**I know this post comes off a little whiny – and it is. I just feel those who want to go to school for film at The Art Institute of Las Vegas (and possibly other schools with film degrees) should know what they are getting in to.**
Simply put: Film students have the most work out of all the students at The Art Institute of Las Vegas.
Film students don’t have projects that just involve themselves. Film requires a lot of people, time, equipment, and/or work to do a proper project. Planning, checking out equipment, editing, shooting, and everything else involved in a video is required to make a film/video, but it feels as if everyone thinks videos just happen.
Yet, film students are often approached to do videos for other students. Even if a student wants to pay for a film/video, it is just as much as most other students from other majors will pay……if students are willing to pay for the help at all. I have been asked on multiple occasions to help make a video, but I have never been offered any money. I have asked a couple students for a logo and a portrait, and each student wanted money.
The worst part about doing videos for other students (or anyone who doesn’t pay or pays very little) is the fact that they think they are the experts and/or demand all sorts of changes in the videos created for them for free.
In General Education classes, the instructors generally want students to do something with their major. I have never had it as a requirement, but it is just stressed. For example, a photography student can take a picture of a girl holding a bottle of wine. A graphic design student can create a logo for a box of crackers. A film student, however, would be expected to create a commercial.
I don’t buy the “If you love your work, you won’t mind doing it” business. What a film student should mind is the fact that so much more work and time goes in to a project, where someone could put in 10% of the workload and receive a grade of the same stature.
Students, in general, are screwed over on pay, especially from the public. I have known students who received $100 to shoot a wedding. That’s horridly less than minimum wage while using thousands of dollars of equipment. Does that make sense?
I have never seen an animation student ever create an animation for a class, nor an audio student do a sound project for a general education class. I have seen more videos from students not involved in the film program than students from within the film program in general education classes. I believe this is because film students have to shoot so many other projects for other classes. They end up just not having the time or are burnt out from doing free stuff all the time.
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