Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Los Angeles Film School .........!!

www.hollywoodentertainmentjobs.com lists many Internship programs ranging from Major Record Labels, TV Networks, Production Studio, Gaming Companies, if interning is the path you would like to take. Another choice an individual can make is to enroll into a film school / Video Production School and intern for a Film and/or TV studio as well.

One of the side effects of the increased demand for a film school education has been an increase in the number of film schools offering what they claim is a professional-quality level of education. While some programs are indeed respectable enough, it is important to remember that the best film school programs will employ active (or at least recently active) members of the entertainment community. Since those members almost always live in Los Angeles or New York -- primarily Los Angeles, which remains the capital of the entertainment industry -- most reputable programs will be located in striking distance of these two cities. In this regard, screenwriting is unlike fiction writing; Iowa and Stanford garnered glowing reviews for their masters' programs Community in fiction writing due largely in part to the novelist's proclivity to live in less urban surroundings, but with few exceptions this is simply not the case in the world of screenwriters, most of whom live in or around L.A. Even writers whose careers have tailed off a bit tend to stick nearby with the hopes of a -- not entirely unlikely, given the natural ebbs and flows one tends to find in most screenwriting careers -- comeback, a disproving thumb-of-the-nose to Fitzgerald's once-widely-accepted notion that "there are no second acts in American life."

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