should i go to film school and pursue film career

[luckyd]

i want to do film but im not sure. since I was young i had this idea for a movie and it would probably be sci fi. but then i would hear music and ive always pretended i had a movie and i would either in the movie have that song playing while there was a fight scene or something or i would pretend that song was going with a preview for my movie. but theres only 2 movies i have actually thought on making. After that my mind isnt really open for anthing else. for example If i was told to make a movie on a secret agent, i would not know how because i know nothing about how agents work and what they wear usually and basically i know nothing aobut the government and how it works and things like that. i wouldnt know who assigns missions to the agent and the kinds of weapons and who is all involved in the coverups or helping with the missions and giving the missions etc. and since i only have like 2 movies i could actually make, should i not get into the film buisness? i mean shouldnt i have like hundreds of ideas or be thinking of different movies i could make everyday, instead of thinking of the same 2 movies i could make for the past many years? im basically alwyas trying to perfect my movie incase i ever made it so that it could be really good, but once im done with that movie is that it? will a film school help broaden my mind for movies and different kinds of movies and help me to be able to keep thinking of more movies? or do i need to go into a film school with hundreds of ideas for movies, know all the things already like i was explaining about a secret agent movie, and already be super creative? cus im not any of that. I want a school to help me be very creative, and help me with thinking of hundreds ideas for different movies and different kinds and to help me understand how to know everything for a movie about maybe a king, where i could know how to research and find everything a king does and will do and all the people that work for him. I think i could do such a great job but i bet its easy for people to say im not meant for films when i know its something i would have so much fun in if i could get help. should i do films or do i seem like i dont meet the criteria since i only have 2 movies in mind and i cant really find a way to make other kind of movies...i just cant figure out to do with my life! but everything else doesnt get close to catching my attention like producing films does except for the way i would struggle with ideas and creativity and only have like 2 ideas for movies and cant think of any other kind of movies

 

[Josh]

Moved to the Film School forum.

 

[laudy32]

Dude, space your stuff into paragraphs. If they were it wouldn't be so hard to read it.

As far as your post, I am of the mind to say screw other people when it comes to telling you what you are not meant for. If you want to make films, make them. Film School is a great place to make films in a safe environment where you have like minded individuals who hav some of the same hopes and dreams you do.

I figure others on the forums could suggest specific schools.

 

[titaniumdoughnut]

If you have only two ideas, that's fine. Once you let yourself evolve into a filmmaker mindset, more will come. You may even find that those ideas gradually lose interest.

But you're on the right track. Don't force an idea. It will come to you.

 

[Kurt Wagner]

Read a lot. Reading helps with coming up with new ideas.

As for whether or not you should go to film school... I would recommend going, but ultimately that is your choice.

As for your example with the secret agent, that is irrelevant in my opinion. Knowing all the details of a secret agent and having an idea for a secret agent type of movie are two separate things. If you've seen spy movies, then you can have some idea of it... the rest comes from research in libraries, talking with other people who might know, and other random sources.

 

[Kyle Johnson]

i think of the same two movies all the time too, there's people movies and there's dream movies. You can wake up and find yourself thinking "I need to somehow convey this important symbol" but then you might wake up one day, in the middle of a day, while you're already awake you'll wake up again, and you'll wanna start laughing cause everyone around you is so involved in their own expression that the way things are unfolding infront of you its like a really intense movie! Excitign things happen all the time you just gotta pick and choose which ones to explain to us. we're all absolutely the biggest spirits aswell the biggest failures. I am looking for the kind of film that will show me today, tommorow. I wanna know where people are and what they are doing with their great knowledge.

I wouldnt recommend watching too many movies. make movies a very special thing, nowadays people go every week so its ruined, but i saw FEar and Loathing in Las Vegas last year in a theatre and it was wonderful cause i was able to sit in a rowdy/drunk crowd and pass in and out of the movie and not feel left out of the movie. cause the movie isnt trying to waste your time, its giving you time. its giving you a lot of time to imagine things. Thats what good LIFE is about, atleast the kind that leads you in new direction.

Write what you know, you said it yourself. go to school to find people. but there's also people right next to you. you gotta start now, go there to look for people to collaberate with.