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If you're worried about expenses, your best bet might be to try to get into a state school program. The best state school grad film programs, as far as I know, are UCLA, FSU, and UT-Austin (I'm sure there are others as well, I'm just not aware of them). If you live in any of these states for a year before starting school, you will qualify as a resident and pay resident tuition. Of course, I know the top private schools (USC, NYU, etc.) also offer scholarships and other grants, so you might want to contact those schools directly to find out about that. Regardless of where you go, film school isn't cheap and you will most likely end up racking up some more debt, its just a question of how much debt. Might want to put that business degree to work and make some money before starting school again...
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| Posts: 54 | Location: Los Angeles, CA | Registered: January 19, 2008 |    |
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Not sure what you mean by "teach myself the industry." If you want to be a director, you will go to school to learn how to direct films, how to be a visual storyteller and bring various people together to achieve your vision. Practical information about how "the industry" works is valuable, but to me it is separate and secondary to cultivating your talents as a storyteller. The best advice i could give you would be to watch as many films as possible, read as many good books as possible, figure out what excites you about storytelling. What themes? What techniques? What kind of director do you want to be? You don't have to answer these questions before film school, but if you have a more concrete idea of why you want to be a director, it can only help your application. Now on the more specific area of getting a job, it might not be a bad idea to try to work for a producer, or even as a PA on sets, to at least start meeting some people in the "real" world and get an understanding of how the Hollywood beast operates. While its important to have talent and craft, it is still a business of who you know, so the more film industry people you meet the better off you will be.
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| Posts: 54 | Location: Los Angeles, CA | Registered: January 19, 2008 |    |
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