[quote name='lordwow']Ya, it does not pay horribly well. That's partially why I've been taking marketing jobs as well so if worse comes to worse...
NU's film program is not strong, you are correct. And many people who came here for it left. But I personally stayed for two reasons:
1) I've been able to help start a Television Station here and sat on numerous boards and committees with university higherups to get things done, including giving all on-campus housing cable television. An experience that I no doubt could not replicate at an established film school.
2) The co-ops/internships have given me three oppertunities to work for 6 months in the field, so I'm graduating with a year and a half full-time work experience next year.
I have some friends who go to BU for film, and I wasn't really that impressed with their film program. I'd say it's about a step above ours, but it's a far cry from Emerson's (and Emerson is a far cry from FSU/NYU/USC (and all the other Cali schools who have really great programs)).
And a little interesting note for those of you who are wondering why I didn't just go to Emerson or another film school. Of my television station's original 6 person executive board, 3 people had applied to Emerson, and been rejected outright because they had no previous film experience... in high school. My high school had almost no programs outside of the traditional academics, so I went into my major with 0 experience in the field. Kinda sucks that they want a portfolio of your film/TV work before you even get there. But that's the way it goes.
Another neat thing: Joe Castiglione (The Red Sox Radio Personality) teaches a class called Sports Broadcasting at NU. I took it last year and it was really a cool class.[/QUOTE]
Chapman, SCAD (where my cousin goes
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), NYFA, Ohio, Ithaca, etc. FSU is insane. 15 kids a year IIRC. They pay for everything you do too.
My cousin didnt get into FSU's program. He got into SCAD with a pretty nice $10K a year scholarship despite average academics. He did send them his portfolio which was QUITE good.
That's pretty cool about Joe. I gotta figure out a game plan to try to get an internship with the Red Sox. I took marketing at Temple University here this past summer and we got to spend an hour or two in the Phillies front offices talking to all the higher ups there. I asked about internships and all that. Basically, they both happened to NOT be business majors (one was chemistry, the other english). They said a business background cant hurt you and the most important thing is to get your name out there and apply for internships. So I guess that's what i'll do
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