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Film Schools using RED

I finished school right around the time the RED was seeing it's first releases shipped out. I would imagine a lot of schools are using it now for obvious reasons. But then again, I know that a lot of the stuff in our equipment inventory got pretty beat up pretty quickly from the handful of students who had no idea what they were doing.

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The reason they brag is that NYFA only offers the RED to 2 year students, 1 year students gets a 3 hour lecture on how the camera works from production to post. But I skipped that class cause I was working on a RED shoot. The 2 year students only have four projects (including a feature) which all are shot on the REDone. The school in Union square has at least 3 RED's that I know of. 1 year students can shot their thesises on the RED but can not use the school's due to the 2 year usage. Which is good cause you should go through the trouble of renting to help you establish contacts and get ready for real life. I was thinking about shooting on the RED for my thesis but I wanted to shoot super 16 one last time. NYFA is a good trade school that gets a bad rep, because it has more hands on then theory (and a lot of lazy students that only want to direct and not learn the trade).

Film schools I know that has the RED is NYU I believe, Columbia in Ny is still on the fence. Drexel and Temple both ordered one or is still in the process of ordering last time I heard.
 
DePaul here in Chicago has two RED ONEs plus the RPPs. I think their RED's are used mainly by faculty who teach the courses by heading their projects and having the students fill in crew positions.

Pretty good concept. I got experience on one they shot with the EX1 couple years ago.
 
I have a friend in 3rd year at Ryerson in Toronto, who told me that they recently acquired a few Red Ones and are making them available to 4th year students.
 
The Savannah College of Art and Design has two One's (haha) but unfortunately they will probably not be available for student use before next fall. Hopefully, we'll be investing in the new RED system...
 
NYFAsucks said:
NYFA seems to be the only establishment bragging about RED usage.
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The fact that NYFA does hints it's not a real school and
borderline scammer. So what..2 years 90% of colleges will
have a red/scarlet. Really you want to go to a film school that
has good quality students and instructors cause they will show
you how to use the tools. The cameras are just the tools.

http://nyfasucks.blogspot.com/2010/01/pay-per-click-ads.html

They spend $837 a day on internet ads..not to mention rollergirls
Hilarious...sounds like scene out of some 70'-80's cheapie

Today I saw a woman in a tight NYFA tank top and short shorts rollerblading down the sidewalk on Broadway, handing out NYFA flyers. Really? Flyers? How can any of the students there even pretend they are going to a real school?
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Sheridan College has a RED One. That's where I've gotten most of my RED training.

The unfortunate thing is that students aren't too good at taking care of equipment that isn't theirs. The thing to learn is not that the RED is or isn't good, or how to use it. It's that a camera is a camera, and you should still expose, light and handle it properly.

However, I'm undecided on the RED. Not sure whether I like it or not. I've been on sets where it's been good and acted well, but I've also been on sets where it's held us back because of glitches and various technical issues.

I'll be working with it more in a couple of months, and i'm looking forward to working with it again.
 
we just got in a Red @ my UNI but I got to say I am steering well away from it since I've used it on sets quite a bit, s16mm is all I need Aaton the master of handheld!
 
It's used at Chapman a bit, usually rented from alumni that purchased their own cameras a while back, mostly because the alumni give great discounts for current students. Hardly anyone seems to know how to use one, it's mostly being used by the undergraduate students. My brother is editing his first RED project and he's being forced to use a weird AVID workflow the school has set up. It's taken about a week and a half to transcode everything through Metafuze with their settings and on the school's computers. Needless to say we were both wondering about just loading everything into FCP or Premiere at home and having a good day but the post infrastructure at Chapman is entirely based around some deal they have with AVID, so what can we do?

Nearly everyone has the mentality of "We came here to film on film" at Chapman. The teachers support it, preach it, and never cease their insults towards the RED and its workflow every single day. Also, they mimic the negative claims that the RED's true ISO is 160 and not 320. It's amazing how people can't seem to grasp the concept of ISO ratings and their relation to the lenses that they use (ie. If you're filming in low-light and you want to see, use fast lenses dummy!). Also, you can't imagine the looks people give you when you mention the new HD video DSLR cameras, hardly anyone seems to pay any attention to what's going on in the industry. I get the feeling that people are still equating the term "HD" with 1/3" HD video. Little do they realize that they'd probably have a much easier time using a Canon 7D than their usually busted up (and noisy) 16mm or S16mm cameras that are normally used.
 
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