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.

There’s a reality that people don’t often get while they are in film school. There’s also the fact that while you’re in film school, you can accomplish a lot of things that will help you out later in your career. Here’s a great article. Even if it’s dated from 1998, it’s very much relevant now.

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.