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Florida State University - College of Motion Picture Arts

Review by anonymous on the film school 'Florida State University - College of Motion Picture Arts'

Don’t go to this school unless you want to be a production assistant
Overall rating
1.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Post-production suites available
  • Access to professional equipment and resources
  • Student films are funded (though with restrictions)
  • Slightly cheaper tuition for Florida residents
Cons
  • Unqualified and uninspiring teachers
  • Outdated Hollywood-focused structure and ideas
  • Minimal, unsafe equipment training
  • Poor mental health support, toxic environment
  • Misleading statistics
  • Terrible alumni relations and no career support after graduation
  • Many graduates leave the field or return to pre-degree jobs
I started this program a few years ago. Based on the good reviews and the school’s proud claims, I expected I would receive a great education. However, soon after starting, I realized this was not going to be what I imagined. Our editing classes mostly consisted of watching free YouTube...
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Chapman University - Dodge College of Film and Media Arts

Review by HorseGirl420 on the film school 'Chapman University - Dodge College of Film and Media Arts'

Dont Come In With High Expectations.
Overall rating
2.00 star(s)
Pros
  • disneyland is nearby
  • plenty of diversity to go around
Cons
  • The editing program itself
  • The teacher can be mean
  • The quality of the classes are a hit and miss.
First off, let's talk about the pros to attending Chapman. The weather is great all the time and if you come here, you avoid that good for nothin snow back east. Disneyland is just around the corner and if you're lookin for a little bit of expensive fun, it's got you covered. The campus is...
HorseGirl420 does not recommend this film school!
Concordia University

Review by anonymous on the film school 'Concordia University'

I like
Overall rating
5.00 star(s)
I really like it, I'm glad I was able to get in, and the learning process is great. I've made a lot of friends. Basically, everything I've ever dreamed of is here.
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Prague Film School

Review by anonymous on the film school 'Prague Film School'

Room for improvement but an overall incredible experience!
Overall rating
3.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Access to expensive, professional level cinema equipment
  • Central location in Prague; a gorgeous and unforgettable city
  • Peers are from a wide variety of countries and ages
  • School culture
  • Friendly and accommodating to every students needs
  • Well organized and ran, via Alice platform
Cons
  • For-profit and not-selective with admissions
  • Expensive tuition and school accommodation, but mostly for European standards
  • Purely practical, no theory
  • Mixed or bad quality of teachers and class content. Most are previous alumni
  • More of a intensive bootcamp than a school. Grading means nothing and is not taken seriously by teachers
I honestly think the experience of attending Prague Film School will vary depending on the attendee's skill level, situation, background, outlook, etc. Here is mine: Expenses I am an American who had never traveled outside of the country before coming to PFS. In the United States, it is very...
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AFI Conservatory

Review by user1234 on the film school 'AFI Conservatory'

Make sure you are committed.
Overall rating
3.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Gain a network of people you will continue to work with.
  • Intensive focus on narrative 3 act structure
  • Directing Actor classes for Directors
Cons
  • Some faculty isn't as embedded into the industry
  • Not enough room to experiment.
  • Very little screenwriting classes.
  • Lack of mentorship for directors from faculty
  • AFI Directing showcase is underfunded and there is low effort placed on it.
  • Merit based Scholarships
A couple of things... AFI like many film schools, and rather like every institution, is not perfect. If you see your career after film school to be a writer/director RETHINK AFI VERY CAREFULLY. Many fellows in the directing cohort are sold or marketed AFI to be a place where notable...
Chapman University - Dodge College of Film and Media Arts

Review by ChapmanReviewer on the film school 'Chapman University - Dodge College of Film and Media Arts'

The Editing Curriculum Is Not Very Good - Here's Why.
Overall rating
2.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Great weather
  • Many chances to meet people.
Cons
  • The editing curriculum
  • Cutthroat and competitive
  • Not a lot of resources for struggling students.
  • The teacher can either make or break your experience here.
This review will specifically go over the MFA Editing Curriculum at Dodge Editing Expectations at Chapman: If you decide to attend the editing program at Chapman, you are expected to already be proficient in either Adobe Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, or Avid. It is also strongly recommended that...
ChapmanReviewer is undecided about recommending this film school
Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Review by anonymous on the film school 'Stony Brook University (SUNY)'

