Ugh.

[saderox]

Just... just ugh.
I am in my second month of this course (Film Making), and I'm beginning to have second thoughts. Really, the only thing keeping me to this course is the promise of a degree at the end of it, which when I think on it a little bit harder is almost pointless seeing as "It's not what you know but who you know" in this kinda business

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[felixize]

Oh man, we really need to have a good chat sometime - what you're saying is an exact mirror of how I felt about my course last year... And to a degree, what I still think about certain modules and people.

Hm... I'd say for the moment not to worry about it too much. It's first year and classically, ALL first year productions are godawful. But that's why you're there, right? To learn and grow from it all. If it doesn't work out you've got the leverage to improve next time.

To me, film theory will always be an absolute can of garbage; the fact I can get a 2.1 in it and not believe a bloody word I'm writing says everything, I think. And there's always going to be people who believe in the drivel their fed by dead, French 'auteur's' etc etc...
You just gotta take the higher ground, ESPECIALLY if you're doing a course in 'Film MAKING'. Audience accessibility is the key, and if you want to make the biggest money you go for the biggest audience; they so happen to be the ones that can't tell Weine from Welles.

Why can't they? BECAUSE IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER.

Anyway, it gets better in second year, for what it's worth - second TERM, even. At least personally I felt less like I wanted to kill myself, haha.

[felixize]

Oh, I'm not saying that the theory is entirely useless, because it's definitely applicable for people wanting to get a break in avant guard cinema or make a statement or do art house, and I think it's certainly affected the way films are made today. I also think that used correctly the idea of mis-en-scene can be very clever, it really can let the audience take more away from a movie than they initially thought, but it's not the be all and end all of film making and quoting in it a pretentious manner makes you seem more like a douche than a scholar... Idek.

Man, I don't even know what I'm saying, sorry! Hahaha...