Interested in Film Major

College Majors Visual Arts and Film Majors
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<p>Hi everyone! I'm currently a sophomore in high school and lately I've been researching a lot of colleges and universities and careers. After watching a television show a while back, I got interested in the idea of screenwriting. I love to write and I'm really creative, and I started to play around with the idea of being a screenwriter or working with film. I've never thought of it before so I have no experience with film making, cameras, or basically theater, but I'm really interested. The thing that worries me if I get a Film study major is that I won't find a job. I know working in the film industry is really competitive, but I really want to try it in college. Right now in high school I feel like there aren't many opportunities for me. I can take theater and journalism in my next two years, but I feel like maybe I should take something over the summer involving creative writing or screenwriting.</p>

<p>Okay so to sum it all up... I'm very interested in film production and making scripts and collaborating for tv shows, but I don't know where to start since I'm in high school. I don't know if it would be a plausible major. I don't want to be jobless when I get out of college, but I'm willing to work my way up! What college would be best for me? If anyone is pursuing anything in screenwriting or film please share your story and how you got started and please give me some advice. I love the idea of me one day being a screenwriter for tv shows and working with many different people on projects but I don't know where to start or to keep my dream alive.</p>

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<p>Luckily, screenwriting doesn’t require a degree or other credential. It’ll take a long time to develop your craft but you do this by writing, editing, sharing your work, making contacts. You have to be a bit pushy. But the most important thing is to write, write and write. </p>

<p>At college, regardless of major, you can write for the campus tv station, film making clubs, the newspaper, the web, theatre clubs. You can get alot of work shown but again you need to get your name and work out there to be given the opportunities. I always recommend that people who want a specific career to see how those they admire got there. </p>

<p>Life experience is really important. Getting to know how people tick. There’s the saying about writing about what you know. Experience life so you can write about it. </p>

<p>Just looking at writers for The Simpsons, majors include mathmatics, English, biochemistry, history, art education, creative writing, cognitive neuroscience, physics, a PhD in Inorganic Chemistry…but they’ve written since college often for the newspaper. </p>

<p>So, ask yourself if there are any other majors you’d enjoy studying that might be a little more work orientated giving yourself a bit of reassurance and a day job which would allow you to spend your free time writing. If you MUST do writing, keep to an English or Creative writing degree rather than anything too film/media specific. It keeps your options open.</p>