<p>Admitted:</p>
<p>RISD
Emerson
Sarah Lawrence
BU
Bard
SVA</p>
<p>I am looking to major in Film....</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>any film specialists here?</p>
<p>there are ton, thread title could be the issue. put “film” in the title so they’ll know</p>
<p>It depends what you’re looking for. Emerson is very hands on and practical.
Bard and Sarah Lawrence are very liberal arts based so you could get a good foundation in writing which can’t hurt.
I don’t really think of film (except for Emerson) when I look at your list.</p>
<p>What about RISD Film? RISD is highly regarded in Arts but yet does not rank high as a film school vs NYU, USC, Northwestern, UCLA etc. Could someone explain this? I think my preference would be to go to RISD because of the location and the fact that I could take courses at Brown.</p>
<p>That’s because RISD is more known for design. A lot of animators come out of there as well. But Gus Van Sant went there. There would be a very arty/indie feel to it I’m sure. It all depends on what YOU are looking for.</p>
<p>I would suggest SVA or BU. SVA for location. and BU because I heard it was good…yeah. </p>
<p>but i agree with drae27 in that i don’t think ‘film student’ when i look at your list. It seems like a ‘graphic design’ or ‘photography’ list.</p>
<p>RISD’s Film/Animation/Video department does have some excellent facilities and faculty members. The program is very hands-on. (I know this from my son’s roommate, who was an FAV major.) But it’s a relatively small department at RISD compared to Industrial Design, Graphic Design, Illustration, etc. and I think it is better known for the animators it has produced than filmmakers.</p>
<p>Besides Gus Van Sant, Seth McFarlane (“Family Guy”) and Martha Coolidge, who has directed many movies and done lots of series television (including “Weeds” and “CSI”) are also graduates of RISD’s FAV. Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, who created “Avatar:The Last Airbender” series on Nickelodeon, are also RISD graduates – but not from FAV but other departments (Illustration, I think).</p>
<p>Bu accepts over 50% of their applicants as opposed to 29% for RISD.</p>
<p>Bard, Bard, Bard and Bard.</p>
<p>Bad, Bad, Bad and Bad.</p>
<p>accessibility to/from the public transportation, students’ attitude toward touring families, drugs and smoking habit (paved with cigaret butts) physical inactivity, general skin condition (my kid voted it pimplest LAC) odd dress choices (some sort of fringed toga and mantle, faded peeling Disney or WB character sweats worn as some sort of statement by blob-y boys and girls ) food, dorms, ground conditions (muddiest LAC)</p>
<p>^^ all these means it’s really the GREAT “place to think” (their selling line)</p>
<p>Bears
Does this mean you didn’t like it LOL!</p>
<p>we (we!!!) have this love-hate issue with Bard camelot… long story you don’t want to know.</p>
<p>Have to take issue with bears and dogs. Not saying that isn’t what they experienced on their visit - but my son is a freshman there, and I’ve visited a couple of times - and, except for the mud, I can’t agree with the assessment. Are you genuinely saying you wouldn’t send your kid to a school where the kids have pimples? Or if some kids are overweight?</p>
<p>Btw. their selling line is absolute truth - it is a great place to think, and to share one’s ideas with peers and professors. And my son doesn’t smoke cigarettes, or drink, or do drugs - and he’s over the top happy there.</p>
<p>As for public transportation - he doesn’t have a car, and he would like one, and he would like the shuttles to run more often and have more stops, but he manages to get where he needs to.</p>
<p>As for the OP and film - Bard’s film program is one of the strongest in the country.</p>
<p>we ( we!!) are visual people, not brain nor good mannered people. we see what we see, and that is what we saw.
pimples are my kid’s obsession being suffered since 7th grade.
Have you noticed how kids are less pimply these days after someone invented accutane? It has awful side effect but hey, what is more important? Today’s popularity and dates or tomorrow’s wrecked kidney, liver or unborn baby?
If there are more / less pimply kids means something that represents in its student body. I am not saying what is better than what, average Bard students’ skin condition being “bad” than other top LACs does not mean Bard is lesser school. It just maybe attract different kind of boys (more prominent in pimples than girls) and healthier girls (more prominent in girls’shapes)
Yet, it kind of downs on you if all your coworkers are sloppy unkept but high spirited unique dressing attitude opinionated people you have to deal with everyday— let’s forget for now the fact you are the one of them.
I sort of see that why prospective kids in other forums repeatedly ask if guys/ girls are hot in certain school, and usually bashed by right minded folks, but amused and debated by many. It is a part of the puzzle, especially so in arts major.
PS
My kid was genuinely worried since the school was middle of nowhere, he thought kids won’t be able to go to drug store for acne creams, or there are no drug stores near by.</p>
<p>Drugs
I knew a kid went in clean came out coke addict his good old mom had no idea until his best buddy ODed and dead.
just be careful, it usually happens Soph spring semester.
Suppose it is everywhere no way to be sure-sure especialy if parents never done anything of that sort themselves, I won’t know flour or sugar from coke
unless lick them… maybe still can’t tell.</p>
<p>Bears bears bears…
The drugs are everywhere and it is not fair to label one school a “drug” school and one not as they are everywhere. The personal style and behavior at a school can be misinterpreted and/or just depend on who you run into. I’m uncomfortable getting into this which school is this or that as it can mislead people so my advice to anyone is this:</p>
<p>Take a look for yourself and see how you feel, don’t go by someone else’s experience</p>
<p>Some schools have better “reputations” than others but don’t expect a school’s name on your resume to guarantee you a job at graduation or a better life, your life is what you make of it.</p>
<p>And lastly, for every “famous” or “successful” person who came from a certain college or school remember that there are many many more who aren’t “famous” or “successful” who attended the same school.</p>
<p>This is not to say that some schools won’t have stronger programs than others and that’s a legitimate thing to look into but it’s all what you make of it and there are many people particularly I think in the arts who came into “success” through the back door, from a school with a lesser reputation, because they worked hard, were persistent and/or had a vision or a message that they were driven to deliver.</p>
<p>It’s talent but it’s also hard hard work and the ability to recognize a break when one comes your way.
You own those qualities, not the school.
And I direct that particularly to those who maybe didn’t get into their dream school, or got in but are finding it unaffordable. The road to “success” (and you can define that) is not determined by the school you attend as much as by what you do with what you have.</p>
<p>You guys don’t sweat what “Bears and Dogs” said about Bard. He didn’t like RISD because the people were TOO PRETTY…so you can’t win with him. RISD is a really good film school. My daughter loves to go see the senior projects every year and she is pretty hard to impress. My advice is too look for a great fit for you. Your in the driver seat now. You get to pick. Do your research and visit. Its funny how quickly you can get an impression when you show up.</p>
<p>gawd mom, you remember… it was a compliment, you said you are surprised at D gotten accepted, so I said your girl must be pretty and smart, and you thought it was a bit of an insult, as if someone said she is pretty, then she have to be dumb or has less talent.
wow your post counts are still not fixed, by now you must be a legend !!</p>