Everything just fits here, including you too.
Overall rating
5.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Exceptional professors
  • Film equipment accessible to anyone in the program
  • Helpful in defining my writer’s voice
  • Weekly table reads of your scripts
  • The faculty cares about your wellbeing
  • Amazing course structure
  • Overall diversity in the program
  • The professors are professionals in the industry
Cons
  • Not many campus activities
I discovered Stony Brook on this website. I looked up film schools in New York, and there she was, comparable to all the schools that would bankrupt me. The out of state tuition was a little steep, but that’s only when comparing it to its own in-state tuition, not other film schools. You get the...
Anonymous recommends this film school
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Brooklyn College (CUNY) - Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema

Review by anonymous on the film school 'Brooklyn College (CUNY) - Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema'

Great value. Great Location. Up-and-Coming
Overall rating
5.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Great value especially for in-state students. NYC based education plus it's neat to be on the Steiner Stuido lot (a Speilberg movie shooting here currently). Use the money that you save on the films that you make, which are your true calling card.
Cons
  • Faculty can power trip and give bad advice in critiques just like any other school. Here you will just pay less to listen to the garbage. You also are in NYC, which is cool, but it's still not L.A.
I've been absolutely happy with Feirstein. Great community. State-of-the-art facility. You will be taking a risk on an up-and-comer school but should pay off. At least, visit the facilities.
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University of Colorado at Boulder (BFA)

Review by anonymous on the film school 'University of Colorado at Boulder (BFA)'

Cu boulder
Overall rating
4.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Great facilities
  • Experimental influence
  • Easy equipment rentals
  • Film theory and History is top tier
  • Great cinema studies courses
Cons
  • Lacking filmmaker professors who put in personal time with students. They are often working on their own projects and students are kind of left out in the wind to figure it out. Which is fine, but I'm paying to have mentors
  • Most students like the same things and films
Great school with some passionate professors. But the professors really make it break the program. The schools got all the equipment and stuff but don't expect to find your original voice here. They are too radically progressive. In left leaning but Jesus, I want to learn about film aesthetics...
Anonymous is undecided about recommending this film school
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NYU Tisch Kanbar Institute of Film & Television

Review by anonymous on the film school 'NYU Tisch Kanbar Institute of Film & Television'

A Great Experience
Overall rating
5.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Great education
  • Great faculty
  • Lots of opportunities to portfolio-build
Cons
  • Location in NYC makes it difficult to make connections at top LA companies
  • Limited collaboration with other departments
  • Expensive
I am an alum of the Dramatic Writing program at NYU, and loved my experience there. It completely revolutionized my understanding of not just television writing but storytelling in general (and I arrived thinking I had a lot of writing experience). All of my professors were knowledgeable and...
Anonymous recommends this film school
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Prague Film School

Review by anonymous on the film school 'Prague Film School'

Not worth the money
Overall rating
2.00 star(s)
Pros
  • You do get to touch a lot of equipment.
  • The school is located in the heart of Prague
  • You'll get to have some classes where you'll learn very interesting things. However that depends on the teacher. The quality of teachers is not consistent.
Cons
  • It's a business oriented film school. They bring as many people in as they can. You'll have 4 groups of 12 students in the semester program which makes it like a large factory line where teachers have to go fast through consultation to consultation to make it fair but as a result you do not get to have what they advertise on their website- a possibility to develop your own voice.
  • They make good money by making students sign contracts for appartment room rentals and renting it for 1000 EUR per room to students and contracts are fixed for 5 months which you can't break out from. So you'll arrive in Prague and see you are paying double the amount of what someone else is paying. So it's a real estate business happening in parallel. Bring students in through the film school - rent them rooms at high prices.
  • Quality of teachers is not very high, some of them are alumni. So they save money on hiring faculty that is well sought out in the industry.
I wish I had seen something like this when I was searching. I had contacted some ex students through instagram but I later realized that when students are young and have not lived in Europe such as Indian young students for whom traveling to the heart of Europe is a big change already and can...
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Temple University - School of Theater, Film and Media Arts

Review by anonymous on the film school 'Temple University - School of Theater, Film and Media Arts'

Went in with no experience, came out a bona fide filmmaker
Overall rating
4.00 star(s)
Growing up, I knew I'd be an arts major and professional, I just struggled to figure out what medium I wanted to commit my adult life toward. The closest thing I got to film before choosing this program on a whim was a brief exploration of stick figure animation and messing around in iMovie. I...
Anonymous is undecided about recommending this film school
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Ryerson University

Review by mattyDraps on the film school 'Ryerson University'

