Titles for "Film" Majors - Cutting through the confusion

@WWWard -

My son did a lot of school visits, but found his place in the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University (Athens, Ohio). He has been VERY successful in his field. Not a name school, but he got to make films from the very first day in class and worked with a group of very taented and driven people, almost all of whom are now successful in the film industry. Here is me doing some bragging: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/visual-arts-film-majors/1863254-sorry-i-cant-hold-it-in-any-longer-update-p1.html

If your D has the stats for the schools you mention AND THE DRIVE to work independently, the HTC might be something she could look into: https://www.ohio.edu/honors/ (btw, that’s my son in the middle of the first photo you see on the page - “Unlimited Destinations” - standing on the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro.)

Here is an (unfortunately) edited version of their junior year film that won awards and was accepted in about 16 film festivals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bzhWopboTQ (edited down to 25 minutes from about 35 minutes).

Also, if your haven’t seen this yet, here are the post-graduate stages I see for a film school graduate: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/18274791#Comment_18274791

One of the things I liked about the school was the annual “Shootout” competition. His team took first or second in three of the four years he was there. He like the pressure of completing a film in a 48-hour period, given a line of dialog, a prop, and a genre. Here are a couple of his team’s films. The one called “Game Night” won an award at the Ivy Film Festival and actually got the attention of Roger Ebert, who called it “Altmanesque.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x9DIE3expo (Senior Year)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSiD56OZXT0 (Junior year)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CpCE7Wv6Ws (Freshman year)

And finally, your daughter might be interested in seeing this, from their freshman year - a “Behind the Scenes” featurette on making their film (Wesley is my son): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFGovMUGrzk (LANGUAGE WARNING)