I'm in school right now at a community college in south florida. PBCC, my school has a film program for an associates degree thats actually pretty nice for a community college film progam.
The question is, should I be looking towards a traditional university for a degree such as USC, NYU, FSU, etc, or should I be looking towards any school that has a film degree? Does a degree really matter that much?
Full Sail, the art school has has massive recognition in film in the past two years and has a film program that is half the price of NYU or USC (72,000) and it only takes 21 months to get your bachelors in Film. Less than two years!
The only difference is it doesn't have any pre requisites you have to finish to get your degree.
So the major question, yet again is, should I be looking towards a traditional Uni or an art school, specifically Full Sail because it has the highest recognition of any of them? Does it really matter?
I just dont want to make the wrong choice when working towards anything in the motion picture entertainment industry as far as paper degrees and schools
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Full Sail has a poor reputation in the industry for precisely the
reasons you mention - there is no pre requisites to get in, they
accept anyone with the money, they are not an accredited college
or university or trade school and you do not get any kind of degree
or diploma. You simply get a certificate of completion.
I'm not sure where you get the impression that Full Sail
has massive recognition in film in the past two years. In
my experience and in speaking with and working with
hundreds of working professionals, their reputation is
not good.
Frankly a degree in film doesn't matter at all.
There are several threads about film school here - you should check
them out.
http://www.filmmaking.net/fnetforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6814
http://www.filmmaking.net/fnetforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6306
http://www.filmmaking.net/fnetforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6320
http://www.filmmaking.net/fnetforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5626
http://www.filmmaking.net/fnetforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4794
Unfortunately there isn't really an answer to you questions.
Many people who went to film school regret it, many feel it was exactly
what they needed. On the other hand I have never met a working
professional who didn't go who regrets not going.
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