Acting School For Learning Perfect acting And Drama

Several film schools are starting to offer acting programs as part of their curriculum. They sell this in several ways, the foremost being that students on both sides of the camera benefit from the seemingly obvious relationship. The film students get actors and the acting students get to be in films all the time. What could be more perfect, right?

The trouble that I have with these sorts of arrangements are the same basic problems I have with the film school model in general. That being the idea that in neither case are they working towards or practicing what the realities of the film set is going to be like. The basic trouble of the working film set is two-fold, first, is time. Productions, just by the nature of needing to get everything "just right" before filming commences, require a significant amount of time. Professional film productions routinely put in 16 hour days and in the school environment, that simply can't be accommodated. The film school classes have to have a finite run time and trying to assign an arbitrary stopping point in a film production will never work.

As an actor participating in these "productions" day in and day out, you will find that you're learning to do things in a rushed atmosphere, where people are just trying to get everything to work long enough to cobble together a quick take or two before moving on. And, to make matters worse, when things aren't "right", the "crew" doesn't care, because it's not their shoot and they don't really want to be doing the job to begin with. These are hardly the traits you want to refine in your acting and especially if you're paying a tremendous amount of money for the privilege!

For the most part I think getting a degree is a good thing. Just, for my dollars, I'd want to know that the degree I'm getting will pay for itself down the road. I can say without any hesitation that a liberal arts degree with a major in acting will not make you any money back. It will be money that you spend and never see again, regardless of what the sales literature says about their graduates "employment" statistics. And, for the record, a graduate that gets a job as a delivery driver for a editing house is considered "working in the industry".He gets paid less than the guy that delivers pizzas. At least the pizza guy gets tips.So, How Do I Learn Film Acting If Not At A Film School?Generally speaking, you're going to learn film acting the way everyone else has.

If you want to learn more about how to get started in acting for film or tv, be sure to check out Acting For Film And Television.As always, if you have any questions or thoughts, or would just like to share some of your successes, please feel free to drop me a line. I actually answer them.Best of Luck out there and remember, you can't fail if you don't quit.