college: Major in art history and minor in flim?
Question by Autumn: college: Major in art history and minor in flim?
Right now I’m getting my associates in Fine arts at a community college, and i have no clue what i want to do from here.
i really love art, photography, screen writing, making movies, comedy, and interior design.
so i was thinking i would major in art history and maybe become and exhibit designer, and minor in film ( or vice a versa) so i could take screen writing and maybe become a write for show….
I’m always told I’m funny, and it would be a dream of mine to make it on to saturday night live, but it’s a bit of a stretch… so i thought maybe film and art history as a backup.. good idea?
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Answer by TR
Sounds to me like you’re a little bit of all over the place. Not that you’re any worse off than most undergrads.
I always recommend that students work with the career counseling office on their campus. They can get to know you better than us Yahoo! answer denizens, and thus can give you better recommendations about careers.
Regarding your ambitions–your blend of skills looks like it would work rather well, but if you want to be ON Saturday Night Live, as opposed to just writing for it, then you need a performance degree. Look around for a really good university program that offers a BFA (bachelor of fine arts) in theatre performance–do not settle for just a BA–and forget the art history minor for now, you’ll learn plenty about the history of theatre in your BFA program and you can fill in the visual arts side on your own time.
As a BFA theatre major, you’ll be expected to learn all of the aspects of show biz–not only acting/directing, but all kinds of tech (where your art/interior design skills will come in handy), dramaturgy, career management–and even a tad of scriptwriting, depending on the program. Get into one of those and that SNL appearance will be closer–how close, depends on your own talent and determination.
Note that BFA programs can be devilishly difficult to enter, and they’ll work you hard-hard-hard! As a CC transfer, you should expect to take three full years of additional study to finish the program–try to find several to apply to, ensures you of probably getting into one if the others all reject you.
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