Film = #2 most worthless degree

fun article..
like to point out that the #1 worthless degree is not using a very good image for representing that degree.

reasons:

  • It shows Mormon missionaries, who generally can NOT be in school or working during their mission
  • Mormons have no paid clergy
  • BYU (the big Mormon school) doesn't have a RELIGION major, you have to take religion classes to graduate ANY program, but there is not a RELIGION program.
 
Think you're over analysing a little Wheat :P Latin was represented by Draco Malfoy...

Good to see that my course is number #4...
 
I wonder what it's like living in a world where everyone's job is directly related to their degree.

(I'm not sure if I should be happy or hurt that they haven't deigned to include politics :D )
 
NickClapper said:
Think you're over analysing a little Wheat :P Latin was represented by Draco Malfoy...
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Wait, are you saying these latin classes WON'T help me be a death eater?!?!?! Damn, those were some misleading brochures.

I seem to recall Werner Herzog talking about if he started a film school. There was something about climbing a mountain, walking a few hundred miles and some other crazy things. His point was be an adventurer and learn physical endurance. The film stuff you learn on the way.
 
I remember being in the Radio Television Film program during my second semester and realizing... "everyone I've talked to that graduated with this works at the mall..."

So I stopped. No regrets so far haha.
 
Im going into my jr year at high school so it was time to start looking into collage. I was going to go for film but Is it true a film degree is useless?
 
If you can go to one of the big three USC, UCLA, AFi, or maybe NYU, you will make some connections. But, it could easily set you back $200,000. That a lot of money.
 
brianluce said:
If you can go to one of the big three USC, UCLA, AFi, or maybe NYU, you will make some connections. But, it could easily set you back $200,000. That a lot of money.
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Yeah true i feel you. And dont really have money like that. So now im once again undecieded about what to do lol
 
are you saying these latin classes WON'T help me be a death eater
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You could open up a Latin store. :lol:
If you can go to one of the big three USC, UCLA, AFi, or maybe NYU, you will make some connections. But, it could easily set you back $200,000.
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You can make connections just by working. Invest than $200,000 in index funds and utility stocks and in 4 years it might be worth perhaps $280,000.
 
Blade_Jones said:
You could open up a Latin store. :lol:

You can make connections just by working. Invest than $200,000 in index funds and utility stocks and in 4 years it might be worth perhaps $280,000.
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Okay, I think film school is crazy, unless you're rich, then, it's probably a smart thing. But the top 3 films schools are extremely selective. So if you get in, you're probably pretty good...at something. So at a place like USC School Of Cinema you're swimming in the deep end of the gene pool. Winging it on the streets of LA with a DSLR? well who knows where you'll land.

My dad was actually a prof at USC's film school, and he sat on the admissions committee for several years, and you know what he'd say to you guys? DON'T GO TO FILM SCHOOL. But if you HAVE to go, try and go to the Peter Stark Production program -- he says those students fare the best.
 
Film is just like music in the educational respect

I think you see more sucess stories without formal education than with

I think this has to do with the fact that it takes a strongly independent thinker to make a great film, and school can only teach you to follow in the footsteps of others.

Do you need to learn where to position your lights, or why not to use a still camera lens on a motion shoot?

well they can teach you that at school, or you could learn it all in 3 months for free

Connections, dont get me started. You need connections inside the locked doors, film school connections can help you assemble a crew, but not much else. They are all in the same spot you are.

The exception is if you can find a dumb trust fund kid, at that point, you can campaign to borrow some of their dad's talents (did you know in Macedonia money was actually called talents?, Ironic from a film perspective)
Then you can be a genius director like Tony Scott, who did so many things right that they gave him 2 wide release movies in a year. Gas pedal stuck for 90 minutes as a plot, I'll never be that good, and 2 released films by Scott and his dad's money proves it. If I was smart enough to think up such complex plots, I'd have 140 million bucks also. That's how the industry sees it.
 
With almost every successful person, it's not the education or lack thereof that made them successful. It was a drive/intuition/"X factor" that made them so. I'm sure the education helped, but if they didn't learn it in school they would have somewhere else. That's the kind of personality it takes.
 
PaulGriffith said:
With almost every successful person, it's not the education or lack thereof that made them successful. It was a drive/intuition/"X factor" that made them so. I'm sure the education helped, but if they didn't learn it in school they would have somewhere else. That's the kind of personality it takes.
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Right on Paul, hole in one
 
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