The film industry has always been a "who you know" field. To move up in the ranks you have to suck up to the people who know someone who can give you a job. It's very difficult to succeed otherwise.
College's are still teaching the old ways of doing things. They are teaching that you need to be grandfathered in still, that you have to shoot with massive budgets and expensive equipment. They don't show young film majors that you can easily find work in commercial video, weddings, music videos, recording depositions and much more in the law realm. It's these roadblocks thrown up by the ones already in the field that hold back the film makers of the future. With these complications many young would be film majors give up. They end up working at a pizza place or walmart.
But there is hope on the horizon, because equipment is becoming readily more available to the young aspiring filmmaker they can know show people what they can do. They can prove themselves easier, give themselves the chance that before you had to have given to you. Young people in the video industry can now work hard to get in.
More and more film festivals are popping up giving young people in the industry a chance to shine. They help the young unknown become the well known. They now have a better chance. With this trend beginning, film students can start to see a future in this field.
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