I am beginning to look at schools to go to and I was wondering what you guys thought of Full Sail in Florida. I have taken 3 years of Television Productions and am planning to Intern over the summer and next school year. I am more intersted in the editing and camera work then the script writing and directing. I was also looking at Emerson and Pitt. So if you guys know anything about those that would really be useful.

if you want more editing and camera work then full sail is a good school for you. it deffinatly gives you alot of hands on work and really camera and editing is prolly the 2 things you get more of at full sail than anything. i just graduated from there in december and liked it alot. full sail is lacking in theory and directing but when it comes to caamera and post work it is top shelf.

cameron

Full Sail was hotly debated a couple of times on the old forums.
http://pub20.ezboard.com/fstudentfilmsfilmschools.showMessage?topicID=20.topic

http://pub20.ezboard.com/fstudentfilmsfilmschools.showMessage?topicID=25.topic

And I'm sure you'll find some goodies if you check the LOAFS

http://www.filmmaker.com/loafs/

The place always seemed sketchy to me, but I live 3,500 miles away (Then again, so does the majority of the industry).

Good luck!

Nota "Prefers propellers" Mono

Thanks about the stuff about full sail. It made me change my mind about how good it sounded. I was wondering about University Of Pittsburgh. I looked at their class offering and they seem to offer alot but I can't find much about them on any of these web sites. If you know anything it would be very thankful.

if you are not planing on going to one of the major film schools (USC, UCLA, NYU...) then Full Sail is a very good option because of the equiptment. any school can teach you film but it is very helpful when you are trying to find a job right out of school to know the high end equiptment. High end equiptment is not usually found in film deparentments of random universitys so be careful not to end up somewhere shooting on 8mm and linear editing. Thats where Full Sail is very valuable because the equiptment they have is top of the line.

Cameron

While Full Sails equipment is top of the line, it appears they dont know how it works, or dont care to teach the students. Equipment is worthless if no one shows you how to use it. I have spoken to so many Full Sail grads, and seen so many of their shorts that I have to say the school is the poster child for "Dont waste your money on film school, make a movie with it instead." Im not saying that is how I feel, but schools like Full sail brought about that way of thinking.
Just watch some of their shorts, and see for yourself. "The Body" is here, and the best short ive seen come out of there. Great lighting, and composition, but the sound is horrible, and the story has holes. Gabe Sanches (dont mean to call you out man) The film maker, told me they cut his script in half, so it didnt make sense. Wouldnt alow him time for ADR work, and on the day of shooting, told him to remove all the cursing, which he refused. They also wouldnt let him shoot hand held. They said the camera was to heavy. Funny, the camera says it was designed to be shot hand held. How is that teaching you how to use high end equipment?
The list goes on. I saw them take a 10 hour day to get one crane move... That they never actually got. Almost all the students want to be directors, but only one gets to shoot 35mm. The rest work on their crew, and often try to undermine their authority. That isnt a productive environment. Paying $30,000 to build a fire place on someone elses shoot dosent sound great either. It seems like the majority of the students are rich kids who decided to be film makers yeasterday, causing film makers like Gabe to be caught in the crossfire, and the faculty is simply interested in turning over for the next group willing to pay tuition, and not in the quality of their product. Buyer beware, Full Sail only cares about your wallet.
R. Michael McWhorter

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