id like to make documentaries or films of some sort?

Question

id like to make documentaries or films of some sort because i really enjoy doing it. how would i go about majoring in somethign like this, what would be some qualifications for this job? and what schools would be good for someone looking to do this as a career?

Answer 1

Get into a good school. Preferbly near Hollywood:

FILM & MEDIA DEPARTMENTS, PROGRAMS AND LABS: AROUND THE WORLD


Ryerson School of Image Arts, Toronto - (Canada) , Film Studies
Queen's University - (Canada) Film Studies
University of Toronto - (Canada), Cinema Studies
Vancouver Film School, Multimedia Dept.
University of Waterloo, Ontario - (Canada), Film Studies
Canadian Film Centre Toronto - (Canada) , Film Studies
York University film program, Toronto - (Canada) , Film Studies
University of Victoria, BC - (Canada) , Film Studies
Victoria Motion Picture School VMP School provides professional education for film industry
media training centre located on Galiano Island, BC. - (CANADA)
Columbia Acadamy - Dealing with media/video and broadcast production - BC (canada)
U. of Copenhagen, Institute for film and media - (Denmark)
Cinema Studies - at the University of Barcelona - (Spain)
Septima Ars - film and television school in Madrid, (Spain.)
National Film School of Denmark
Silicon Graphics
Radio and TV Institute - (Finland)
Department of Journalism, Media and Comm. - Stockholm University- Sweden
Volda College, Dept. of Media & Journalism - (Norway)
Australian Film TV & Radio School
The WWW site for Media Studies @ Edith Cowan University in Perth Western Australia

The national film and television School - UK
Sheffield University (UK) Film Unit
University of Wales, Aberystwyth The Department of Theatre, Film and Television
CILECT International Liaison Centre of Schools of Cinema and Television is an organization of the world's leading schools of film and television.

L.O.A.F.S. LIBRARY OF ANNOTATED FILM SCHOOLS not only provides a comprehensive listing of film schools' web sites from around the world, it also offers something that the film schools themselves do not reveal: honest, telling reviews and shared experiences from the film students themselves.
UK Guide To Student Film Societies
MSU Turkish Film and TV Institute
University College of Dublin - Film Courses
NYU - Department of Film and Television
The London International Film School.
FilmAkademie - (Germany)
Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - (Italy)
Asian Academy Of Film & TV

Film resource, includes film schools - (Argentina)
Escuela de Cine de Chile - (Chile)
MEDIA DEPARTMENTS, PROGRAMS AND LABS: U.S.

Chapman University Department of Film and Television located just 30 miles from Los Angeles--boasts a nonlinear post-production center, a state-of-the-art television studio, and an extensive array of film production gear.

University of Chicago
Columbia College - Hollywood Giving instruction in the Cinema, Television and Media Arts to Students and Professionals from Around the World

Columbia University Bulletin, 1994-95
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University a place of encouragement for photographers, writers, filmmakers, scholars of history and literature, teachers, students, and others who struggle to pa rticipate in the lives of individuals and communities and to render these lives in documentary works of artistic, literary, and social value.
Florida St. University, School of Motion Picture, Television & Recording Arts
Full Sail One of the top schools of in the fields of digital media, film & video, and audio. In Orlando Florida.

Youthfilms.com - Great site for shorts
Interactive Cinema (part of the MIT Media Laboratory) - Cambridge, MA
The Media Lab at MIT
Telemedia, Networks, and Systems Group at MIT
RadioWeb
University of New Orleans Graduate and undergraduate film production program within the Department of Drama & Communications at the University of New Orleans.
New York Film Academy
Univ of North Texas, Dept. of RTVF Information on our BA, MA, MS programs in radio, television, film, KNTU-FM and NTTV (North Texas Television).
Orange Coast College Film/Video Department information on our program including our class schedules, recent awards, photos, and an overview of what our film/video production program covers.
Rice University , Dept. of Film/Video/Animation
NEW MEDIA AT RYERSON Home of the the NEW MEDIA program, geared to artists, educators, designers and communicators interested in using new technologies to explore new possibilities for production and distribution of media materials.
San Francisco State University, Cinema Department
CNTV - School of Cinema and Television at USC(U. of Southern California)
U. of Wisconsin Film Studies
The Motion Picture Institute of Michigan Film Studies
The Los Angeles Film School Film Studies
The University of Utah - Film Division
The University of Utah Texas - Dept. of Radio-Television-Film
Media Studies - A new department at the university of maine.
University of California at Berkley - Film Studies Program.
North Carolina School of the arts - Filmmaking.
College of Santa Fe - Moving Image Arts.
John Hopkins University - Film And Media studies.
De Anza College - two-year program in film, television production and animation.
San Diego University - School of film, television communications.
SITES & SOCIETIES MAINTAINDED AT UNIVERSITIES



Aberdeen University Cinema Club - Aberdeen, UK

Media Resources Center at Cal Berkeley Entrypage
The ERaM (Ethnicity, Racism and the Media) Programme The ERaM Programme, recently established at the University of Bradford, UK, supports two email mailing lists for the discussion and dissemination of any and all news, information, policy statements and research on issues of ethnicity, racism and the media.

Welcome to BUFS - Bath University Film Society
Center for Modern Culture & Media (Brown University)
Edinburgh University Film Society
H-FILM's Guide to Film/TV Resources (University of Houston)
Second Look Computing University of Iowa
Film and Television Gopher at Rice University
Student Video & Filmmakers' Association (SVFA) supporting the future video and filmmakers of Hawai'i.
Vanderbilt University
Utah State University- Multimedia and Distance Learning Services Multimedia and Distance Learning Services- -We provide services in multimedia design, cd-rom development, TV production, graphics design, engineering, instructional design, teleconferencing, satellite uplinks and remote field productions.

Answer 2

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