Exclusively for our Supporting Members, this is the second part of our 1.5 hour interview with award-winning filmmaker Tal Lazar, who teaches cinematography at Columbia University and the City College of New York.
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When it comes to the creative portion of your application, it's important to understand that technical proficiency is probably not what the admissions committee is really considering. Much of the time, applicants mask their storytelling inadequacies with technical proficiency. I could look at an application and see a beautifully lit scene, but I also know that when you have a great gaffer, that gaffer will make the images look really good. And when you have a great cinematographer, that cinematographer will make the director look really good...
FilmSchool.org is 100% advertisement free so without our Supporting Members, in-depth articles and interviews like this one would not be possible. Supporting Members also enjoy access to private student clubs and forums, our database that tracks upwards of 4,000 film school applications, and the full Acceptance Data statistics for each film program (such as AFI Screenwriting) that helps demystify common questions about how to construct a winning portfolio, ideal GPAs and GRE scores, and much more.
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Tal Lazar (AFI Cinematography MFA‘09) on Choosing the Right Film School and the Beauty of Not Knowing (Part 1)
Tal Lazar is an award-winning cinematographer, producer, and educator who has studied and taught at some of the most prolific film schools worlwide, most notably the American Film Institute Conservatory (AFI) and Columbia University's School of the Arts. His films (The Unborn, Every Time I Die...
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