UCLA

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UCLA film school has many hot girls. i don''t know if that''s a deciding factor, just wanted to point that out. i''m an engineering student at UCLA and the film classes were a welcome escape from the ugly crowd i get to deal with every day.

like i said i''ve taken film classes, and from what i see they have extensive resources, but it''s also very competitive.

PS: from what i understand both film schools are excelent, but USC is in the ghetto and UCLA is in a very very nice (read expensive) area, basically just outside of bel-air.

living very close to UCLA is expensive. you can move farther but the commute sucks, so it''s a tradeoff.

good luck.

i also think financial aid has pretty generous allowances for film students because of the expenses they incur, but i''m not sure.

I just looked at a ton of pictures of the school, and I must admit it is a very beautiful place. I wish I could just go there right now.

My friend landed a full scholarship for USC she is going to be a director. She is 25 and in her final year.

My friend has never taken a break from school and has held down a job the whole time. It seems like a lot of very hard work. :/

She has had the opportunity to work with some celebrities already though and it looks like she may get work at the end of all this.

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Original post by dnoyc
UCLA film school has many hot girls.

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My spidy sense is tingling.

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Original post by Spider-Man
I just looked at a ton of pictures of the school, and I must admit it is a very beautiful place. I wish I could just go there right now.

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Ya, I hated high school. Once I got into college, I realized that it''s just the same stuff, but you live out of home. Edumacation is the devil. I wish that self-learning was an option through life.

Rob Loach, I''m not sure what you meant by your post, but I''m 21 and in my 4th year of college, so, umm, yeah...

I suggested UCLA/USC as a means to meeting people in the industry. Perhaps it could be done getting an entry level job with a studio and moving forward from there, but I imagine that going to either of those film schools would give you a tremendous leg up.

Regarding the additional expenses of the UCLA program, attempting to finance those projects out of your own pocket seems rather futile - unless you''re independently wealthy or don''t mind taking on that much debt. Given that film production is expensive, my guess is that how you finance those additional expenses is part of the challenge. A successful director often has to act as a producer as well as a director and those amounts aren''t so high as to be completely out of reach. Perhaps the trick is to get industry contacts who subsidize those expenses - for example, getting a record company to finance a video or an advertising firm to finance a television commercial.

I think I''m almost ready, because I suggested Sprite as being the corporate sponsor.