vancouver film school

[DIEH4RD]

anyone taking any courses or programs at vfs? if so how is it like? i am interested but i am still a little confused with what i wanted to be.

[RecklessNS]

Yeah I'm taking the foundations course at vfs aswell as the digital design next year and too be honest it's pretty good but since i already have my fundamentals in digital design some of the classes feel a bit repetitive but like a good 60% of the curriculum is all new to me and it's a constant learning experience with them. The reason i picked this over emily carr and the art institute is because the programs are year programs which can get me to work faster and this is a industry based school and there involvement with the industry greatly impacts my education due to the no bullshit teachers that have worked in the industry/still works in the industry.the only downside it is way more expensive than other art school's but all of the supplies are added into the tuition, and I was fortunate to be in a class that has a good work ethic (except for a few that dropped out recently thank you baby jesus ) but i have talked to a couple of people in the class before me and they have all told me the same, the people in your class make or break your grades because there is one term which is strictly group projects and that is the deciding factor I'm just finishing up this term and I'm glad its fucking over cause the people that dropped out was bringing everyone in our class down. So from my experience it is a great school to go to and saying that you are confused on what your doing I highly recommend foundations then going straight into your discipline.I've been at this school for 4 months and my portfolio pretty good at this point. like any art school its not a slack program you need to put in a lot of time and even more time if you wanna make the grades.

Hope this was helpful!

[GGnoRE]

^Damn... wheres the punctuation?

[RecklessNS]

^that's why i'm in film school

[artmotion]

I went there for the Game Design program back in 06 and if you're planning on going into the same program, be prepared to be thrown into a job market with really slim pickings. I was fortunate enough that I had become close with a ton of people, making sure that I would be able to secure a job but if you're not really social and possibly prepared to relocate for a job after, good luck.

Having said that, the program itself was great! I loved being in an environment which was actually not too far off from what a real startup studio would be like and all of the classes are super fun and informative.

So for that program in particular, one question you really have to ask yourself is, "is it worth it?" If you put your hours in, get yourself noticed by industry professionals and can get a job, then yes. Otherwise, you would fall into the other 75-80% of the students who end up paying 30k+ for an education which would be useless in most other industries.

Also, keep in mind that the program itself has changed a lot since I was there. It's now offered at a different building, class sizes have increased to about 25-30 per class and the staff has changed a lot. Although the new building is probably great, increasing class sizes from mine (14 students) to what they are now is really detrimental in a program with so many technical things to learn.

Hope this helps.

Brian