I don't want to go the normal route in life. I don't want to go to a traditional four year college, And I am love with film. Making, editing, watching, scripting, storyboarding, creating, cameraing, filming, doing the soundwork, seeing an idea become a solid, tangible, watchable object... I love it.
I want to have a career in film. Does anyone here have one? I am thinking of going in the directing side more than the editing and effects side, although I would definitely take one of those jobs if there was one offered. I love the editing almost as much as the directing, But I havn't done a whole lot of film yet, so I don't know just what niche I would want to fit into.
I am, of course, open to any of the supporting careers in any type of film (get your mind out of the gutter). I would do anything on a movie-set with good income and be willing to work my way up from a "nothing" job like fetching coffee to get in on the ground level if it must happen. There are many jobs in film, right? Every major movie has 10 minutes of credits for all the people working on it, and think of all the commercials, news broadcasts, events videography, and normal TV shows (just thinking about it right now, I would probably rather do a TV show rather than something else, job security if its good, I suppose).
Is wanting to do something in film a viable idea? If anyone here has or is in a film/video career, do you enjoy it, and is there a good chance for succeeding at a normal american household income or better?
What should I look for in a film school? should I even bother with it at all or just go on to trying to get a job in film and work my way up?
You can look at my terrible work that I have just done in my spare time by clicking on the link in my sig. But be warned, some of that stuff isn't even mine and the stuff that is is not my best work. My current "best" work (which was still modest, but it was solidly scripted and had good videographical elements) was the first film which i did in high school video productions, but the worse and wrong version of it got exported off the school computer onto the classroom distributed DvD, and the good version was deleted when the teacher did a wipe of the hard drive to make room for the next semester's classes videos.
So give me some information. I am going to make more small scale film when school stops sucking up every minute of my life making me learn currently-useless-but-apparently-useful-later-in-my-life information. I have some beautiful plots in my mind (then again who doesn't) and maybe some music video's in the works. We'll see. I just want to talk to someone who won't immediately shoot my dream down as "inherently impossible" and "wanting something that nobody actually gets".