film education

After spending 4 years in a film program that I've been frustrated by I came up with this.


This school needs to be a creative atmosphere.
suggestions for how to achieve this:

1) Humble attitudes should be promoted from the teachers to the students. No more elitism because of the small size of the program.

2) Teachers should be passionate about helping young people discover themselves as artists and have come up with techniques to encourage personal investigation of artistic ethics/style.

3) Teachers need to spend more time developing lesson plans,  critiques thought up on the spot and witty comments are not enough any more. Killing time with endless reviews should not be part of the class.

4)Teachers need to inspire hope in the students. When a teacher makes bitter jokes about the industry it scares the students and makes them more competitive. Teachers should be working to show students that if they really believe in what they're doing, then that is what matters. If the student doesn't believe in their work then the teachers need to have a way to help them push themselves creatively to find something that does work.

5)Teachers need to spend more time explaining how to work within the scope of a small budget. Students should not be awarded for making a more complicated and expensive film, but one that was carefully created to creatively use resources.

6) Don't gloss over technical information. Cinematography class needs to be taught in a way that can be understood. There needs to be more training in editing that is mandatory. Students are overwhelmed by uploading footage, codecs, and transcoding, this needs to be addressed in depth.


Maybe I'll print this out and give it to the teachers at my review.