film school program<\/a> offers what you need; you need a director school, one that will focus on your particular needs as a film director. Most film schools can teach you the ins and outs and technical skills of working in film, but you need more than that as a film director. You need a different type of training, one that will equip you with the skills you need in order to lead.<\/p>\nWHY YOU NEED MORE<\/h4>\n
A film director doesn\u2019t just need to know the technical skills of filmmaking. A film director has to be a leader, a networker, a motivator, a problem solver\u2014and above all else, a storyteller. A director has to be intuitive enough to be able to tell a captivating story by capturing the right footage on camera. A director has to know how to think on his\/her feet, having the ability to adapt to rapidly changing situations. A director also has to have connections within the industry, to be able to get things done. Many of these things you would never learn in a traditional film school. (In fact, this is precisely why some of the best directors in Hollywood never actually went to film school!)<\/p>\n
SO WHERE DO YOU GET WHAT YOU NEED?<\/h4>\n
Perhaps the very best way to learn how to be a film director is to\u00a0work<\/em>\u00a0with a film director\u2014in other words, to become an extern. There\u2019s no better way to learn the finer points of directing than to be mentored one-on-one by someone who does it for a living. This is the best \u201cdirector school\u201d you could ever have, for three important reasons:<\/p>\n\n- You\u2019ll learn more effectively one-on-one than you ever would in a classroom.<\/li>\n
- You\u2019ll gain valuable on-the-job experience, which gives you more \u201cstreet cred\u201d than any film school could give you.<\/li>\n
- You\u2019ll form powerful industry connections that can advance your career, which you\u2019d never be able to do in a college setting.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
HOW DO YOU GET AN APPRENTICESHIP?<\/h4>\n
Other than working your own connections (if you have them), one of the best ways to extern under a film director is to enroll in a film school that uses the mentor-extern approach, like the Film Connection. This kind of school is geared around on-the-job externships, and will place you as an extern in an actual film production company, with one-on-one instruction from a working film professional.<\/p>\n
It takes more than a basic education to become a film director, and mentoring is the best way to get what you need. A film externship is the best kind of film director school you could hope for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"featured-post":[],"resource-category":[],"reference-category":[343],"class_list":["post-23960","reference-library","type-reference-library","status-publish","hentry","reference-category-film-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmconnection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reference-library\/23960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmconnection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reference-library"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmconnection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reference-library"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmconnection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmconnection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"featured-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmconnection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured-post?post=23960"},{"taxonomy":"resource-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmconnection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resource-category?post=23960"},{"taxonomy":"reference-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmconnection.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reference-category?post=23960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}