Now, in India education is a big black business. There is lack of well equipped government film institutes. Majority of film institutes not giving quality of education. Private institutes are cheating students by taking lakhs of rupees as a fees. The same sad thing happening with film students again and again. I am not saying that all private film schools are bad. N number of private film schools are in India. But 95% of students can’t join there due to their high fees up to 25 lakhs. They openly demand lakhs of rupees from students.
Highly talented Poor and middle class students can’t afford that much of money to private film schools. For all poor students who wish to learn film making, government film institutes are lifeline. The government film institutes are less in number and not well equipped with all modern instruments. But among those institutes FTII (Film and Television Institute of India, Pune) and SRFTI (Satyajeet Roy Film and Television Institute, Kolkata) are best. As compared to others these two film institutes are best place to learn film making. FTII and SRFTI are two cheap and best institutes to learn art of film making.
Here is the way to join FTII,
About FTII :
The Film and Television Institute of India is situated at Pune and it comes under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of Government of India. Today, the FTII is recognized as the center of excellence across India. FTII is designed for today’s generation filmmakers. FTII is well equipped with all instruments, multi media studio, book, film and video library etc. Here students can get practical hands on experience along with theory classes. Those who want to enter the film industry as a Director, Editor, Cinematographer, Actor, Art Director, Production Head etc they can join FTII by closing eyes without any doubts. But joining FTII is not so easy thing.
Courses Offered by FTII :
For every year FTII offers various long term and short term PG diploma courses in Direction, Editing, Sound Designing, Acting, Art Direction, Cinematography. FTII offers Three years PG diploma courses, One year PG diploma courses and short time workshops.
A) Three Years PG Diploma Courses Offered by FTII :
1) Three year post graduate diploma in Film Direction and Screenplay writing.
2) Three year post graduate diploma in Cinematography.
3) Three year post graduate diploma in Sound Recording and Sound Design.
4) Three year post graduate diploma in Film Editing.
5) Three year post graduate diploma in Acting.
6) Three year post graduate diploma in Art Direction and Production design.
For all these courses Bachelors degree in any stream is compulsory and number of seats is 10. But for Sound design course Bachelors degree with Physics as a subject at senior secondary level ( 12th) is needed. For Art Direction course Bachelors degree in Fine arts and related is needed.
B) One Year PG Diploma Courses Offered by FTII :
1) One Year post graduate diploma Feature Film Screenplay Writing.
2) One Year post graduate certificate course in TV Direction.
3) One Year post graduate certificate course in Electronic Cinematography.
4) One Year post graduate certificate course in Video Editing.
5) One Year post graduate certificate course in Sound Recording and TV Engineering.
For all these courses Bachelors degree in any stream is compulsory and number of seats is 12. But for Sound design course Bachelors degree with Physics as a subject at senior secondary level ( 12th) is needed.
C) Short Time Workshops offered by FTII :
FTII offers various short time workshops as per students demand. The short time courses offered by FTII are Digital Film Editing, Digital Cinematography, Filmmaking courses for childern, Weekend Acting and Film Appreciation etc.
Selection and Admission Process of FTII :
The selection process of FTII involves 3 Steps as,
1) Written Entrance Exam of 100 Marks.
2) Interview and Medical test at FTII campus Pune.
3) Internship at FTII campus Pune.
FTII selects students from all over India for its various courses by toughest entrance exam. Number of students trying to join there is near 5000. But number of seats available for each course is 10 or 12 only. So FTII entrance exam is considered as one of the toughest exam in India. Those who wants to join FTII, they can apply to written entrance exam and after cracking entrance they called for Interview and Internship at FTII campus Pune.
