50th Episode!! *Ash and Christian Screaming*
Film Jams
Howdy Film Jammers, this is our 50th episode and we are excited
We've got a special guest for you and it's gonna be great. - We know you're the special guest. - What? - Yeah - Oh.. Okay
So for the big 50 we wanted to ask the age-old question
Should you or shouldn't you go to film school? Right and we have A sh here this week who's a youtuber friend of ours
She's gonna be joining us on Tuesdays and doing her own videos on film jams. Yeah
Thank you so much. Like the the audition process though is really really rigorous. Mm-hmm. You know, it's hanging film jammers
It's me your boy Chad
*Unintelligible Yelling in a German Accent*
My name is Popsicle Paulie and...
*Chewbacca Sound*
The heck is film jams, I'm here to fix the leak
Film school can cost upward of $30,000 a year. I went to Emerson it's right now
It's like 32 grand for one year of film school the University of Tampa's probably over 20,000 a year. Ouch
I mean you could get a canon c300
Cinema camera, you could get a nice lighting package like a sky panel a couple boom mics a boom pole
C-stands, combo stands, Cardellinis, Mathelinis, a bunch of Mambo combos, tripods, lenses, a monopod, XLR cables
You could have like literally like an ice cream maker throw in there too and still it would be less money than film school
so you're saying that I could have started my own production company for the price of one year in film school
Sort of yeah
Internships are really powerful. You can learn on the job about what to do what not to say how to manage clients
I worked at a small production company when I first started and I saw kind of the ins and outs of
the process of working with clients and how to even how to do billing stuff
I kind of like asked a few questions when I was there and how to do that just simple stuff that they wouldn't teach you
Necessarily in film school. I wish they did
Yeah
I think that what makes
internships
So effective is the fact that you get to see the entire process from beginning to end and that's not really something that they show
You in film school take classes and they show you each of the individual parts
But it doesn't really all make sense until you put all the nice little puzzle pieces together
You can see a job through getting the script
Producing it shooting it and editing it all together and that's a really important thing to see as a young filmmaker our very own Lucas
started as a intern here as an editor and
He's now a full-time employee
ladies and gentlemen
*crickets*
Everybody learns things in different ways
some from books
Some from hearing some from sign language
some from video, but I think everyone learns from doing.
Doing what?
Doing film. Oh
So I did go to film school. I went to Emerson College in Boston
And for me, the best part of film school was every semester
I got to take a film class and make an actual film
We got to troubleshoot get a team recruit everybody and get organized like you would in the real world
But what film school didn't really teach me was how to create a business or how to do
Billing or invoice for employees that kind of thing
You didn't learn a lot of the logistics and the business side of things in film school
I did learn about history, which is great and it gives you a good background in filmmaking
But it didn't get those real-world
kind of
Experiences on the business side of things in film school that you did just going out and doing things I do at film school taught
more about the business and the logistics side than just the history and the creative side of things some people learn and they can take
A lot from a lecture for me. It wasn't as easy to learn that way
So it really depends on how you learn and what you can get out of film school. So Ash here- I thought you were listening to me
Ya, no, I was. - So what did you get out of film school? You went to the University of Tampa, right? Yeah
I still am it was cool cuz I got to learn about the history of film and watch these really cool old
Like noir movies and with the French new-wave all that good stuff. It really lacked in
The actual act of learning how to be on a set right that was really difficult to try to figure out on your own
Going through internships and - sure - all that jazz
Now you said you didn't get to quite make as many films as i did
Like we got to make a film every semester. You said you didn't do that or I didn't really make too many
films right until my end of junior year and then my current senior year one thing that I wish they taught me in college was
You know, how much do you charge?
Somebody what do you charge for camera or for for editing or something like that?
Yeah, they didn't they didn't tell me that at all
I didn't either we had to kind of figure out in the real world like how
What the rates are and stuff like that, you know, which was especially hard still being a student in college
employers may try to take advantage of you since you're still a student and you don't really know how to talk about it and you
May think initially that oh, well, I am still a student in school
Maybe my current experience isn't enough, but it was really difficult trying to navigate
All of the talks about money and how much I should be charging for my time
It's hard to talk about money. Sometimes when you don't know what you should even be asking for
So it makes it a difficult conversation. So that would be great at film schools
Tell a little more about that something we all need to know. It's important. Come on people
You can't just get on no can of beans I need that money
Networking networking is really important to the film industry because it's people that you meet on film sets and
Working on different projects that might later hire you to work on their film or you might want to hire them
Maybe they're a great editor or they're a great sound person and you need them for your film
So creating a big fat Network is really important to building your career. That's not really something that they teach you in school either
That's really something that I had to teach myself and after
getting some jobs and
talking to so many people
The one thing that I learned how to do was to not say no to a job
And to do the best work that I possibly could and that
Is what really gave me the future opportunities that I have today if you're on social media
You can reach out to a lot of people who have similar interests as you that are into
Cinematography videography and see if they want to collaborate on any future projects. These are all great ways to
Widen your network of people that you know and can work with in film school
One thing that they did teach us was to put together a nice demo reel of your work and we created some kind of mock
Advertisements for creating our demo reel since we didn't have any work that we had to that point
So that's something really good that you can get out there and create and even after film school keeping it up to date
cinema real or demo real for your work
That's a great way to get clients and then share it on social media network. Do it do it. Do it do it
So does your degree really matter or is it your real?
Is it your network of people that you know that are gonna get your jobs in the film business. They don't give
If you got a C in math, but it is nice to be able to check that box off of your application
Yeah, I went to film school
Look at me so is film school really worth it. I personally enjoyed my time there. I learned a lot
I've met some great people but for me the on-the-job training that getting out there and making my own movies
That's how I really learned and networked
but nowadays you can get on YouTube or Linda and just
watch videos on how to make movies or what to do in the film business and there's so much content out there online now that
Maybe you don't need film school. Maybe it's an option where you don't have to do that.
I started all of this
Initially from learning how to do it on YouTube and then I thought that I needed to go to film school
You really can
learn all of these things on your own if you just
Google it if you search it if you go looking for it
So for some people film school might be a great option for others
You can still get out there and buy yourself a camera buy yourself a lighting kit for a minimal investment and start making
Video production a career you can put together a really nice demo reel and use that and get online
And network to meet people and to get out there get your name out there and start making money doing video production
there's a lot of options today choose whatever option is best for you and
Just go out there and do it. Alright guys. Remember to subscribe for new content like this
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I'm gonna tune in Tuesday do it. No. Just kidding. I'm gonna watch Friday only you don't want to watch me then
Why did you bring me on here? should've gone with popsicle paulie
popsicle paulie
*crying*
that guy?
He's good
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So 50 huh