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"We'll be able to get all the things we ever dreamed of... front, and rear spoilers for the cars!"

I can't really fully respond to this question, since my program isn't intensive (only two film classes), but for what it's worth, I can say you exchange a lot with your fellow students about pretty much anything related to film, which is always a blast, you have to act in a profesionnal matter (respect deadlines, respect co-workers, ...), and you learn how to work in a team.

This last point is something I just recently experienced, and it's such an important thing. Each person in the team is an artist, and artists, especially in a team, step on each others toes. We each have our own vision of how the project should look like, so we all have to "put some water in our wine", be flexible, open to other's suggestions. Or else we wouldn't amount to anything.

Another problem, at our school at least, is the limited equipment, and the fascist regulations they impose on us regarding the said equipment. We have only two GL-2s, a few analog cameras (VHS), and 2-3 lighting sets. They've recently established a 100$ deposit policy, and everyone's trying to get a hand on a camera. I think we can have them for only a day at a time, so we can't really work on elaborate projects in one shot.

Well I can tell how a Sight and Sound Video class is like at NYU

we are currently in the TV studio

10 am -11 am, tech theorie, a dude is talking about technical stuff... 11-12.30 our teacher is teaching us stuff screening the films we made the days before. 12.30-13.30 BREAK, lunch time. 13.30pm-6pm we go into studio and 2 students direct a short film, each of them has 2 hours time to do it. Crew of 12 people, actors, Technical assitens, all are forced to cooperate. 6pm-midnight, go home and relax, then go to sleep