Film School Secrets: Is Film Education Important to Start Your Career?

Especially for an artist, to be able to perform his art, it is not really necessary to get the education of this art from a school. Because it is a matter of talent and spirit.

However, just like the all other sectors, education has a function of accelerating the experience and helps more quickly learn the necessary information. Without training, you can start performing any art in maybe 10 years, this period may decrease to 3-4 years with proper education. Other than these advantages, education is not very important in the field of art.

Education is always very important. You can educate yourself in any field. It is not possible to be a good artist without proper knowledge. If you are a painter, it is useful to know your brush and paints well. But that's all.

If you want to compare the films of educated filmmakers and un-educated filmmakers, it is better to make your decision by evaluating their work. Sometimes a filmmaker with no education can produce amazing films based on their talents.

It is not possible to be a good filmmaker if you do not enjoy playing with toys. Because film industry is full of toys; the set, the shooting moment is full of toys like equipments; the camera, lights, set cars, costumes, decor, accessories. Films can be done with these things.

It is hard to make a film for a person if he does not;

• enjoy spending time with these things


• understand the mechanics of a camera


• find camera a fun and entertaining thing


• feel admiration to the camera

Because in the film industry, there are too many instruments between the art and the artist. Of course this is true for all other art fields, but the technology is much more important for filmmaking than other branches of art.

If you want to learn filmmaking you can educate yourself by watching different sort of movies. Because you are learning a language; the cinema language. To be able to speak in that language, it is vital to give your time to learn this language. The second most important thing is shooting and editing. Trying to create stories by adding the plans one after another will be very useful for developing your filmmaking skills.

Both watching other films and shooting your films whenever possible is advised. Because filmmaking is the field of story telling. You cannot learn telling stories without listening stories of others and attempting to tell your stories to others.