Posted on 11/11/2023 11:12:07 PM PST by Pocketdoor
Looking for Freeper advice. My son is applying to colleges that have a Film major. He wants to be a producer. He wants to start his own business. We are in California, and you wouldn't think that CA is veteran friendly, but California does grant tuition waivers for all California public colleges for 0%+ disabled Vets. I'm afraid that some more liberal colleges will require the Covid VAX. I'm adamant about my kids not getting that vax. Any Freepers in the Film industry? Is there such a thing as a conservative or semi-conservative public college in California?
Claremont McKenna is conservative, but with the competition, a more prestigious film school would be better. Unfortunately, they’re all liberal.
Sorry, Claremont is a private school.
Thanks for your reply. Are you in the film industry? Maybe I can pick your brain? :)
I’m the Vet, he is my dependent.
Does anyone know how Cal Poly Humboldt is?
Regards,
I’m sorry... I should have said that California waives college tuition to disabled Veteran “Dependents”. I’m to old to go back to college... Though it might be fun to take a class here and there. I might need to check into that also. This is more about my son and film college.
I totally get it. LOL! Impossible. Never hurts to ask though.
As a semi-retired film and broadcast TV Producer from Colorado’s Trey Parker and Matt Stone generation (CU Boulder), my advice about public universities in CA would be obsolete and outdated. However, the top producers often come from business school backgrounds while the top creatives were writers and directors who simple retired into being Producers. They are, usually, two different skill sets, but the term itself has become vague, if not ubiquitous without much substance these days. In any case, If I were to do it all over again, I’d skip the expensive college film schools and invest in good books per script writing, budgeting, directing, cinematography, cgi, and tv/film distribution (which has and still is rapidly changing) . If he wants to go the business route, jump in as a PA, then 2nd Assistant Director, then Associate Producer, then Producer. If he is more of a creative, then learn to master screen writing. Great writers can call their own shots in the high end studio business. Unfortunately, I fear too many kids get sucked into the Steven Spielberg / George Lucas USC anecdote of success, which is outdated and was a completely different and thriving industry era. Today, talented kids can make an entire feature on their phones, with a cheap NLE software on their tablets - with amazing effects! That’s to say, the talent pool is huge these days. It’s late, so I’m sorry this is a bit of a ramble, but if he goes the PA route, he may message me and I’ll share tips on how to get work and stand out to the producers after he’s hired.
PS - I wouldn’t worry too much about the campus politics and leftist activities. The film and music departments, while likely filled with Marxists, are schools within the larger noise. These departments and individual classes are too busy teaching tech, theory, and fundamentals of the craft. They’re not like the liberal arts classes that have degraded into indoctrination studies. But, again, my reference is from the 80’s. I would just think that even the most proggy kids would raise hell if their film studies teachers went off curriculum.
UCLA.
We are in this world, not if it and liberals cannot move us.
CSUN if he can’t get in to UCLA.
Santa Monica College if he can’t get in to a university.
Sell him on a dual major in finance or the like and he’ll strengthen his credentials, have a “backup” qualification, and at least have a little exposure to a less leftist branch of what will inevitably be a leftist college.
Thanks for replies!!! They are eye opening to me. Please post more when you get a chance.
I never even heard of CSUN! Thank you for the that!
Your reply was extremely helpful!! Please keep rambling on!! Your input is highly regarded to me. Thank You.
I will try to push a dual major. Thank you for bring that up.
I went to college for music. I wanted to be the next John Williams / James Horner. Believing this was America in the 21st Century there was no reason not to pursue my God given talents and dreams. What I learned in college completely contradicted those beliefs.
I came out of graduation having learned that music college was not there to teach me how to skillfully evoke every state on the emotional spectrum. They were there to discourage students and forbid everything that spoke of humanity and beauty in accordance with the national accrediting board’s secret anti-human agenda. They were there to murder my talents and dreams. I couldn’t touch a piano for a whole year after earning my degree because of what the program did to me. Every accredited college has the same program.
Furthermore, the entertainment field is oversaturated with talent and blocked by satanic gatekeepers who have the ability to stall one’s career unless you profess loyalty like Faust did with the devil. After graduating I was faced with nothing but locked doors from every company I asked to hire me.
From all of this I learned if I was going to do anything musical I would have to build it myself. There’s nothing I needed to learn about the practical side of music that I couldn’t have learned from the internet years sooner without the psychological abuse of college. Asking some authority figure in the arts to teach you, give you a license and hire you is now an outdated, century old way of thinking and a deadly soul trap these days. If you’re in college and you begin experiencing resistance from your professors regarding skills you want to develop, this is a sign to get out. Get out!
There’s a veteran in CA that owns his own production company called Hammr Productions. I only know who he is because his wife had a crafting youtube channel called Melanie Ham that I watch. She died of kidney cancer a couple of years ago. Anyway, might be worth it to ask him for advice. He made a documentary about his wife called Made With Melanie that is excellent. Chronicles their journey with cancer.
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