karandikshit02
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Hey guys, I'm from India. I need some genuine guidance in the matter of college application.
To give you my background, I'm 22, graduate with degree in film engineering and electrical science with a minor in drama and public speaking. I've recently made up my mind to become a filmmaker. In retrospect to that, I don't have any prior experience. I'm an absolute beginner with no creative portfolio. I just know how to operate my phone's camera, that's it. I do have some rough drafts for scripts and narrative ideas that I want to make. My aim is to work big time in hollywood. I just don't know where to start. Also, . I'm from an extremely impoverish background with family income less than 30K Usd per year. Now that everything is out, let me ask a couple of questions -
1. Being an absolute beginner, should I consider applying to Mfa programs or do I need to go for Bfa program and do bachelor's again. In retrospect to this, I've had a conversation with the admission counceller at Emersion college and she.said people with all experiences are accepted in the program as long as you are willing to put up hard work. But I want to learn from an insider's perspective from someone who is undergoing this degree or has completed this degree.
2. Please suggest me some low tution but good film programs cause like I said even if I get some student loans , getting 100k in debt right after graduating film school for me is nearly impossible. Add to that the struggles of an immigrant to apply for visas and appeal for its extension, it will literally become a chaos. I just recently checked nyu tisch fees is around 83k per year. Now they say most of the students are granted financial aid of some form and net price calc suggested I could get about 10-15 k less but for 3 years that makes it more than 150k..So please suggest me low tution but great film programs where acceptance rate for. International students is also high.
3. I've also heard some buzz about private for profit.schools like full sail, ny film academy, la film school etc that have different accelerated programs for film production and directing which everyone could enroll into. I've heard a lot when it comes to full sail uni. It is a huge bone of contention on the internet, with some people saying the programs and equipments are top notch and their network is awesome while other peope are criticising some of the faculties and saying accelerated programs leaves no space for any relationships.
How good is the network of these private for profit school as compared to private uni like nyu tisch, ucla, usc etc. Are these accelerated programs even worth considering and how good is their network as compared to networks of usc,nyu etc. Cause this leads to another fact. I know the list of succesful alumini from private universities like scorcesse, spike lee, chloe.zhao, ryan coogler, m night shyamalan, george lucas etc is huge but on the contrary we have people like damien chazelle - the youngest filmmaker to win academy award at 32 and man behind brilliant films like whipash and la la land. I checked his background and he graduated.from film program at harvard. Now my.research on the internet says harvard is not even in the top film 50 schools in us. Is networking affected by which university you graduate from for example - folks from full sail, ny film academy etc do they have the same level of network as graduates from ucla,usc,nyu have. Cause the facilites in both these type of institutions are top notch with both uni giving grants to.studemts upto 10k usd for shooting their first film. But one is accelerated program and the other is regular program. One is highly reputed and the other is not. One is obscelenlyexpensive than the other one ( nyu , usc etc being the expensive ones )
4. What if you get an admission in a uni which is not even in top 50 or 100 film schools, is it worth considering those options or not.
5. Please note my interests are more aligned towards directing so I think it is also meaningful to apply for Mfa directing programs or should I opt for film programs in general.
6. I've also heard there are institutes like Uc Irvine where they got tution free program for its students on the condition, students have to serve as TA. From a person who is a beginner and from a different bachelor's education, is it possible to get into those schools and apply for those financial aid programs.
Anyone who answers those questions, your help in any way is deeply appreciated
To give you my background, I'm 22, graduate with degree in film engineering and electrical science with a minor in drama and public speaking. I've recently made up my mind to become a filmmaker. In retrospect to that, I don't have any prior experience. I'm an absolute beginner with no creative portfolio. I just know how to operate my phone's camera, that's it. I do have some rough drafts for scripts and narrative ideas that I want to make. My aim is to work big time in hollywood. I just don't know where to start. Also, . I'm from an extremely impoverish background with family income less than 30K Usd per year. Now that everything is out, let me ask a couple of questions -
1. Being an absolute beginner, should I consider applying to Mfa programs or do I need to go for Bfa program and do bachelor's again. In retrospect to this, I've had a conversation with the admission counceller at Emersion college and she.said people with all experiences are accepted in the program as long as you are willing to put up hard work. But I want to learn from an insider's perspective from someone who is undergoing this degree or has completed this degree.
2. Please suggest me some low tution but good film programs cause like I said even if I get some student loans , getting 100k in debt right after graduating film school for me is nearly impossible. Add to that the struggles of an immigrant to apply for visas and appeal for its extension, it will literally become a chaos. I just recently checked nyu tisch fees is around 83k per year. Now they say most of the students are granted financial aid of some form and net price calc suggested I could get about 10-15 k less but for 3 years that makes it more than 150k..So please suggest me low tution but great film programs where acceptance rate for. International students is also high.
3. I've also heard some buzz about private for profit.schools like full sail, ny film academy, la film school etc that have different accelerated programs for film production and directing which everyone could enroll into. I've heard a lot when it comes to full sail uni. It is a huge bone of contention on the internet, with some people saying the programs and equipments are top notch and their network is awesome while other peope are criticising some of the faculties and saying accelerated programs leaves no space for any relationships.
How good is the network of these private for profit school as compared to private uni like nyu tisch, ucla, usc etc. Are these accelerated programs even worth considering and how good is their network as compared to networks of usc,nyu etc. Cause this leads to another fact. I know the list of succesful alumini from private universities like scorcesse, spike lee, chloe.zhao, ryan coogler, m night shyamalan, george lucas etc is huge but on the contrary we have people like damien chazelle - the youngest filmmaker to win academy award at 32 and man behind brilliant films like whipash and la la land. I checked his background and he graduated.from film program at harvard. Now my.research on the internet says harvard is not even in the top film 50 schools in us. Is networking affected by which university you graduate from for example - folks from full sail, ny film academy etc do they have the same level of network as graduates from ucla,usc,nyu have. Cause the facilites in both these type of institutions are top notch with both uni giving grants to.studemts upto 10k usd for shooting their first film. But one is accelerated program and the other is regular program. One is highly reputed and the other is not. One is obscelenlyexpensive than the other one ( nyu , usc etc being the expensive ones )
4. What if you get an admission in a uni which is not even in top 50 or 100 film schools, is it worth considering those options or not.
5. Please note my interests are more aligned towards directing so I think it is also meaningful to apply for Mfa directing programs or should I opt for film programs in general.
6. I've also heard there are institutes like Uc Irvine where they got tution free program for its students on the condition, students have to serve as TA. From a person who is a beginner and from a different bachelor's education, is it possible to get into those schools and apply for those financial aid programs.
Anyone who answers those questions, your help in any way is deeply appreciated