Best Film School in Canada? - location can't be beat, but faculty needs a shake up
Overall rating
4.00 star(s)
As with any film school, you're going to get out what you put in. Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly called Ryerson, the name changed because the guy was the architect of the residential school system... YIKES) had a reputation for being the best film school in Canada when I applied back...
mattyDraps recommends this film school
NYU Tisch Kanbar Institute of Film & Television

Review by anonymous on the film school 'NYU Tisch Kanbar Institute of Film & Television'

NYU Dual Degree MBA/MFA Program
Overall rating
2.00 star(s)
First of all, the program does not provide a safety net in terms of job placement. Every year the program admits, at most, 5 people, and the least the teachers running the program could do is introduce us to companies who are in the market to hire. They are (the teachers) some of the most...
Anonymous does not recommend this film school!
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Sarah Lawrence College

Review by tbone on the film school 'Sarah Lawrence College'

Sarah Lawrence is Great!
Overall rating
5.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Flexible Curriculum
  • Small Classes
  • Ability to work closely with professors
  • A lot of film resources for a small liberal arts school
Cons
  • Expensive
  • Food on campus is not good
  • Student community can be cliquey
Sarah Lawrence has a very unique approach to learning, with a focus on small class seminars and one on one projects completed with professors. This approach carries over into film classes, with most being small group classes focused on completing specific projects. I really enjoyed all my film...
tbone recommends this film school
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ArtCenter College of Design

Review by anonymous on the film school 'ArtCenter College of Design'

Safety school, last resort
Overall rating
2.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Inspiring professors
  • You will make films
Cons
  • Everything else
Good faith tl;dr: ArtCenter should be your last resort safety school. Only go here if you are willing to blow the money and didn't get into any other film school in the LA area (and really want to go to film school immediately). Alternatively, keep applying to the actual top film schools (USC...
Anonymous does not recommend this film school!
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UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT)

Review by anonymous on the film school 'UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT)'

UCLA on Downturn
Overall rating
3.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Price
  • Campus
Cons
  • Lack of access to resources
  • Schedule
  • Professional fees
  • Low quality
When I applied to the Production MFA, I definitely hadn’t expected to get in. Much of the process and its student body hasn’t demystified and for that reason I think TFT has gotten away with a lot as a department, off the back of an old reputation of excellence. I truly wouldn’t recommend this...
Anonymous does not recommend this film school!
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California College of ASU (formerly Columbia College Hollywood)

Review by anonymous on the film school 'California College of ASU (formerly Columbia College Hollywood)'

A few solid professors and peers, but an otherwise underwhelming experience
Overall rating
2.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Small class sizes/focused attention
  • Solid equipment
  • A few really great teachers/peers
Cons
  • Administration was dishonest
  • Some teachers were phoning it in
  • Some peers were very much lost in life and had no drive or initiative
  • Alumni network doesn't exist
I graduated in the early 2010's, so this review may not be entirely relevant to the state of the program/institution as it is now. With that said, I do know that the college closed its Tarzana location and relocated somewhere near DTLA. I know that they were absorbed by ASU as a way to survive...
Anonymous does not recommend this film school!
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Carnegie Mellon University

Review by anonymous on the film school 'Carnegie Mellon University'

Program deliberately misrepresents itself
Overall rating
1.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Pittsburgh can be a nice city
  • Campus is small
Cons
  • Program doesn’t have any resources
  • No graduate level courses
  • Faculty are insignificant
  • No opportunities in career post graduation
  • Falsely represents itself as top school in media arts
After finishing my MFA at CMU, I, like many of my peers, was unable to do anything with my career. The program was a nightmare because it advertises itself as the top school for moving image media arts but that couldn’t be further from the truth. The faculty are all random and there is no...
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Stony Brook University (SUNY)

Review by Supernegro on the film school 'Stony Brook University (SUNY)'

Challenging and Fabulous!
Overall rating
5.00 star(s)
Pros
  • Hands on learning
  • Professors who are currently writing and making films: Walking the walk!
  • Still a well-kept secret
  • Professors who also teach at Ivy League or elite NYC film schools
  • Small class sizes
  • Ability to swerve and change your concentration
  • Learning about every aspect of filmmaking in the first year
  • Professional agents, producers and filmmakers regularly speak in producing class.
Cons
  • You have to get comfortable with feeling out of your comfort zone.
  • Some technical classes move very quickly
2 things stand out in my second year of film school. #1: In my directing class, the professor insists everyone does their own camera work (we shoot weekly exercises with small crews) ...and it is incredibly challenging. But I'm learning how to get the shots I need to tell a story, how to frame...
Supernegro recommends this film school

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