Hello, I am an 18 year old about to graduate high school and I am interested in studying both filmmaking and photography. I am taking a year off in between to go stay in Germany with my uncle who is a photographer and learn/work with him, so I will be entering for the autumn of 2019. My primary interest is the moving image, but still photography is something that I am passionate about as well and would like to study both, ideally.
I am quite disinterested in digital filmmaking and photography, everything that I’ve done and intend to do is on film. There has been a renaissance of analogue photography and filmmaking in the last few years (though analogue filmmaking has never gone away) so it’s certainly something that is “present”, but nonetheless, even if it wasn’t, it is how I prefer to express myself in these mediums, and since this is art that is ultimately what matters. I don’t have a problem becoming familiar with digital filmmaking and photography, but it isn’t an interest of mine and I definitely don’t want to waste my time at a program that focuses on these things exclusively.
So, which film and photography schools have the most emphasis and resources for working with film? Which teach the whole process, beyond filming/shooting to post-production and editing film, which is totally different from digital. I am very familiar with all of these processes and working in a dark room with regards to still photography and will learn even more in this coming year, but I don’t know much about post-production and processing of 16mm and 35mm moving images. Which schools do you recommend? I am not limited to the US, and would also be happy to study in Britain or German speaking Europe if that’s where a program that I like is.