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[porchmonkey408]

I have 9 choices...

- CSU Long Beach
- CSU Northridge
- Vanguard
- Loyola Marymount
- Chapman
- Savannah College of Art and Design
- SUNY Purchase
- University of the Arts
- Full Sail

Here is my problem:
The CSU's are merely state schools. The three after it are highly competitive. Savannah is expensive. SUNY Purchase is great but won't let me double-major. University of the Arts only studies digital filmmaking in the Film area. And websites like http://www.geocities.com/fullsailexposed/tfse-ed3.html#Anchor-Fullsai-48160 exist for Full Sail.

WHAT DO I DO!? I really want to double-major in Theatre and Film.

Then what? I don't know. Somehow break into the industry as hard as I can. I won't give up, of course.

Even so, how good is a university education in film? Maybe I should just study Theatre and take technical film workshops elsewhere. Those would be much better.

What do ya'll think I should do? And where would you recommend I go for Film? (Especially since in that area, an intensive technical education is much more effective than an Artsy education.)

 

[tzarinna]

I was going to say Savannah,I've heard some really impressive things and Savannah is such an amazing city.

So now I don't know what to tell you sorry

 

[porchmonkey408]

How unlucky of me.

Anyone know somewhere I can get a comprehensive, relatively inexpensive education in film? Like The LA Film School, where it is very technical.

Ugh.

I might just attend CSU LB or Northridge for Theatre and then go to the LA Film School.

WHAT IS A MAN TO DO!?

 

[tzarinna]

Have you checked in Fan fiction/art,some of those guys do films and they maybe able to help you better

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Not a fan of art colleges. I was an artist and even applied to art college. But with art there is absolutely no guarentee of a job, and art gives you little to fall back on.

 

[The Riddler]

i have 4 choices:
1. UCLA
2. UCSD
3. Cal
4. UCI

 

[MagicPrime]

There is nothing wrong with going to an in-state school.

 

[The Riddler]

There is nothing wrong with going to an in-state school.

i only want to stay in-state.

good thing the UC's are the best public state colleges in the nation.

 

[MagicPrime]

Thats good, I know too many people who always harp on going out of state. I've completed my 4 year and had plenty of Finacial Aid, etc. I have had to pay a little less than 5grand out of pocket my entire school carrer which is nearly unheared of now adays.

When all is said and done, what businesses look for is what you can do - not where you learned to do it. If you want to get into film you get your ass out there and make a movie to the best of your ability. Show it around town - mail it to producers and studios. If you got the goods - they will bite. I have a B.S. in Computer Graphic Technologies. And as soon as my full copy of Maya gets here im going to work myself to death to make the most kickass film i can make and send it out across the globe.

 

[Sandman138]

Thats good, I know too many people who always harp on going out of state. I've completed my 4 year and had plenty of Finacial Aid, etc. I have had to pay a little less than 5grand out of pocket my entire school carrer which is nearly unheared of now adays.

When all is said and done, what businesses look for is what you can do - not where you learned to do it. If you want to get into film you get your ass out there and make a movie to the best of your ability. Show it around town - mail it to producers and studios. If you got the goods - they will bite. I have a B.S. in Computer Graphic Technologies. And as soon as my full copy of Maya gets here im going to work myself to death to make the most kickass film i can make and send it out across the globe.

Problem is, film school isn't for the education; it's for the contacts. You make a film at one of the known filmschools, and you tend to have a better chance at getting it shown around to the right people. If you don't have the contacts, they won't look at you without an agent, and most agents won't look at you without a good festival movie. It's an incredibly tough buisness to break into, at least if you want to direct.

That said, I would either go with SVA or Loyola. I've seen some really good work come out of SVA, and my old teacher who went their got contacts with Harvey Kietel out of it/ Loyola has one of the best and most well rounded film programs I've seen, and they have an incredible intern program. Chapman has an incredible technical program, I can vouch for one of it's old professors who in turn vouches for the school, and both graduates I've met from there have produced amazing work. However, it's in OC and personally, I can't imagine spending my college years in that kind of a town.

 

[RogueLDN]

which do you want to go to? Which has the best social side?

 

[Sandman138]

I go to Hampshire college in Mass.