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Originally Posted by jjacob
Nice, perhaps UF even allows you to flow through to FSU (not the right term here but you know what I mean) for the second or third year, atleast that's a possiblity here I think. I've applied to NFTA (Dutch Film and Television Academy) here in Amsterdam - they have a splendid reputation in Netherlands and even Europe as a whole. I could've applied to Utrecht's Film Academy but they only have general 4 year programs as opposed to the more specialized 4 year program I'm hoping to get in (where there are separate majors such as directing fiction or documentary, editing, sound, visual effects, screenwriting etc. as opposed to one big whallop filled with training I won't be needing at Utrecht). I could've applied to a school in the far south of NL, but thesame goes for that, no specialised schooling. Anyway the NFTA is horribly selective as well, only 72 students get in for *all* majors (for example only 6 for directing fiction and 6 for directing documentary). I'm still awaiting word if I got through to the next round (where you get an interview with a commision) - if they liked my material (did the editing for a short and wrote a screenplay) I might get through, and here's hoping. Still, if they turn me down I'll just try again next year and write/direct/edit films in the meantime so I'll have more material next time around. My mind is set though - NFTA, NFTA, NFTA (all the way, yay!  ). Did you have to give your own material with your application as well? And what do you want to major in?
PS. What/which film school(s) has/have the best rep. in the US? |
Sorry, just found this post. The thing is that I wasn't ever in much of a position to have my own material, because I've neither been to a school with film classes nore do I have money to get equipment to make my own. At that, the film school I applied to specifically requests applicants to
not send tapes and screenplays and what-not. I'm not exactly sure why, but they rather we just tell them what all experience we have with art/film. I figure the main reason I didn't get in was precisely because of the fact that at this point I haven't been able to really do any fo this stuff first-hand.
But I consider the education I have received (that is, watching a lot of movies from various schools and countries and directors, and absorbing as much as I can from them) to be more important this early on than the technical aspects of it, which would be why I'd go to film school. But of course, it's hard to tell that to a film school (on the resume simply putting "I've seen a buttload of movies" doesn't mean a whole lot).
The school I will be going to, since it's not a "film school" and isn't selective about who can learn under them, might serve as just what I need to start learning this stuff (filming, editing, photographing, etc) in which case it could just be a late-bloom and I could get into a real film school later on. But what's nice about it is that it's very open-ended to the point where the
senior thesis can be either a short film, an essay, or a screenplay, so if it turns out I feel more comfortable with writing about films (certainly possible) then I can go that route.
In America the big film schools are in California and New York...University of California in Los Angeles, University of Southern California, the American Film Institute, and New York University, mainly. The film school at FSU is up there though nowadays. As well as Texas, oddly enough.
