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.

f you are someone who wants to become a filmmaker, Film School should be a place of joy for you. Because it not only equips you with the basic film making skills, but it also serves to shape your passion.

Even through this blog is named “Finding Work After Film School,” I’ve actually found my first job, on a professional set, while I was in Film School. It happened during the two last months, while nothing was going on. I spent most of the last two months mainly working on school graduates sets as a Production Sound Mixer. Sometime in December 08, I got a call from Will Meadows, sound instructor at VFS, about a production needing a boom operator.

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.

It’s difficult to resume what you learn in a year into a couple of paragraph. What film school did is giving me the knowledge of everything. I didn’t chose a program in which I was only specializing in one domain, I took one that gave me knowledge of everything so that I could later on make the choice.