Combine AMVs with studying?!

Kalium · Post by **Kalium** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:19 pm

JaddziaDax wrote:lots of people on this site are studying film or graphic design...

i think it goes with the territory

You'll find a number of computer science types, too.

Yes, guilty as charged.

Castor Troy · Post by **Castor Troy** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:00 pm

amvs are the reason why I haven't graduated college yet.

dj_ultima_the_great · Post by **dj_ultima_the_great** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:42 pm

Kalium wrote:
JaddziaDax wrote:lots of people on this site are studying film or graphic design...

i think it goes with the territory
You'll find a number of computer science types, too.

Yes, guilty as charged.

/me is a Spanish language major
/me feels left out

CodeZTM · Post by **CodeZTM** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:55 pm

Meh. I'm just in high school, but I'm taking college media classes during the summer and after school. I'm doing pretty well, but the level of the class just isn't up to par. I'm in the second level of the class, but I'm pretty sure the newcomers to the site could get through the material. I've talked to the professor several times about information regarding to the technical aspects of digital media, but he always just seems to ignore and tell me I'm too young to truely understand the crap. Screw him.

Anyway, I also am taking high school media courses, which aren't too bad (we just got Final Cut Studio 2.0, and I'm loving it!), and I can work in their lab two days a week in the summer. While my teacher doesn't like AMV's (I did show her Euphoria at one point, trying to convey and idea), she does know what she's talking about, and actually tries to convey the "hip" trends. While I don't think we will get into compression this year (my Senior one, woohoo!), I'm sure we will get into some audio editing, which I am looking forward to. Though the idea of learning Photoshop (when I'm already proficient with it) just isn't appealing to me this year.

-Nfp · Post by **-Nfp** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:39 am

Well, i live in Australia, concerning my Amv'ing, ive improved a lot, im looking into going to a acting/production academy, to do some stuff there with the production side, as im quite good with graphic design and being an amv editor helps as well, im still in high school, its my final year, im doing me HSC which i think is equivelant to SAT or something in America.

So yeah, this is just like an add on question, would having experience with video editing programs further my chance to getting into the field? because i feel like ive got a head start infront of other guys?

-GfN- · Post by **-GfN-** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:56 am

I'm currently finishing school and aim for studying something like communicational design at either a normal uinversity or an art one. since the study more and more takes video and fx into account I figured that'd be a rather easy thing to do for me, also since I'm a pretty good drawer...
Most of the time you need portfolios for that kind of stuff so I'm doing a lot of free style stuff in AE and in drawings (tho not specifically for the portfolio)...
I'm not trying to make some kind of career, I try to keep my social participation low so it would be rather logical to do sth where your abilities come in handy.
(I'm in germany btw, berlin for fucking location paradise ;p)

~Jannis

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:36 pm

Funky-kun wrote:Also if anyone got an idea how my hobby can help me when applying for a college/university I would be glad to hear about it. ^^

Some people will say that your hobby will help you when you apply to school.

I, however, am convinced that (in the case of US universities and colleges) your hobby will be a significant stigma on your application: an indication of your disrespect for draconian copyright restrictions, disregard for capital-A Artists, support of terrorism and Al-Qaeda in particular, knowledge of IEDs, etc.

I'd leave AMVs out of the picture, unless you can be sure that it won't come back to bite you in the ass.

Beowulf · Post by **Beowulf** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:16 pm

trythil wrote:
Funky-kun wrote:Also if anyone got an idea how my hobby can help me when applying for a college/university I would be glad to hear about it. ^^
draconian copyright restrictions, support terrorism Al-Qaeda, IEDs

Hello NSA!

Funky-kun · Post by **Funky-kun** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:03 pm

Thanks for the great responses guys

Now I'll go over the information again in order to understand everything to the fullset xD

I said US/EU only because of language restrictions -_-

And yes, if I had cheated on my SAT results, I would have a higher score

trythil, thanks for your warning

-Good for Nothing-, NfpSouljah, code_chrono, downwithpants, anubisx00, ZephyrStar,CerebralAssamite - Thanks for sharing your experience

You guys really gave me some interesting hints and extra info.

Neo_Kuleshov · Post by **Neo_Kuleshov** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 3:28 pm

if you want to be an editor for film or television, i have some suggestions.

INTERN INTERN INTERN!!!

look around your neighborhood for a post production company. if you dont find one, then go to your local news station. email them, phone them, or just walk up to the front desk and ask about internships for editing.

you CAN get a degree in something that has to do with editing- i'm getting an AA degree in media technology- but why waste the money? if you start interning soon, you'll rise the ranks enough to be at a degree level entry job BEFORE you would otherwise get out of school.

you're gonna have to do a lot of free jobs before you start getting paid, but once you work up a work sample AND you start to build up a network of friends and mentors in the industry (this is probably more important then a work sample. i cant stress enough how important networking is), and as long as you have the will to work, you'll do fine.

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