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- You guys know that feeling at the end of the summer
when the summer's ending and you start getting that
feeling like, oh man, school is starting up again.
I totally remember having that feeling
when I was in school.
Now, I didn't hate school, and I was actually
pretty good in school even,
but I still had this uneasiness with school.
I didn't necessarily like it.
I wasn't super excited
to go to school or anything like that.
I honestly thought it was a bit of a waste of time,
even in university I would just skip so much
because the courses were kind of pointless.
I could have just read the textbook
or looked it up online or whatever
and I would have learned just as much
as being in that lecture.
But over my 30 years of life on this planet,
I have realized that learning is super huge.
But the real question is, do you need
to go to school for that?
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So, do you need to go to school
to get a profession, to be successful,
to have a career.
Well that's fairly easy to answer,
and first you need to ask yourself,
do I need to go to school in order to do this.
So for example, do I need to go to school
in order to be filmmaker?
Well, the answer is no.
You don't need to go to school.
And then the second question you need to ask
is, is it gonna make me a better filmmaker.
And if we're talking about film school,
then we can probably say yes.
So for some professions, you need to go to school.
Let's say you wanna become a lawyer,
you're gonna need to go to school
and get that piece of paper
so you can be a practicing lawyer.
But there's a ton of professions where you don't need
to go to school, and pretty much all of the media,
creative areas are in that sphere.
You do not need to go to school
in order to be a filmmaker or photographer or whatever.
But that doesn't mean that school is necessarily
a bad thing either.
You can learn a lot, and you can make a lot of friendships,
connections, people who you're gonna collaborate
with later on in life.
It's just a good, safe space to practice and learn.
But then we need to take it one step further
and that's to ask, is this the best way
of using my time and money.
Or is there a better use of my time and money than school?
So here we're really talking about college
or university where you're really
trying to get a profession.
And I would argue that college, university is not
necessarily the best use of your time and money.
At least for somebody like me.
I went from knowing nothing about filmmaking
to shooting for companies like Nike all from just
learning online through the internet.
That's it, I've never sat a day in a classroom
for filmmaking, and that's true of a lot of,
even the highest level filmmakers.
They haven't gone to any school.
Everything I've learned is from the internet
and by doing, and learning with other people.
So yes, you could spend thousands, and thousands,
tens of thousands of dollars, maybe even a hundred
thousand dollars on school and four years,
going to all these lectures, and going to school,
or maybe there's a better way.
Maybe you can use all that money and all that time
and just learn from the internet.
Invest in equipment and projects when you're starting out,
and really learn by doing and from the internet.
Because really there's so many resources online right now.
You honestly don't need school for any of the creative
fields nowadays, but what you do need is a drive to learn.
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Now, learning is the biggest key here.
It doesn't matter whether you go to school or not,
you need to learn.
It's the only way to become successful
and to find your place and get a profession
and stay there also.
You have to keep learning.
Learning never stops.
Some people need school to give them that more rigid,
disciplined environment to learn,
whereas if you're not in school,
well then it's all up to you.
You have to have the motivation to learn
and not be lazy.
But if you're dedicated and motivated like I was,
you really don't need school to teach you filmmaking.
By the way, if you go to school or not,
you should be learning on your own as much as possible.
Really take initiative for yourself,
because that's really the only way
you're gonna learn in the end.
You can go to school and learn absolutely nothing
if you're not interested and you're not into it at all.
School and being young in general is just such
a good time to figure out what you're good at
and what you enjoy doing.
And once you figure out that one thing
that you really enjoy doing,
and you're also good at,
then it's game over.
It's really easy to stay motivated and just
start learning, whatever the method of learning is,
whether it's school or the internet or whatever.
You will start learning at all cost.
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So, to become a filmmaker, do you need to go to school?
No, definitely not.
Is it bad?
No, not necessarily, but there might be some better ways
of spending your time and money.
But the key thing is to start learning,
start doing it now, don't wait for school
or anything else.
Start now.
All right, so let's say you did wanna start learning
right now, what are the best resources
to start learning from?
Now these are just a few of my favorites,
but there are tons of resources.
Number one we have no film school.
It's a really cool web site, it has everything
to do with filmmaking.
Everything from new tech to behind the scenes
of Hollywood films.
