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Seen: America 3.0

12.26.08 @ 6:48PM Tags : economy, jontaplin, recession, seen

One of the reasons I believe film school is less compulsory today is the increasing availability of course syllabi, lecture notes, and lectures themselves available online, not just from film schools but from educational institutions all over. I’m never arguing against school or education in general, I’m just saying that in many cases, paying a lot of money to go to a specialized/grad school may not be the best investment for an individual who is already highly motivated to work in that sector. One understandably needs to go to medical school to be a doctor, or law school to be a lawyer, but film school is an entirely different matter. More »

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The Bush Effect

12.22.08 @ 1:34AM Tags : design, economy, georgebush, layoffs, mtv, nyc, recession, rhapsody, viacom

One of the main arguments for going to film school is to give you time and separation to focus on the medium during your formative years, as opposed to spending much of your youthful energy on a possibly-unrelated day job. And while my job successfully moved me from North Carolina to New York (a necessary step in this site’s “starts a film career in New York” storyline), it didn’t do so for free: although it paid me monetarily, there’s a cost associated with working a job as opposed to going to school… and that cost is time. More »