<p>Hey everyone...I need a little advice. I'm currently in my third year
of college on the east coast and want to get into the entertainment
industry upon graduation. I have been looking into all sorts of
programs to do this coming fall semester, but everything runs into a
dead end. I was wondering if anyone could help me out. I would like
to spend this fall semester in Los Angeles doing either an Internship
or a semester of classes. The only school I came across out there
that offers short term courses is the New York Film Academy at
Universal Studios and I'm not sure how good it is after reading
reviews on other boards(it sounds like a scam/too expensive for what
you get). Are there any other programs out there like this one that
offer 8 or 12 week or full semester courses during the fall that you
know of? Also do you think it would be better to do an internship at
a production compony/TV station? The only thing with the internships
is that you don't find out if you get them into lat summer and I live
on the other side of the country, I need to know sooner to schedule
things with my school and for housing out in Los Angeles. Any info
will help, I'm currently doing a radio internship and love it but want
to get into TV or Film.</p>
<p>This is just an approach, in case you've not yet tried it.</p>
<p>Some colleges offer entertainment internship semsters. Offhand, I've heard that Emerson and Ithaca colleges do something in LA for their own students</p>
<p>I wonder: Would they take you for a semester, charge you their money, and then the semester could get preapproved for transferred college credit to wherever you now attend?</p>
<p>Sometimes, when schools want tuition and funds to flow in, they'll bend a rule to include you, as long as it doesn't detract from their own students' opportunities. This happens in "Study Abroad" programs, for example.
Perhaps, if you ask at the level of a dean or whatever, you can interest someone in this idea.</p>
<p>Also, explore Chapman University in Orange, CA.</p>
<p>That's a private uni (so may be more flexible than USC). Chapman has the Dodge School of Film. On their website, they pride themselves on their industry contacts. Maybe they have courses or a program to attach yourself to for a term?</p>
<p>Problem is, it's hard to gain complete admission to the 4-year school (8% accepted) but that's not what you're asking about. When I phoned there, I had to wait while they did their "we're impossible to get into" monologue; seems to come out in auto-pilot with these film production programs lately!</p>