"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all,
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." - John Keats
PROJECT MENTORSHIP & CONSULTATION
Clients receive world-class guidance and oversight for their specific projects.
This could be a tailored tutorial in your chosen topic, original script development, budgeting feedback, actor coaching or any other aspect of work.
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How is CINESCHOOL different?
1. Most online courses provide pre-recorded training videos but do not offer one-on-one mentorship. One-on-one, personalized supervision with world-class practitioners is very rare. We offer both a course of learning and personal supervision on projects.
2. Few courses or programs offer a classical training program with emphasis on traditions of quality. Rather than chasing fads or corporate cliche, we parse out the fundamentals of effective storytelling from examples and principles that stand the test of time.
3. This is a selective program. By curating the group of participants, students are assured of high quality peers and collaborators in their courses. This helps to lift the quality of work, the commitment of the makers and the strength of their network. One aspect of this program is to build a strong cohort of filmmakers that can support each other beyond the duration of the course.
4. By offering an online course, a wide range of people can participate, independent of work, family, school, employment, travel restrictions, or other factors. We do not provide a studio environment nor pass you the costs of that overhead. We're focused on the principles and skills of universal, foundational practice. These skills are transferable to a variety of professions including filmmaking, media production, gaming, design, web, art, performance, etc.
The cost-benefit of degree-based, formal arts education has become unsustainable. The price of college tuition has increased by 600% in the past 25 years.
Regular college students now see less than 30% of their total "tuition"costs pay for actual instruction. Non-teaching staff outnumber instructors in most all colleges.
Many talented, ambitious young people are priced-out or turned-off by the policies of political compliance and conformity at academic institutions. As these once-prestigious, centralized colleges fail to provide the value they promised, people must seek out new, active learning communities.
Decentralization is the foundation of truly functional and self-interested networks. Examples of this include: homeschooling, entrepreneurial business, blockchain, 3-D printing, citizen journalism, apprenticeships, crowdfunding, family farms, parallel economies, and the original model of a republican government.
Decentralized learning involves accessing top-tier lessons and mentorship, outside of formal institutional affiliation, to construct one's own course of specialized study.