On the first day of school, I remember what someone told my classmates and me; “You’ll get out with as much as you put in.” That person was David Hauka, at the time Head of Department of the film program at VFS. Little did I know that this simple, but so brilliant, line would change my life the way it did.

One year ago, I was a young man living in Eastern Canada, wanting to make film, but without any experience, deep knowledge or even any opportunities. I still wanted to make movies, but without any of this I didn’t know how I would ever be able to do so. After looking around and looking at what many other filmmakers did, I decided to look for a film school to teach me what I needed.

The chances of you getting paid work just after leaving film school are very low, so now you need to get work on set.

Here’s a clip of a TV show that aired on Fox a while back, called “Life After Film School”. The show was about some Film school students interview filmmakers to learn about the reality of Hollywood. If you are living in the United States, you can watch the show online on Hulu.com. If not, you’ll have to do like the rest of us and wait for Hulu to become international.

picture by Hulu.com

I often talk about doing free shows and getting connections. Now, I’m not making this whole concept up, it’s really how it works. Some people, however, don’t seem to understand this, as you can read in this article.

I don’t get impressed easily. I think when it comes to be impressed, what I need to see happen is something that has never happened before – and this 137 page Online course has to be amazing.

Making a CV for the film industry probably seems quite similar to what you would find in a normal CV for anyother job, but here’s the difference explained by Skillset.org.

One of the thing that most of the people, when they graduate from a film school, assume is that they know everything about everything. Well, it’s not the case. As soon as your out the door, you’re in a total different world where people do things really differently than they did in film school.