Free film school (without a scholarship)

Why pay to go to a film school if you can go for free?

Buy my book to find out how.




Just kidding.

I'm not selling a book on free film school. If I were, you would have to pay to get something for free. Additionally, I don't think there is such a thing as a free academic film institution. There is however a way you can get a film school education for free. As a matter of fact, it's better than film school. It's called the internet.

I probably don't need to tell you about the internet because you're probably reading this on the internet right now(really, I'm gonna skip all the common sense). But for the record, Google is your best friend. You can learn just about anything through the internet and best of all it's mostly free.

Wait, but think about it for a second... People out there(i.e. film school students) are actually paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for free stuff? There must be a reason for it?!?!?

"But you learn stuff at film school that you can't learn elsewhere."

Oh yeah? Are you seriously going to compare what one person(a film professor) has to say about film to what millions of people have to say about film? Are you going to compare the few hours you spend in class "learning" to the thousands of hours you could spend on the internet reading about film?(By the way don't spend all your time learning about film. It defeats the purpose as you won't have any time to apply that knowledge to actually make films.)

"But you can go to film school while learning from the internet."

Why spend the money in the first place?!?! Go buy a car or even a house.

"But how about all the people you can meet?"

Meeting a collaborator in film school is great. But there are hundreds of thousands of ways of meeting collaborators out of film school. Paying $200,000 to meet someone sounds like... prostitution?

"But the internet is bad quality"

Yes. Much of the internet sucks. But then much of film school sucks.
The internet has its fair share of crap. But it does have many great resources to learn about filmmaking.

Besides, film students use Google all the time to write papers.