FILM CAREERS AND JOB PLACEMENT
The most important thing to you, the student, is can we help you jump start a career in the film business. We strongly believe that we can. First of all, over 72% of our graduates land a job in the film industry--many of them before they even graduate. After all, it stands to reason, our mentor/apprentice film schools put you in front of the very people who have jobs to offer: working professionals.
Do traditional film schools get paid work for their students paid work in the business business before or after graduation? Most of these large, traditional schools (charging 30-120k) graduate many thousands of graduates every year. Once these students have matriculated, they enter a the highly competitive film and video job market looking for gainful employment. These unfortunate grads soon come to the realization that with no REAL WORLD FILM OR VIDEO EXPERIENCE they are pretty much useless to just about every production company in the world.
They
also realize that their diploma is pretty much useless when it comes to
getting them hired. We aren't trying to sound negative but the
truth
is what it is. Think about how hard it is these days
to get a regular job at say an corporate office or even at a local club
or bar? Well as you probably already
know, it's a thousand times more difficult to get a job in the film and
video industries! Why is that? Well there are a few reasons:First, the film business is what we call a "premiere job." By this, we mean that it's a dream career that everyone would love to have. Think about it, where would you rather work? In a Dilbert-like cubicle or on a film set? In a back-stabbing government office environment or on location? That said, it probably doesn't take too much imagination to realize that a career in film or video is a career that millions of people want. What that means is, YOU ARE COMPETING WITH MORE PEOPLE FOR FEWER FILM INDUSTRY JOBS. More people because it is a dream job, fewer job opportunities because once someone lands one, they almost never give it up.
Second, the film business does NOT, we repeat DOES NOT, work like the rest of the nation's job market. In other words, when a position in the film business becomes available, employers do not hire from outside the industry, they almost always HIRE from with-IN the business. In other words, you don't find help wanted ADS for film jobs or careers in the local newspaper or on Craigslist. Instead, they ask their friends and colleagues in the film business (other directors, producers, editors, camera operators) if they know any hard working, qualified candidates they would recommend? If you were to talk to 10 professional producers or directors and ask them if they have ever hired an assisstant from a traditional film school or through an AD in the newspaper all of them will undoubtably tell you the same thing: NO, I rarely, if ever, hire from the traditional schools or ADS in newspapers. The people I hire are either people that I already know and trust or people that have come recommended by other film professionals.
So the obvious question is: if all
the jobs in the film
business are
awarded to people that film employers already know, how do I get to
know these film professionals that d the hiring? ANSWER: YOU MUST GET
YOUR
FOOT IN THE DOOR OF A REAL FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY and PROVE YOURSELF
to be hard working
and qualified. But wait a minute you're probably saying, "I'm not
qualified yet, I have little or no film production experience!!"
It's the proverbial Catch-22. How does one get trained, get in the
door,
and get him or herself the opportuity to prove oneself? You certainly
don't achieve this by signing up for a traditional film school that is
charging
60 thousand dollars or more for you to sit in a classroom. No, you go
to The Film connection Film School where your classroom is on a
real set or in a real film production company and your teacher is the
same guy or gal that you one day
hope will hire you. Make sense? 
Now, we do NOT guarantee jobs, no one can
gurantee you a
job, but think
about it and then ask yourself, "With what program am I more likely to
get hired in the real world? A program that puts me in a real,
professionally run, working film or video production company or in a
college classroom isolated on some
college campus? Film Connection Film School is the school that
gives you the opportuity to be trained by working film professionals.
It is
the only school that also introduces you to people that might just
need, or know someone that needs, an assistant in the future. Ask yourself, in terms of training, connections, and tuition price, do other schools even compare with The Film Connection Film School?
We also have Job Placement Assistance that is included with your regular priced tuition. That's right, for a year after graduation, we will help you to find paid work in the film business by actively showing your resume to film industry professionals and keeping our ears tuned to openings that you are qualified for.
Phil
is a Film Connection student who loves our film school
program because it enabled him to get his foot in the door with actual
film production companies while he was getting valuable hands-on
training.
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