New York Film School?

MalcolmOng

MalcolmOng

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Anyone have any real opinions on New York Film School or any of the major film schools in America? Hows admissions like, curriculum, campus life, etc like in film schools? And also *gasp* employment prospects?

Just a few curious questions...
 
What do you want to go for, i know film but what part? Cause i have one thing stay away for the art institute school in chicago, not the one ran buy the musuem, but the chain school. They screwed me and about 50 other stendents over on the visual effects program, they cut because it was to small an not bringing in enough people and money, and so we had to go. We trie to sue them for tuition, didnt happen. left me in a good amount a debit but was only half way into my sophomore year, other kids were juniors they were really screwed it was at least 14 grand a year. If your looks at 3d stuff, green screen etc, video symphany, and gnonmon in burbank. gnonmon is onwned pixar and ILM has a hand in it too.
 
The big film universities in SOCAL and NYC have turned out some talent indeed. But there is a great deal of talent that never went to school and instead invested their money in making some movie(s) with their money, learning as they went.

Consider crewing several films, learn from their mistakes, then obtain or write some really good scripts and do a couple of shorts. Then people will notice you (or not).
 
FlintMI makes a very valid point. Take that cash and buy a HDV camera and a lighting kit and shoot the films you have written. You HAVE written some, right? If not, get the obligatory books on screenwriting and get cracking!
 
I've got two classes until I finish film school and receive my BFA from the University of Colorado at Denver. It's a great program at a relatively low price. They start you out shooting your very first semester, and every year you have from one to two projects you must complete in your emphasis ( writing/directing, cinematography, post-production, or producing ). Of course much of the beginning projects are poor, but that is how you learn and get progresively better.

I've probably worked on over fifty short projects over the past three years, and I have started working professionally lately. Due to a past program, students can take many of the same freshman and sophomore classes through Community College of Aurora which are about a third of what they are at CUD. I saved a lot of money going this route.

Though the film / video production side is very technical, there are many theory classes offered through the Film Studies program. Beyond film / video, CUD offers one of the few graduate programs in musical recording arts, and most of the people in both the undergraduate as well as graduate program are really sharp.
 
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