Film school
A film school is an institution for professional training for film and television professionals such as writers, film composers, cinematographers, producers, directors, Editor, Production Designer, and sound engineer.
In Germany, the recognized film schools are independent institutions and usually have the status of an art school, some of them notwithstanding the legal form of a limited liability company. The term " film school " the media are film ( cinema), television and other audiovisual media predominantly included. A clear typological distinction is not easy.
Abroad varies the legal status of film schools and similar educational institutions. In the Anglo - American foreign film schools or art colleges are usually integrated as faculties in major universities. In Italy and France, the film schools exist as independent institutions.
World-renowned film schools are in the international film Hochschulverband CILECT ( Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision ) organized.
History
In German the term " Film School " was coined by the philologist and film reformer Dr. Franz Pauli, who wanted to found in 1920 in Berlin, the " German Film School ". However, his plan failed due to the lack of funding by the Prussian and Reich ministries and the lack of support by the German film industry. From 1921 to 1934 existed in Munich, the " German Film School ," which had the status of a recognized higher professional school. The first film school is the world's Institute was founded in the Soviet Union in 1919 for Cinematography ( VGIK ) in Moscow. The WGIK, however, was from 1919 until the late 20's primarily a film acting school (of which there were at that time very many in all countries). Until 1932 the subject was directed set up so that you can speak from then from a film school in the modern sense. Also in 1919, a film program was founded at Columbia University in New York, which became the model for the American way of academic film formation. In 1943, the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques ( IDHEC ) was founded in Paris. In 1948 he founded the Film School in Łódź.
The first German state film school, opened in 1938, the German Film Academy Babelsberg. Significant initiator was Joseph Goebbels. The German Film Academy has already been closed shortly after the beginning of World War II. She made until 1944, limited film technicians, especially projectionist from. 1954 here was modeled on the Soviet WGIK in the GDR Academy of Film and Television ' Konrad Wolf ', opened in Potsdam-Babelsberg. A forerunner in the field of higher education in film was in 1919 opened, German State Technical College of Optics and Photo- technology to Berlin, which was renamed in 1950 in State College for Optics and Photography Berlin.
The Ecole was founded in France in 1984 Nationale Supérieure des métiers de l'image et du son (La fémis ) is the largest and most important film school in France and is the successor of the IDHEC.
The first two West German film academies were founded in the mid-60s under the influence of auteur cinema of those years and the rise of television. 1966 was opened in the Federal Republic of Germany with the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, the first private law, urban film school. A year later, the State University of Television and Film Munich took up the teaching. Precursor in the West German film formation was that of Eberhard Hauff initiated German Institute for Film and Television ( DIFF) in Munich, founded in 1949, School of Wolfgang Kaskeline in Berlin and initiated by Alexander Kluge, Edgar Reitz and Detten Schleiermacher Institute for Film Design at the University of Design in Ulm, which was closed in 1989. 1991, funded by the state of Baden- Württemberg Film Academy Baden- Wuerttemberg was founded in Ludwigsburg. Other film schools in Germany, founded in 1990, the State Academy of Media Arts Cologne, with its Department of Film / TV, private International Film School Cologne founded in 2000, and the semi - state of Hamburg Media School.
Education and training
The study duration depends on the subject and the particular university and usually is 6-8 semesters. The program is usually completed with a bachelor's degree or a diploma or master's degree, which is widely used in art and film school in Germany still. In addition, at some film schools master degree be acquired and it will be set-up, complementary or supplementary studies and master student studies and master classes offered.
Access conditions
In the entrance examination has a film- specific artistic talent and partly practical experience already be detected. Belongs to film schools in Germany, in some cases, the formal prerequisite general or technical university or the general or technical college entrance. Some schools, however, such as the dffb Berlin or Munich Film School, require at least the average maturity and completed vocational training.
Film Schools
Australia
CILECT members:
- Australian Film Television and Radio School
- Griffith Film School
- Victorian College of the Arts
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Sarajevo Film Academy
China
- Beijing Film Academy
Denmark
- Den Danske Filmskole
Germany
CILECT members:
- German Film and Television Academy in Berlin, Berlin
- Film Academy Baden- Württemberg, Ludwigsburg
- Hamburg Media School, Hamburg
- University of Television and Film Munich, Munich
- Academy of Film and Television "Konrad Wolf", Potsdam -Babelsberg
- International Film School Cologne, Cologne
- Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Cologne
- Macromedia University for Media and Communication, Munich and Cologne
France
CILECT members:
- La fémis - Ecole nationale supérieure des métiers de l'image et du son, Paris
- VARAN, Atelier de Réalisation Cinématographique
- École Supérieure d' Audiovisual University of Toulouse II, Toulouse
- Le Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Francais
CILECT candidate:
- École Louis Lumière
Other:
- Ecole Superieure Libre d' Etudes Cinematographiques
Great Britain
CILECT members:
- National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield
- London Film School, London
- University of Westminster, London
- Screen Academy Scotland, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland
India
Israel
- Sam Spiegel Film and Television School, Jerusalem
Italy
- Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rome
Canada
- Vancouver Film School, Vancouver
Cuba
- Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television, San Antonio de los Baños
New Zealand
- New Zealand Film and Television School, Wellington
- South Seas Film & Television School, Auckland
- Unitec Institute of Technology - School of Performing and Screen Arts, Auckland
Netherlands
- Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie, Amsterdam
Austria
CILECT Member:
- Vienna Film Academy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Poland
- National School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź ( Państwowa Wyższa SzkoĹ Filmowa, Telewizyjna i Teatralna Leona Schillera w Łodzi, in short. PWSFTViT )
Portugal
CILECT Member:
- Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Lisbon
Romania
CILECT Member:
- Universitatea de Arta Naţională Teatrală şi Cinematografica " Ion Luca Caragiale ", Bucharest
Russia
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Moscow
Switzerland
CILECT members:
- Hochschule Luzern - Design & Art
- Ecole Cantonal d'art de Lausanne
- Haute école d'art et design, Geneva
- Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich
Other:
- International Academy of Broadcasting
- F F School for Art and Media Design, Zurich
Serbia
- Fakultet dramskih umetnosti Beograd ( Faculty of dramatic arts Belgrade)
Slovenia
CILECT Member:
- Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, Ljubljana
Czechia
- Faculty of Film and Television at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
USA
CILECT members:
- American Film Institute
- American University, School of Communication, Film and Media Arts Division
- Boston University, College of Communication
- California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (California )
- Chapman University, School of Film & TV
- Columbia University, New York
- Florida State University, Tallahassee
- Loyola Marymount University, School of Film and Television
- New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
- North Carolina School of the Arts
- Stanford University, Documentary Film and Video Program
- University of California, Los Angeles, School of Theater, Film and Television
- University Film and Video Association
- University of Southern California, School of Cinema and Television