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Azra3l

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I'm sorry to be sending this to everyone...

If any one knows, has worked with, and can recommend any HUGE, SCARY, PHYSICALLY INTIMIDATING ACTORS... or just anyone with a six pack... (over 5'10'') Please reply to me with any information you might have. I will be forever in debt to you and will give you a weird credit in my movie that will make you laugh when the credits roll. Once again sorry to be bother everyone.
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Good news, dudes...having a six-pack is apparently the same as being huge, scary, and physically intimidating.
 
Azra3l said:
Ok, I'll bite: why?
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A film degree is 100% worthless. Most of the students think they're going to be famous directors/producers/writers when most will wind up editing porn in the valley, lucky to make minimum wage. Even if you get a film degree, you start out at the bottom, and as nobody gives a shit about said degree you'd have been better off just skipping college and going straight to work on movie sets and getting real experience.

If you really want to get into the film industry, get a law degree.
 
While you're not wrong about many students thinking they're going to be famous, and while it is true that often times people will not care about your degree at the beginning (when, most likely, you have started at the bottom), the degree can and will open doors for you later on in your career. Mandatory internships gotten by industry-connected professors allow for students to connect, network, and begin functioning as a professional, albeit for a short time.

Sure there's something to be said for just going out and doing rather than studying, but I'm curious what you think happens in a film school? Do we just sit around and argue inane theory, or are we making films?

edit: also the experience you get in (a good) film school means you know how to do things your fellow bottom-rung'ers don't (often, but obviously not always)
 
film school schedule:

10am - wake up. do coke. listen to caribou
11am - coffee shop with beret
Noonam - talk about wes anderson at university of texas w/ friends
3pm - watch ignar berman movie. become inspired.
3:15pm - do some more coke
4pm - film a bag. in the wind. tell friends it's american beauty allegory and the most beautiful thing you've ever filmed.
 
5pm - prepare starbucks application
6:30pm - new myspace pictures
7pm - deliver starbucks application with attached myspace portraits
 
Fool said:
A film degree is 100% worthless. Most of the students think they're going to be famous directors/producers/writers when most will wind up editing porn in the valley, lucky to make minimum wage. Even if you get a film degree, you start out at the bottom, and as nobody gives a shit about said degree you'd have been better off just skipping college and going straight to work on movie sets and getting real experience.

If you really want to get into the film industry, get a law degree.
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In any field, a degree does not give you a job, it gives you the tools to advance your career. If you did nothing but sit on your ass through school, you're at square one when you get out. If, while you're in school, you do student projects, keep a portfolio of work, go to events where industry professionals make presentations and do recruiting, and generally make connections in the business, you're much better off.

It's the same no matter what you study.
 
hey infinite, how do you get the film school grad off your porch?

tip him for the pizza lolol
 
those guys that made District 9 were very recently outta film school weren't they? :shrug:

that was probably the film i enjoyed most in 09...next to Inglorious Basterds
 
Swensonator said:
In any field, a degree does not give you a job, it gives you the tools to advance your career. If you did nothing but sit on your ass through school, you're at square one when you get out. If, while you're in school, you do student projects, keep a portfolio of work, go to events where industry professionals make presentations and do recruiting, and generally make connections in the business, you're much better off.

It's the same no matter what you study.
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Most of the top people in film got there by networking, or amazing talent. Their formal education had little or nothing to do with it. If you want merely to be involved in the filmmaking process, content to be a stagehand, there's no reason to waste 4 years and a lot of money doing it.
 
Fool said:
Most of the top people in film got there by networking, or amazing talent. Their formal education had little or nothing to do with it. If you want merely to be involved in the filmmaking process, content to be a stagehand, there's no reason to waste 4 years and a lot of money doing it.
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(A) i don't recommend using an expert tone to talk about the film industry, and then cite "stagehand" as a common occupation in that same industry

(B) There's a whole logistical aspect of filmmaking that you seem content to completely overlook (UPM, Line Producer, 1st AD, etc...) that having a lot of practical experience BEFORE you begin your career path certainly helps.

(C) Starkie network helps H'wood run - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety
 
That's not always true. You can learn a lot if you go to a good school. You forget that there's more to the film industry than making blockbuster hits as well. Music videos, childrens programming, video games, news broadcasting, etc
 
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