Film School VS College Courses

[wdy]

Hey...its my last year of High School and my dad is getting my to try and find where i'd like to go next year. Money is a big issue cause its not cheap. I was looking at VFS Vancouver Film School.. now its $26,000 for one year apose to I could use that money to goto college for a few years to take some film courses. What should I take the jump at..and what's the difference from Film School and College, I want what would be best to persue a career in filmmaking.

 

[ktabes]

i cant really answer your questions, but i heard bad things about vfs, and other schools like it such as nyfa, and full sail. theres a couple of websites that post reviews for school, and former students post whats good about it and whats bad.

 

[Retrospan]

Go to a Jr college and take non-film classes. In the meantime, make a billion movies in the off hours and learn on your own without having to work with slacker film students who get on power trips and bring the whole production down.

Then you'll know both movies and, um, abnormal psychology and, uh, mural painting...skills that perhaps film students may not have known, giving you an extra edge in screen writing and set design as well as good directing.

Time is money so I guess money is more important than the rotation of the Earth around the sun and by that standard, $26 a unit vs $26,000 for possibly getting an edge and having extra cash to buy good equipment seems to make sense.
Or not.
Whatever works.

 

[antipeople]

Go to a normal college, get a normal education (so if you don't make it as a filmmaker, you'll still have something to fall back on), take any film classes they have, but in the mean time, spend all your free time making films. It really is one of the few things that if you do it enough, you WILL get better.

And then spend that $26,000 on a camera.