ACTUAL TESTIMONIALS FROM REAL FILM CONNECTION MENTORS AND THEIR STUDENTS
In
film school they are learning a lot of theory. For at least the first 2
years they are learning, they're not actually practical with their
hands
on on a film set. It’s just like anything else that you working hands
on you get to see the people doing what they doing, somebody takes you
under their wing and they begin to rely on you if you are a reliable
person and you are going to learn to participate. So I learned editing,
I learned how to shoot all basically on a one on one situation because
Tony would call me and say this person needs some help. So you got to
be willing to not get paid because the payment that you are getting is
the training. You are getting one on one like internship like Jesus
like I mean you learn how to be a craftsman one on one from
another craftsman and not in a big class setting with 35, 40 people. I
am not talking you out of going to traditional film school if you can
afford it..that's your business. But if you
always wanted to do film school and money was a thing holding you back
try it.
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My
name is Phil Warren. I am enrolled in the Film Connection
program. I have been in the program for over a year now. I have had the
opportunity to work staff on large budget films. And had the
opportunity to work in the camera department on a HBO television show.
And through that I did end up getting, I wanted to go through camera
department, that’s my main goal and I was able to get a job as a camera
PA on Flight of the Concorde’s HBO series. So now I have my foot in the
door in the camera department.
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My
name is John Rafael Abron. Most people call me Raf. I am a film
connection student. I started about 5 weeks ago in which I became a
production intern on a movie and then worked my way up to assistant
line producer. Film connection is a great way to start learning the
movie business because you tend to start from the ground up and the
only limitation is what you bring to the table. So the more you
can do the quicker you can advance. PLAY VIDEO
Hi.
My name is Kerry Pope and I am an audio technician at the Film and Tape
Works in Chicago. We get a lot of people that come to the studio for
the program because they want to learn about the business and how
things work. The first thing that we do when people come to the studio
for the program is we show them how to work all the equipment and we
teach them a little bit about the technical side of things in the
video and film production world. After that we let them sit behind the
scenes on actual shoots and live shots and what not and then we
actually let them use the equipment so that they can have on hand
training in an actual real life shoot. And the program’s worked out
very well for a lot of them. I have actually worked with a few people
that came to the studio for the program, after they were finished with
the program on freelance jobs that they got hired by certain producers
in this city. So I think that the program will work out very well for
anybody that takes it and has the dedication to really learn the
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