Brown vs. Yale (it hurts to choose)

Safiamilke
Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:13:37 +0000

I’ll just tell you point-blank: Yale’s film program is terrible. 90% of work is shot digitally, and they only have a limited about of post-production facilities (when I visited they didn’t even have a flat-back, only one AVID machine with four-year old software).

If you’re interested in being either a cinema studies prof or a filmmaker, I would strongly recommend either northwestern or columbia. Brown’s is even worse…

I think I’ve “talked” with you before, but many of my film friends at Yale switched out of their major because of how poor the program is (they all moved into the theater studies program which they love). If this major switch interests you, then I would encourage you to go to Yale as all many of my friends with in UG Drama love it. However, if you’re not interested in diving into film production or being a film scholar, Yale is not the place.

If you are have eliminated Columbia and NU, and are only looking at Brown vs. Yale, then you should defintley go to Yale. Brown doesn’t have film studies, no classes on film production (some video production, some screenwriting).

Think about the alumi coming out of Yale in film…not many filmmakers…not many scholars.