film university, who is top?

[salvador]

I live in Edinburgh also and its a great place to live, especially as a film student. Napier and Edinburgh College of Art run courses together as Screen Academy Scotland. ECA is better I've heard and Napier has mixed feedback. Jill's daughter loves it but 3 of my close friends are there just now and hate it and other friends are graduates and didn't like it either but then others have loved it. Depends on the person really I think.

[kritic]

Thanks a lot for the responses. Ive been reading them as they have been posted and i really appreciate it all.
Keep them coming.

I live in Edinburgh, and Napier has a very bad reputation, but only for courses related to non-media. As far as i am aware their media/film/tech department is very good, but apart from that everything else seems a big 'no no'.

I am currently looking at the Napier, Hertfordshire, Bournemouth and Edinburgh Art College courses thanks to you all.

Once again keep the posts and recommendations coming =)

Rob

[RydCook]

Went to bournemouth open day. Was excellent. I'll type up more when i've got time.

[jafford]

I'm thinking of applying to York University later year (to go September 09). I want to look at a few other universities first though, however due to me having a year old daughter I don't want to travel to far from Hull and try to keep on a direct bus/train route so I can either commute or come home everyweekend/be visited with ease.

My friend is doing the course there at the moment and says the equipment is excellent.

[stumpster]

ive applied to edge hill for tv and film production because the uni is becoming a feeder course for the new bbc at manchester or whereever its going to be

[mikeyp]

I recently went on a specialised open day for film with my college film studies class, i found it exceptional. All the lecturers and technicians are from within the industry. There equipment made my mouth water. Professional dolly rig, many variations of cameras, lighting, audio equipment, a TV Studio, almost everything you can think of. I went out of my way to talk to the two lecturers there, i found them very insightful and spoke to one for almost half an hour about projects ive done, even gave him a shot idea that he loved! So yes, im very much going to be applying there, and id have to tell people to atleast check it out!

[RydCook]

Where was that then Mikeyp?!

[mikeyp]

ryd22 said:

Where was that then Mikeyp?!

Ha i went all of on one without saying where, it was Falmouth University down here in cornwall

[jimmy975]

Whatever you do don't go to the Film & Media course at Queen Margaret's University in Edinburgh. All they did was call it a 'film' course while attatching other subjects to it that you can take a seperate degree in, like literature for example e.g. Crime Fiction in the cinema. You also learn a lot about how feminism is represented in police dramas, while i've nothing against feminism, what is the bloody use in that. The college were finding loads of excuses to attach an extra course into the curriculum and blatantly calling it a film course for professionals, disgraceful. They also didn't have a clue about BECTU, essential contacts in the industry, making a film safely; the only film-making part of the course was being given a camera and told to 'make a film' there was absolutley no tuition about cinematography, editing or anything at all really (that's not a slant on the lecturer, he was constantly getting roped into doing promotional jobs for the university and was far too busy to lecture us).

And a lot of the stuff that we were promised to be taught were dropped such as documentary techniques.