<p>I realize that Tulane is by no means one of the schools to attend if you are wanting to pursue film, but I am interested in the university. I know Tulane offers Film Studies, but do they have anything like Film Production?</p>
<p>Considering the fact Tulane is in New Orleans, there are already a good amount of film opportunities.</p>
<p>I still want to be making films throughout my college career, so what do you guys think?</p>
<p>I am already applying to USC SCA and UT RTF. Thanks in advance for all of your help.</p>
<p>Well, I won’t compare Tulane to USC or NYU (have you looked into that school?) for film production. That would be foolish, I suppose. I am not familiar with UT for that subject. But, as you already seem to know, New Orleans is a hotbed of film making these days.</p>
<p>So while I don’t know a lot about film production opportunities at Tulane, I can suggest a couple of resources that might be able to give you a lot more information. First, there was this article in the New Wave not long ago about Alan Valasquez, a Tulane staffer who produced a film. [Tulane</a> Staff Member Screens Film](<a href=“https://tulane.edu/news/newwave/101012_tomorrow.cfm]Tulane”>https://tulane.edu/news/newwave/101012_tomorrow.cfm) I bet he could provide you with excellent information about Tulane’s production capabilities. e-mail him. <a href=“mailto:avelasqu@tulane.edu”>avelasqu@tulane.edu</a></p>
<p>My daughter was interested in film too, not as a major but definitely a part of her studies and internship focus. We looked at Tulane after we had already seen USC and felt it was very much like a miniature version…similar climate and feel to the campus but with a lot fewer students. That night we took a “ghost” tour of the French Quarter (which is a lot of fun BTW) and ran right into the on-location filming of Vampire Diaries. We walked by trucks with the NOLA Films logo. My daughter realized she had stumbled onto something…NOLA is regularly on the top 10 list of filming locations in the US…usually in the top 3…so here maybe she could find a very cool internship without competing with the thousands of kids who flock to schools like USC and Chapman in LA looking for opportunities. And it’s not like a resume with NOLA film experience would not be understood in LA if that is where you end up eventually. Something to think about!</p>
<p>Absolutely true, sportsforher. You have it dead-on. Obviously you haven’t had any reason to follow the Tulane and New Orleans news items for the last 5 years+ like I have, but if you had you would know that there have been numerous articles about the film industry in New Orleans (Hollywood South or something like that is the nickname), and the films being shot on campus. Mylie Cyrus did a movie that had numerous scenes on campus (So Undercover I think it was called), and a movie coming out August 16 called The Butler (Forest Whitaker, Robin Williams, James Marsden, many others) was also filmed on campus for a lot of scenes. I think JL dorm was used a lot, but not sure.</p>
<p>But your argument about less competition for internships and the like is similar to what I tell people interested in politics and trying to decide between schools in DC and Tulane. While obviously you cannot beat those schools for access to people famous in the area and the number of opportunities, you also cannot beat them for the number of people competing for those jobs. And of course politics exists everywhere. So while film production may not exist everywhere, it certainly does exist in New Orleans.</p>
<p>As I am sure you saw, there is a film studies minor available at Tulane, although she might find that double majoring is not too difficult if she really wants to.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of your responses. I really appreciate it.</p>
<p>I contacted Dr. Blue, and I am meeting with her today to discuss the Digital Media Production program. This is a major but requires that a student take an additional major (mine would be Business).</p>
<p>Yes, it is called a coordinate major. My D is in the same boat with Asian studies. Not much of a difference I don’t think. I guess they just don’t have the critical mass of professors and courses in those areas to make it an independent major yet. Having a major like business to go along with it isn’t a bad thing for sure.</p>
<p>That’s great that you got things set up with Prof. Blue so quickly. Let us know what you think after you talk with her.</p>
<p>I just met with Dr. Blue. It was a pretty informative session. We talked about the program… everything ranging from equipment to the business side of filmmaking.</p>
<p>I will definitely be applying to Tulane; however, if I do get into USC’s SCA program, I would choose to go there.</p>
<p>Not sure if you are still looking in sometimes, but I just stumbled across the following on Andrew Farrier’s blog. Andrew is the “specialty” admissions advisor for art, music and architecture.</p>