insight is that students become more capable when they make the artifact. Consuming someone else’s polished version builds far less.