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[quote=Anonymous]As another poster suggested, there is plenty of good-paying work for skilled editors and videographers.

If you're going to film school to be a famous writer or director or producer -- you'd better be extremely talented, well-connected, and lucky -- or all three. Also you should probably ooze charisma. Then maaaaybe you might have a chance of getting a decent job.

Otherwise, if you learn real technical skills -- post-production, sound/lighting/camera work -- you will be able to earn a living. But it would be foolish to break the bank to acquire those skills.

I have a friend in the industry who is a special effects editor. He does well. Like, what people in DC call "upper middle class?" Well enough to pay full tuition. Not well enough that he doesn't mind lol

Anyway, he has been advising my DD, and his advice has been to focus on the learning and not on the credential. Certain corporate settings will require credentials, but the point is to get a BA (or BFA or -- ideally! -- a BS) but nobody cares where you got it. People care what you can do. And maybe who you know.

But nobody cares where you went to school.

I have another friend in the industry who is a verrrry accomplished editor. He went to NYU, wealthy-ish family, studied film and Jewish-studies-it-shouldn't-be-a-total-loss. Brilliant, hardworking. Never been in debt a day in his life bc his grandparents paid for school. I'd say NYU certainly hasn't hurt him; and also, he advises against going into debt for film school.

I do have one friend in the industry who makes BANK. High roller, no prior connections. Didn't come from nothing, exactly, but was solidly middle class when there was such a thing. One of the most intelligent people I have ever met, taught himself French and German, wrote his own ticket. Now works in acquisitions for one of the major streaming services.

He got his education at Columbia Law school.  
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