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No. You learn a lot of important principles of filmmaking and make valuable connections. Worthwhile, yes. Necessary, no
What sort of job does the average film school grad go on doing? Surely there’s only so many spots available for directing and writing roles
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>make valuable connections.
This is the only meaningful reason to get education that's doesn't cost $1.50 in late fees from the public library. If you go to college and don't suck up to the professors or make friends you're wasting your money.
It's the same as anything. A person can write a successful book because they took creative writing and English Lit, or they can be some fricking housewife who barely graduated high school and never had a job in her life
> learn a lot of important principles of filmmakin
everything you can learn on youtube
>make valuable connections
only works if you're part of the tribe
its viral marketing
Like all schools, yes, it's mostly bullshit. You can learn literally everything a school can teach you by searching online now. The two things schools are good for: if you're moronic and unable to learn things unassisted, and the networking opportunities (because it's always 90% who you know 10% what you know).
Sounds like a fricking awesome film, it would be cool to get a lecture from a guy who made it.
creative degrees are all bullshit, so are creative careers
if you go into graphic design/animation/UI design etc you're going to have shit hours for shit money and the only way to meaningfully increase your salary is to either pivot into coding or become a college professor in your field teaching the next generation of dumbasses and perpetuating the cycle
It's all about networking. Its now if you should go to film school, its WHERE are you going to filmschool. You could learn all the information online, but it means nothing if your in a nowhere town with nobody else to bounce off of.
ITT: bad advice from college dropouts or people that never went to college
Please, enlighten us all with your wisdom, you ol mastermind ass homie.
>get a good degree
>still get mugged by a Black person
>people that
Seems like you're one of them.
I'm college educated and honestly regret doing that over getting into some kind of trade. Right now I'm working something totally unrelated to my diploma.
Shiet, the "learn to code" gays are pretty much right, and you can do that almost free of charged via online lessons or even some cheaper ones.
The guy that made the movie died in 2019 when he was 93 in his home country. Why do they still let living fossils still teach? Their inability to adjust to modern times or learn better teaching methods were one of the reasons that led me to quit
Probably because a)
It’s just shilling for the film being re-released and B) don’t know that Chris guy or if he’s even still working in the film industry or whatever but his anecdote could have taken place during the 70’s, 80’s or 90’s who knows but maybe the Czech filmmaker had a teaching job in the West at some point I’m assuming he doesn’t mean like five years ago?
I had fun, and made a steady 90k a year job as a writer through my 20s
has nuCinemaphile really never heard of Vojtěch Jasný? you Black folk need to watch more Czech New Wave
>you Black folk need to watch more Czech New Wave
no, I really don't
The Joke (1969) is so fricking kino. It stirs such a particular combination of emotions.
>t. quentin hackerino
I don’t think there’s anything taught in film school that you can’t find in any book on filmmaking.
10 years ago, yes. Now, it's harder to break into the business unless you have really good connections or nepotism (or ideally nepoboobism).
HOWEVER, it's also easier to shoot and release a movie on just about any platform with some semblance of a budget, actors and vision.
>10 years ago, yes
What I mean by that is, 10 years ago it was worth it. Didn't read your post properly.
It's more useful for actors than directors, imo. There are film-specific classes that differ from those for theatre acting.
As a film/tv actor, you need to have a speaking cameo to get into SAG. But the irony is that most beginner actors only get cast as extras in non-speaking roles. I remember reading some kind of story where a guy decided to risk it and say something while the cam was rolling, so he managed to get into SAG. But he could've also been fired right then and there.
Currently at a film school (the "big one" in America) and like people say, it's almost a hundred percent connections. That doesn't necessarily mean connections with people who have already made it, but connections with other students who will become great DPs, production designers, editors and visual effects artists and who will work on your shit when you make a short or feature.
Truth is, you won't learn anything new at these schools, at the end of the day it all comes down to just honing your craft on your own. If you come into film school not knowing how to write or direct, you're not gonna leave knowing how to do those things. The only perk of film school is that it gives you access to the tools you need to compete against others also trying to make films. And unless you're the child of a famous Hollywood producer, you're not gonna ever have access to those tools living anywhere else, sadly.
>That doesn't necessarily mean connections with people who have already made it, but connections with other students who will become great DPs, etc
It's both. Hell, I know people WITH working connections who still don't get hired for months or years at a time. And if you do get work, it's often for commercials and shit like that.
You won't be shooting some avant-garde or big budget kino. You'll be shooting doggie treats on a digital camera.
>I didn't go to film school. I went to films.
I went to film school right out of high school and unless you live in California it’s pretty much a waste of time. The best you can hope for is hope you can some temp job at your local news station and maybe you’ll get lucky and make commercials the rest of your life. Plus every film school will have some old geezer who will tell you he could’ve been the next George Lucas or Spielberg or whatever but even Zoomers will know that’s bullshit.