Are You Commerce Graduate? Try Your Hand at Film Making and Film Production
There are a number of conventional career options available for a commerce student and some of them are Actuarial Science, Insurance, Chartered Accountant, Company Secretary, Securities Analysts, ICWAI, Accountant, Statistician and the like. If you are a commerce student and are not interested in making career in the above mentioned field, you can go for some the non conventional career options as well such as film making and film production. In India, these days a countless number of commerce students are making their career in film making and film production and all are very content and satisfied with their life. So, by the same line of thinking, you can also go for the film making and film production course and have a successful career in it.
In the film Making and Film Production Courses, an individual is trained out and out about it which involves a clear eyed understanding of contemporary global scenario, collective consciousness, human psyche and many more things like them. This very course also helps you to learn more about art, history and aesthetics along with technical dexterity, power of imagination, careful and keen observation and clear-eyed understanding of the economics of the film making.
But you must be mindful of the fact that if you want to make your career in film making, you have to have patient of a saint. Without steely determination, dedication, and unflinching loyalty, it is very difficult to get a break as a technician, director, video editor and the like.
Qualifications
If you are 12th standard passed, you can apply for a Technical course in Film Making and film production. If you want apply for some other streams such as sound engineering, direction and the like, you are required to be a graduate. Nevertheless, for sound engineering some institutes usually do not allow commerce graduate. They prefer Physics graduates actually. So, you think accordingly.
Courses in India
As far as the institutes offering such courses are concerned, there is no dearth of such institutes actually. You will find a number of such institutes and some of them are as follows;
- Film and Television Institute of India, Pune
- Bihar Institute of film and Television, Pataliputra Colony, Patna
- University of Mysore, Crawford Hall, Mysore 570005
- Whistling Woods International, Mumbai
- Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute EM Byepass, Kolkata 700094
As far as the scope of film making and film production in India is concerned, there is nothing to be worried about it. As soon as you become an independent film maker, you can work as a freelancer or you can join an advertising agency, production house, television channel.
As media industry is flourishing by leaps and bounds, ample of opportunities have developed for you. So, in this film industry, with a bit of determination and patience, you can carve a very successful career for yourself very soon.
Not only India, you have plethora of opportunities in this filed, but also aboard, you can try your hand at it. It is sure that even in Hollywood, you can get many opportunities to prove your mettle.
