<p>For several reasons i can only major/apply to either English or Journalism. Which one do you guys think would better prepare me and open more doors for filmmaking? e.g. screenwriting, directing, producing, acting. Thanks a lot in advance.
P.S. The majority of filmmakers have not attended film school.</p>
<p>You can’t go wrong with a good creative writing/English major for screenwriting. Go where there are strong teachers in any case. You want to be pushed to grow. Keep reading and watching movies. Learn to storyboard to make your writing visual. Do comics/graphic novels. If you do journalism make sure you are writing about things that could be films. Character studies, crime stories, political intrigue, history. There is also a genre called creative nonfiction that some writing programs have concentrations in.
good luck.
You could always do film on the graduate level after your English degree.</p>
<p>Journalism duh. In Journalism you will learn to write, video record, photograph, work in front of the camera, broadcast and edit. In English you will only read Shakespeare and Robert Frost which will probably only make you fall asleep. And forget about graduate school and student loans, it will only make you indebted, overqualified and unhireable. Get a cum laude B.S. in Journalism and launch your career. good luck.</p>
<p>journalism is dying… as much as stuffed teddy bears are… youtube and etsy are few of major serial killers but think ahead the time when you’d graduate how they could be multiplied, army of killers!!!
then think about how long since the guy with ruffle collars were dead and buried (almost 400 years)
or this Mr. Frost’s poem about crow made snow fall from the tree branch that made his day rued. It was in subway public ad I saw during comute.
I am ESL and hell no idea what “rue” is really but I could see the snow, the black bird, falling snow that made “aha!” in Mr. Frost’s mind only in few lines of simple words, I could see it visually as if it is this scratchy old black and white film, black bird and white white snow.
Such is the power of language. I am not saying journalism is a crap but you just can not say English major is the crap, maybe for you but not for other folks who like snow and crow.
I just learned the word “crap” (long story) and can’t help practice using it.
Keep reading!</p>
<p>here it is! hate etsy (the enemy!!) love internet</p>
<p>Dust of Snow</p>
<p>by Robert Frost</p>
<p>The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree</p>
<p>Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.</p>
<p>english all the way…even comp lit works too…(as does Philosophy) Look at Christopher Nolan & Coen brothers. For your sake ignore frankkissinger’s inane and misleading post.</p>
<p>“raison_d’etre”: you’d have to be nuts to choose English over Broadcast Journalism. There are only 2 renowned film directors that have majored in English: Scorcese and Christoph Nolan, and i believe the latter is a mediocre (compared to: Cameron, Spielberg, Tarantino,…) The remaining average, majored in Communications; stop reading wikipedia “for your sake”. Broadcast Journalism makes you: write for the screen, perform in front of the camera, produce and broadcast your own footage for television. Its a no brainer-- how are you going to apply for a job in the film industry when all you did for 4 years was read ancient British literature? And also, can you explain to me then why every Journalism program requires a 3.0 gpa to apply, whereas the English Dpt. caters mostly to the 2.0’ers? Ha! :)</p>
<p>More people than the two you mentioned have majored in English and gone on to be successful. Look at Jason Reitman. James Cameron majored in philosophy and dropped out. Spielberg also dropped out, became successful and then later went back and completed his degree. Tarantino attended acting school and eventually dropped out. Really it doesn’t matter what your major is as long as you have the chops to put yourself out there.</p>
<p>let him/her be
the way s/he have to edit rather short posts after time expired >10-15 min just like I always have to since I could never catch mistakes, offenses, slips and falls on time during initial writing and posting and reviewing period shows that English is not his/her strength.
It is hard to believe in something you’d suffered through.</p>
<p>“bears and dogs”, its “He”, and i dont edit my posts for errors; however, your grammar makes me assume you are from Timbuktu or something. “Pscholler”, Reitman majored in Screenwriting, Cameron in Physics and Spielberg in Film. I rest my case, peace out :).</p>
<p>so did you like the poem?
what then you edit for?
I see that you didn’t edit anymore and left “i” un capital-ed (e.e.cumming-ed) and " dont" un-’ ed.</p>
<p>yah I am from somewhere worse than Timbuktu but still know when see something good to read, is what important, no?</p>
<p>LOL you just editted and add that Timbuktu bit, didn’t you?
I think you are OK kid.</p>
<p>Dude there is no major called Screen-writing, He majored in English at USC… I never said Spielberg didn’t I was making a point that his education at Long Beach played no part in his being successful. Same with Cameron.</p>
<p>“Pscholler”: “Dude” of course there is a B.F.A. in Screenwriting and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting as well. English/Journalism majors just give screenwriters an ancillary benefit, but the real mccoy is screenwriting. “joemac20s”: the truth is that film school/degrees are a joke, its all about talent and connections. Im out of here.</p>
<p>thank you kissinger and thank you guys. I have realized that both degrees are great, specially journalism for television and english for film. farewell.</p>
<p>frankkissinger. sorry your taste in film is crap. the fact that you included tarantino in that sentence was enough to pull me away from what I had predicted to be a largely inane and useless post anyway. good day and best of luck for your future.</p>
<p>kissinger you can shove your peace outs in your a**.</p>
<p>^what’s the matter with you now out of blue, like, 5 month later?
doubt the kid is around anymore.
I think he got lesson and learning english literature somewhere, let it rest, will you?</p>