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We're NOT
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What We Do
(How Our Film School Alternative Works)
Our whole purpose at Film Connection is to provide you with the
training, experience and knowledge to make you employable in the film
business.
Everything we do and our entire curriculum revolves around this
mission. With this in mind, we believe the following are the core
fundamentals that make the Film Connection Film School Alternative
special.1) Experience.
No classroom can duplicate the stress, the deadlines, the pressures of
working on a real film shoot. If accepted at Film Connection you
will become an apprentice at a real production company, working on real
film shoots where you'll learn by doing and solve
the Catch 22 of how can you get a job when you have no experience--but
how
can you get experience if you have no job?
2) Right Place at The Right Time. Another advantage of having your "classroom" being a real film set or studio shoot is that you are apprenticing under professional producers, directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, editors--all the people who are in a position to find you work in the film industry.
3) It's Who You Know. Not only will you meet lots of players in the film industry by attending your Film Connection real world "classroom," (a real film set or studio shoot) but since the Film Connection has hundreds of film mentors around the United States and Canada, we're networked in--and so are you.
2) Right Place at The Right Time. Another advantage of having your "classroom" being a real film set or studio shoot is that you are apprenticing under professional producers, directors, screenwriters, cinematographers, editors--all the people who are in a position to find you work in the film industry.
3) It's Who You Know. Not only will you meet lots of players in the film industry by attending your Film Connection real world "classroom," (a real film set or studio shoot) but since the Film Connection has hundreds of film mentors around the United States and Canada, we're networked in--and so are you.
If you were to take a poll of everyone working in the film industry, you would find that over 92% of people employed in the film business got their first job by just doing it. And even greater percentage of people employed in the film industry would tell you two additional things:
1) their resume or degree never got
them work.
2) everything they learned about filmmaking, they learned in the real world, not in film school.
2) everything they learned about filmmaking, they learned in the real world, not in film school.
So, how do directors and producers get their first job?
Many were in the right place at the right time. Whether you want to be the next Quentin Tarantino or just want to make a nice living working behind the scenes in the film industry, the Film Connection Film School Alternative can help. With our Film School Alternative you get to learn how to be a director, producer, actor, dp, editor or more as you make connections in the real world. Think about it, where are you more likely to get hired--in a film school classroom, or on an actual shoot on a real production. While we don't have the numbers, we think it's plain common sense--you don't get jobs in the film business sitting in a clasroom. Let's be frank, if you have a relative named Steven Spielberg you don't need us. For the rest of you, the Film Connection is that inside connection.
Film Connection Film Institute will hook you up with your own personal mentor, in the skill set and discipline that appeals to you the most, and for six months your mentor will teach you the skills you need, provide you with the experience you have to have and become your inside man for hooking you up with job openings.
Do You Guarantee Success?
Now, does this guarantee every Film Connection graduate a job? Absolutely NOT!!! Let's repeat that, Film Connection does NOT guarantee you a job. What we do guarantee is that we will put you in the right place at the right time with the right skill set. HOWEVER, if you have not impressed your mentor he’s not going to risk his reputation by recommending you for a job opening with one of his industry friends—it’s just not going to happen. On the flip side; if you’ve spent the last six months impressing your mentor with your attitude, your enthusiasm, your quest for knowledge and improvement and have proved yourself invaluable, and have completed our course curriculum, who else is he going to recommend? (Some film student in a classroom he doesn't know, or you, whom he has worked closedly with over the last six months!)
What the Film Connection really does is elevate the playing field you’re on--it's like playing with loaded dice. If you’ve listened and learned from your mentor and impressed him, you’re in the perfect position to take advantage of being in the right place at the right time with an introduction and all the real world experience you need to get started.
The Bottom Line
For 25 years, The Film Connection has put students in situations and created opportunities for them to learn by doing, gaining them real-world experience that counts for something in the industry--all the while allowing the student a chance to impress the very folks who can offer them jobs in film. In other words, we give our students all the tools they need to succeed and put them in the right place at the right time--and that's something no traditional films school can say. You will take our course curriculum which will teach you everything a director, producer, screenwriter, actor, editor, etc. needs to know to make that award winning first film a reality, while we help you introduce yourself to actual working filmmakers who can hire you even before you graduate.
Learn Filmmaking from a
Professional Filmmaker
What We Do (5 Minutes)
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This 5 minute
movie takes you through the Recording Connection Film School
Alternative method of education in which you get exposed to real world
situations, hands-on experience and multiple career opportunities.
