The Fémis in pole position, Louis-Light in its wake : these two public schools are needed in the top of the ranking of the Student’s training in the audiovisual sector. In front of the private institutions.

Created in 1986 to take the result of the Idhec, la Fémis is a public school in paris overseen by the ministry of Culture and Communication. It is largely set in the top of the list of courses in audio-visual and the magazine l’etudiant has just been published.

The public is maintained at the top…

With only 5% allowed, the Fémis appears as an ultra-selective. The candidates will have to choose from the competition, the specialty which they will follow for four years: scenario, direction, production, image, sound, editing or decor. In the end, the students will only be between 3 and 12 specialty. Access to la Fémis is theoretically possible with a bac + 2 but, in fact, most of the candidates are holders of a higher diploma: according to the balance of the contest 2015, they were 70% to have a bac + 3 or more at the time of registration.

Also public, Louis-Light, second in the ranking, recruiting in the sections more technical than the Fémis, film, sound and photography. The access is done as soon as bac + 2, the majority of s admitted to having followed a scientific preparatory class or audiovisual, according to the balance sheet of the competition 2015. The school, located the Cité du cinéma in Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis), offers since 2013 a class of “equality of opportunity” to prepare for his contest. It can be followed in parallel with the first, second, or third year of graduate studies.

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… But the private keeps his strengths

at the third place in the standings, the Esra (Nice, Paris, Rennes) is the private school the most cited by his peers. The school has about 200 student s by promotion on its campus in paris, and sixty for each of the other two. By recruiting directly after high school, “the average age of students – between 18 and 20 years – is lower than in the other schools, which enables young people who are motivated,” says Max Azoulay, president of the group Esra.

After two years of teaching generalist and visual aids, students are asked to choose several options for their final year, depending on whether they wish to become directors, screenwriters, editors or producers. The location of the Esra in the Fifteenth arrondissement of paris, near the production companies and major television media, allows students to do regular mini-courses.

The Conservatoire libre du cinéma français (CLCF), founded in 1963, is fourth in the ranking. It is the oldest film school in private Europe. With small promotions (between 24 and 35 enrolled), the hotel is at human size. “The strength of the CLCF is to encourage students to make the most of location shooting as possible,” describes Juliet Leïby, director-general of the CLCF and Cifacom, which belong to the network Studialis. Cifacom offers a BTS trades in the audiovisual sector, as well as two Bachelors (editor special effects artist and audiovisual).

on the fifth place, 3iS has 12000 square meters of plates and studios in Elancourt (Yvelines). The school offers a curriculum postbac in three years, both artistic and technical in the field of image and sound. It welcomes approximately 200 students in cinema and audiovisual.

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