<p>I'm a sophmore in Fall 2006, hoping to get into the Business Major, but I am also very interested in the Film Studies major. I don't know if I should pursue Film Studies because I hear it is focused on the analytical and rhetorical aspects of Film rather than production. I really really hate writing papers of any kind: english papers, essays, papers on film theory, analyses of film techniques, etc, and I would rather focus on the technical and production focused elements of cinematography. Do you think I should I even bother majoring in film @ UCB? If I shouldn't, are there opportunities elsewhere such as graduate school in film production that I can pursue later on?</p>
<p>UCB film studies is most definetly not a program for movie makers.</p>
<p>If you care more about movie making than you do Haas, you might want to consider transferring to another school that has a program in Cinema or Television. </p>
<p>USC's undergrad and grad program comes to mind. </p>
<p>Cal really isn't for production of films at all, but if you like being there, there are some avenues that you can take. i met the professor of the graduate special project "Digital TV and the World" which was pretty cool. but for graduate studies in film, definitely look into USC and UCLA after berkeley. if you are interested in producing film, USC has a special producer's track for grad students, that might really draw on your business background, if that ends up as your undergrad major. but from what you've said, don't major in Film Studies. but being in berkeley, you can certainly involve yourself in the indie filmmaking of the area, they always need crew and it's a great way to learn and get experience that will give you a leg up for graduate film school</p>
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<p>You got it. The department is a film theory department, and not much one very much concerned with film production.</p>
<p>Graduate degrees in film are available in many fields such as production and writing. One needn't have a department heavy (or even at all) on film production at one's school. I think many directors were not film or film production majors.</p>