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avatar Anonymous

I need help concerning college.

Hello, I wanted to know, what college would you recommend for me, if I wanted to major in film, and write+direct movies, as a career? I am currently looking and signing up for scholarships to win, on zinch.com , and I need more info. on how to receive full scholarships to any college. And I am currently interested in Grand Valley State University.

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Top 5 in: Choosing College, SafetyTop 5 in 2 Topics		 According to collegeboard.com's major search, there are five colleges in Michigan that offer a degree in film production: Calvin, College for Creative Studies, Northern, Wayne State, and Western. Grand Valley offers and degree in Film Making and several related fields. There are other majors related to Film Production listed on collegeboard.com-- if you go to the College Match Maker program, look under Majors, and type in film, you can see what your options are.

Once you sort out your list, you want to ask some important questions when you visit the colleges. Some film programs talk a lot about the theory of making films, but students get very few chances to actually make films; other film programs give students a ton of chances to make films, but discuss theory very little; some are a mix of both. When you visit campuses, make SURE you talk to the STUDENTS in the program about this-- they will be pretty straight ahead and tell you what you need to know.

Another option for some students is to go to a film school, rather than college. Vancouver Film School is a one-year program where all you do is film-- you don't get a college degree, but you get to focus only on film. Many students will do this either before they go to college or after they get their degree as a way of concentrating on what they love. There are several such schools in the US and North America-- a Google search of film schools would probably help you there.

Finally, remember that several movie studios are opening up offices in Michigan, thanks to some tax breaks we're giving them. A little bit of digging could get you an internship, so you can start building your network of contacts in the field-- and it's never too early to start that.

In terms of scholarships, I'd go to www.finaid.org and see what they have to offer as well. It would also be a good idea to simply Google film scholarships and see what happens.

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