It just has so much good information on there.
I highly recommend no film school.
I check it all the time.
Number two is Skillshare.
And they're actually the amazing people
that sponsored this episode.
Skillshare is a really cool platform with just
tons of courses.
I think it's over 15,000 courses
on all sorts of stuff.
So it doesn't matter if you're interested in
filmmaking or graphic design or photography,
there's so many courses for you to learn from.
And it's ridiculously cheap compared
to let's say if you were gonna go to school.
And you're probably gonna get a better education
in a lot of ways if you just watch
a whole bunch of Skillshare videos.
I highly recommend putting in some money
to your learning experience, especially if you're not
going to school and paying all those tuition fees.
So a site like Skillshare is perfect,
it's super cheap, and you're gonna get a ton of value
for your money.
There's definitely a course for you
no matter what you're interested in.
And the best part is right now, the first
50 students are gonna get a free two month membership
to the website, so there's nothing stopping you
from learning right now.
So number two is Skillshare,
go and check them out right now.
Link is in the description.
Number three is my friend Peter McKinnon's channel.
He puts out all sorts of amazing tutorials
on photography, and filmmaking and editing
and everything else in between.
Most of you are probably already watching
his videos, but if you're not, make sure to check
out Peter McKinnon, he has a lot of really
good information and you're gonna learn a ton.
Number four is the channel called Film Riot.
They've been doing this for a really long time,
I don't even know how many years.
But I've been watching their Youtube videos
for a long time.
And they have really cool information.
It's a little bit higher level information I would
say, they're trying to make narrative shorts
and I think they even want to make feature films
later on so if you're interested in more of that
narrative filmmaking, Film Riot is the place to go.
They also have tons of other stuff on their channel.
You're gonna learn a ton from them.
So definitely check out Film Riot.
And then number five is Shane's Inner Circle.
So Shane Hurlbut is this DP from Hollywood.
He's DP'd all sorts of movies.
And he has this thing called the Inner Circle
which you subscribe to, I think it's around $20 a month.
And he puts out basically tutorials
and behind the scenes of his shoots
and all sorts of stuff,
and it's really high level stuff.
So this is really if you wanna be a serious professional
filmmaker, I highly recommend Shane's Inner Circle.
It's kinda like you have this one on one
relationship with a really legit Hollywood DP.
So you're just gonna learn a ton of really
high level stuff.
So this one isn't for the beginners,
but if you're really into filmmaking and you wanna
be a professional, I highly recommend Shane's Inner Circle.
So that's just a few of my favorite resources,
but there's so many more.
And don't be afraid to put some money
into these.
For example, Shane's Inner Circle,
I subscribed to it and it cost me a little bit of money,
but it's really worth it and it just forces me to
keep learning and keep learning and innovating
myself so I don't start falling behind either.
And I can keep up with the times.
And remember, I'm not telling you that you should
not go to school or school is just a terrible thing.
All I'm saying is that you need to think about
all your options and figure out what's the best
option for you.
And don't worry so much about what society tells us
we should do, that you should finish high school
and go to college, and get a stable job.
There's a lot of different ways that you can make
a living and get a profession for yourself and not
all of them require for you to go to school
in order to be a part of that profession.
And it's also an encouragement for you guys
who for whatever reason can't go to college.
Whether you can't afford it, or whatever's stopping you,
you do not need to go to film school
in order to become a filmmaker.
Or you don't need to go to photography school
to become a photographer.
You can learn so much online right now
and just by doing and working with other
photographers or filmmakers, you're gonna learn so much
and you're probably gonna make some money along the way.
And getting paid to learn is the best thing.
I love that.
And to celebrate back to school,
and because I wanna help each and every one of you
become a better filmmaker or photographer,
I'm putting everything on sale.
Back to school sale is starting right now.
The luts, the presets, all my teaching courses,
everything is gonna be on sale.
So if you've been checking out some of those,
make sure to get them right now.
Now is your chance.
You're gonna get a really good deal on those.
So back to school sale.
Everything on sale for the next couple weeks.
All right let me know what's your favorite resource to
learn from right now, comment it down below.
Hit that like button, subscribe to the channel,
and guys, enjoy the filmmaking process
and go get some of those travel feels.
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