Met Film School london

So far my experience have been great. The team is very welcoming and always ready to help you around with anything. Very good introduction and process. I really recommend it!

I did the 4 week Acting for Film Level 1 course and it was definitely worth it. We had a wonderful course tutor for the 4 weeks and had weekly guest teachers who are industry professionals and experts which was great! The classes are small so there is personalised attention and focus. The campus is small and easy to get around.

I've been on the intensive 1-Year MA in Directing Film for 6 months. Following a conversation with a colleague, I was interested to see what people had to say about this place. I am quite surprised to see that a few people have had bad experiences. I am 29 years old and have been trying to find work in the film industry for at least 10 years, doing a few freelance jobs here and there, whilst supporting myself in various boring, difficult jobs over the years; construction, hospitality, IT. But coming to MET... These guys are awesome! Finally! I've been around enough to tell the difference between people who know and people who only pretend to know. MET know. For sure. I'm getting a structured understanding, rooted in a very well made curriculum which has been carefully designed to focus on collaboration between departments. I've done loads of extra work (background actors) on major movie sets and I can promise you this is exactly how it works. I know they are teaching me how it works because of all these random experiences and things I've seen are being put together in a cohesive, logical, meaningful way. We then go and try things out and guess what... everything runs like clockwork! The kit, which ranges from FS-7 to Arri Alexa for graduation film, is worth £200k+ and would be easily as much £70-100k should you hire it for the 7 - 10 individual films you make during the course. The studio is used for real world feature film productions. The campus is within Ealing Studios, the oldest continually running movie studio in the world. Although we are not really supposed to talk to professionals working there, I am from Brentford and have grown up with some of the guys around, so I am making contacts now too. Some days, MET books high specialised professionals (actors, casting directors, 1st ADs etc.) to come in and speak to us, people so busy and successful they can only do one day a year (and they are not shy about telling you their jaw-dropping credits! 100% legit!). If they take a liking to you, they give you their contact details and tell you to get in touch. There is even a whole department called ‘MET Futures’ whose focus is solely on getting you employment in the real world! And this is not to speak of ‘Research in Screen Practice’, the academic module with proper Harvard referencing, PowerPoint presentations by students, cutting edge film-world theories etc. etc. What more could you ask for? I don't think there's anything wrong with me saying this of my own free will, just based on my own personal experiences. I used to scrape together knowledge like diamonds mined from the coal face. Now I see the bigger picture. Now I am flying around the mountain in a chopper (metaphorically)! Although they put a lot of stress on what they call 'smart screen creatives' (the wider media industry; webseries, documentaries, vlogging, commercials etc) personally I think the education it will give you in major feature film production is, realistically, about the best education you could feasibly get anywhere in the world. I just can’t imagine how they would teach us better, short of actually making a $100m feature film, and even then you get drama, like any other big job in the world. Did I mention; by pure coincidence, it turned out the best 3rd AD I ever worked for on a major movie set just happened to come from MET? He was so good, after 3 weeks in Scotland together (shooting MQOS), me and the lads bought him an expensive bottle of local whiskey to show our appreciation for how he had looked after us so well. No university is perfect, just like no Google Review is truly perfect. But the things MET does get right – wow! I am certain some students writing bad reviews on here are justified in their grievances but I do also think what a lot of students don’t understand is that working in Film & TV is a privilege not a right. I am just so happy to finally have an actual solid pathway to success and be learning so much.

I did a weekend course (Intro to Filmmaking) and I really liked it. My expectations were exceeded.

I took the two week Film Acting residential course last summer and I enjoyed it and loved it more than any other course I have ever done. The teaching, course criteria and service was outstanding. I am generally a shy person but I felt welcomed and comforted by the atmosphere as soon as I arrived. No course anywhere is cheap when it comes to learning about the screen industry, but it’s my passion and though it was hard for me to afford, it was definitely worth it! I was so happy with it that I have enrolled for the four week filmmaking course for this coming summer...sooooooo excited!!!!

I had a terrible experience in this school, the lecturers were useless.. they like to stop you from getting equipment, and the general attitude is "its difficult and you are unlikely to ever succeed". demoralising. so happy I don't ever need to go back!