denver film schools addressing the need
It’s not unexpected for Denver, Colorado to have a mushrooming homegrown film industry - what with its urban excitement, promotion of the arts and a scenic landscape right at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. Each year, the Starz Denver Film Festival draws a multitude of industry professionals to the area, and the Starz Film Center has activities year-round. Denver provides a great combination of visual and artistic inspiration, and several aspiring filmmakers are benefiting from today’s accessibility of digital technology. So why are Denver film schools so limited-and are they addressing the need?In Denver, there are 3 places to get any kind of formal education in the film industry, but only one of these is specific to film making. This portion of Colorado has three reputable schools: Colorado Film Institute, Denver School of the Arts as well as Colorado Art Institute; and all these are barely enough to address the rising demand of film making education in Denver.The truth is, for many aspiring filmmakers, the formal education route may not be the best alternative. Many of the professionals in the industry, for example, have mastered their trade through hands-on, and quite a few film directors don’t have formal film education at all. Not only that, the landscape of movies is also changing. Several laptops today, for example, can be made as a miniature film studio, with HD capabilities and all. While it’s still true that quality of professional-level equipment largely differs from basic laptop software, the public, more than ever, is getting easy access to film making tools. This situation then calls for alternative education methods for people who are truly serious about taking their craft to the next level.Even with these changes, filmmaking has always been a trade where people learn best by doing. Even for those big names who went to film school-ask them what their greatest influences and inspirations are, and they’ll typically mention their mentors, not their degrees. This is a trade passed person to person, artist to artist-not necessarily using book learning and lab workshops. So perhaps, at least for a select few, an alternate form of education is called for-one that connects students with real film professionals in a real-time environment, a method that focuses on mentorship rather than class study. Denver film schools may meet the need in part-but in a creative industry such as filmmaking, a mentor-based education might go a longer way to meet the need.Denver Film School offers one-on-one mentoring from Hollywood film professionals. The Film Connection’s mentor apprentice approach to filmmaking pairs you up with a working professional on actual film and video jobs - no teachers, no crowded classrooms, to massive tuition debts.
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