How would I become a professional movie critic? Degrees required? Where should I!
Question: Any advice, thoughts, or personal experiences would be great.
Answers: Any advice, thoughts, or personal experiences would be great.
Usually a degree or previous experience in theater or film is required. You may be able to get amateur positions with college magazines or smaller outfits without having a degree. I would start by calling a local paper or magazine and asking them what they require. They usually want examples of your work. You could also look into internet sites and public blogs to get experience.
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First, try to get Roger Ebert to adopt you.
try goin on monster.com and check what qualifications you need.
you would have to get some sort of notoriety somehow... I would think a degree in film and a golden personality and some really good friends at the top if you want to do it on tv or for large publications..... you could do an article in the college paper or local paper and build on your skills.... it will be a long road with no guarantees of actually making it whatsoever.... try local small publications first.
You'd probably want to get into journalism somewhere. I don't think there's any way to major in being a movie critic, but journalism would teach you the article-writing skills you'd need. You could possibly get a minor in film or something, as well, so you're pretty familiar with the business.
Other than that, start developing opinions about things! Get an internship working for a local newspaper, and work your way up from there. I have no experience in the world of the professional critic, but that's how I imagine it works.
Try creating your own movie critic blog and build content on that. Then spread the word about that and people can pick up on it, and hopefully a magazine can stumble upon it. You can also write reviews for your local paper (ask them how you can do that) or if you are in school, write for your school paper for starters. But yes, my first suggestion would be to start your own movie critic/review blog first and branch out from there.
There are no degree requirements, and most movie critics who write for magazines or newspapers only do so part-time, and keep another job on the side.
Film critics don't get paid that much, unless you're lucky enough to secure your own TV show like Ebert & Roeper. Which probably won't happen.
i'm curious about what people will answer. i would assume some sort of background in film studies would definetely be a requirement. and then of course connections with the right people to ever be taken seriously.