It’s difficult to resume what you learn because what film school did is giving me the knowledge of everything. I didn’t chose a program in which I was only specializing in one thing, I took one that gave me knowledge of everything so that I could later on make the choice.

The Basics of things

There’s quite a lot to learn about this industry. Even film school can’t teach you everything that you could learn about it, it only give you the basic that you need to get on a set and be able to do what you have to do. IF you want to be a director, it will teach you what you need to know, if you want to become an editor it will tell you what you need to know.

So during the program, teachers introduced us to the equipment, set protocols and etc.. It’s quite a lot of learning for the first few months. Classroom after classroom, so when you finally have the chance to go out on set and make your first short film, it’s an amazing moment of joy.

Set Experience

But as soon as everything starts you realize how difficult it is, so you rely on the teachers and their knowledge to guide you through it. After all, that’s why you’re there, for the teachers and their knowledge. No one care about the books, nothing in a book is ever giving you the full experience, while someone who went through the process can. Books are good for later on, when you need to know more about things. But having the knowledge from film school is giving you an edge.

You can make mistakes

You finish your first film, you realize that it’s not perfect, generally far from it, but then you learn and you do another one and another one. So at the end from each one you’ve made you learned from your mistakes, because you’ll make some and there isn’t a better place to do them. The chances of you getting fired are small, unless you really do something really really wrong.

So if you want me to resume what a year of school is:  It’s mistake after mistakes and sometime a success or too, but then more mistakes, and at the end you start seeing that you do less and less of those and more and more successful things.

It’s an experience

It’s what I’ve learned during the year, my mistakes and from what I was told by the teachers and that’s what I paid for. I wanted to make my mistakes and learn from them so I don’t do them again later on. You don’T have to go to film school if you don’t want to, but it will give you more knowledge in one year that it would if you were to learn on your own.

There is also the fact that you have a list of people, both students and teachers, that you can call if you need help on your films or even if you need some work. Having connections will get you work.

But then, once it’s over, its a totally different thing. Film school isn’t the film industry, its similar but a lot smaller. Now its time for you to go out in the real world.

If you had a different experience, leave a comment and tell us about yours!