Las Vegas Film Schools

If you would consider along with all the big movies taken and made in Las Vegas like 'The Hangover' and 'What Happens in Vegas' there would certainly be a great chance for advancement in Las Vegas film schools there. But you'd be dead wrong. Even if Vegas is just about two hundred miles from Hollywood, it's similarly an outpost in Siberia when it comes to filmmaking schools. For a couple of years already, there exists only two options if you aim to know regarding how to create films in Las Vegas. First o the list, the University of Nevada - Las Vegas for it has a Department of Film. They offer a Bachelors of Arts degree in film and a Masters in Screenwriting. The tuition is a bit higher than six thousand dollars for each semester. Their faculty is initiated by chair Francisco Menendez, who has consequently created two films; David Schmoeller, most recognized for the 'Puppet Master' films of the early nineties; and Sean Clark, a very good TV writer. Each of the classes consists around 30 students. The other school is the Art Institute of Las Vegas which offers a course in digital film and video production. As stated in their website: 'In the Digital Film & Video Production program, you shall know regarding the formulating, creating, and incorporating digital audio, video and motion pictures... Graduates are then geared up with the skills to look for fundamental jobs such as video editor, video producer, or even digital videographer.' Not too complicated. There is no listing of faculty members provided, yet they do let you know that they are industry professionals. Tuition is a bit more than twenty thousand dollars.

In 2008, another school sprang out: The Las Vegas School of Film. The staff is not from Hollywood - most come from local TV stations and Vegas area production. No names appear to be familiar to you. The classes are not expensive and are made to have students make a finished short film in a limited amount of time. And so because it is so current, there have no triumphant evidences and stories coming from this school yet. It's surprising that the choices are so constrained for anyone in the Las Vegas area hoping to learn about filmmaking. Only UNLV seems to have true Hollywood professionals working among its faculty, but none of them are names that most people would know. However, if you are there with a population ranging to 30, it would not be possible to have any form of one-on-one mentoring as, for instance, the Film Connection offer. No curriculum from the three schools in Vegas appears to offer up-close-and-personal instruction with real connections to the movie business. Along with the show business flourishing in the heart of Las Vegas, it may be that the distinct has arrived for more choices for those who want to know rearding how to create films. The possibilities right now are few - but with more and more TV shows and movies making the trek from Los Angeles to Sin City, maybe more Las Vegas film schools will gamble on taking a chance in Las Vegas.