When you’re starting out as a creative individual you’re constantly looking for inspirations and role models. You’re always looking for people to pattern yourself after. You’re always in search for some insider piece of information that will clue you into exactly how your idols create the works of art you’re obsessed with. While you’re building […]
The film world is a bizarrely close-knit group. It’s an industry where everyone knows each other and where everyone has an opinion about each other. Making movies is so hard, that it’s always a priority to have the best and brightest people behind you at all times. You always want someone who’s willing to go […]
Creative individuals have a desire to better themselves and push through to the next level. Due to this impulse, and the fact that creatives tend to constantly observe the world around them, certain stereotypes and hierarchies can become apparent over time. Hopefully, being able to see different hierarchies at work won’t make you shortsighted and […]
Producers get a bad rap but the truth of the matter is that film producers aren’t out to cheat you and they’re generally not jerks. In the making of a movie, the screenwriter is like the architect who drafts the blueprint for the house. It’s their words, their characters, their idea. The director is like […]
Everyone wants to make movies. Everyone has ideas. They might even have a script or two lying around. They might have even shot some short films or made some web videos. But you know what they haven’t done? Just made a movie. Yeah, it’s kind of a big statement to make. But sometimes you just […]
Before Film Connection screenwriting student Suzanne Nichols could learn to write a screenplay, she actually had to un-learn a few things. By the time she found the Film Connection, she had already authored several books. In fact, she says she enrolled as an apprentice because she decided her next story idea needed to be a […]
Regardless of the connections you make by learning on-the-job, there’s no substitute for taking the initiative and making the most of every opportunity. Just ask Eric Gonzalez, a Recording Connection graduate who recently got hired at one of Los Angeles’ top recording studios. As an apprentice with mentor Derek O’Brien at DOB Sound Studios in […]
In the months since enrolling in the Film Connection, Keith Huff has gained more experience with film production than many film students get after years of film school! As an apprentice with Herschel Zahnd of American Recording Co. in Louisville, KY, Keith has found himself working hands-on in an integral role helping his mentor on […]
How does someone with zero filming experience wind up owning his own production company within a few years? Ask Film Connection graduate Taylor Giddens. When he first decided to enroll, he was in his late 20’s, married and building his own business in a completely different profession. But he had an unfulfilled dream to be […]
Forty-five-year-old Recording Connection graduate Chris Litwin (Meridan, Connecticut) was a lifelong musician who decided to pursue a career in audio engineering. But little could he have imagined that his training would one day lead to building his own recording studio with help from a Grammy-winning producer! Chris says he first got the engineering “bug” back […]
