Hello everyone,

I've been thinking of possibly reorganizing the forums once again.

It's been a nice experiment having a forum for each school but it has become a little unwieldy and unfortunately has caused confusion and people posting exact messages in multiple forums. (it will make finding and killing spam easier too)

I'm beginning to think that it's it's better to "Keep It Simple Stupid". Simpler probably is alot better. There just are really way way too many forums.

So it would be like this:

----- Studentfilms.com Site News & Questions
- Site News
- Film Submission FAQ

----- Film School Reviews and Advice
- Undergraduate Film Schools
- Graduate Film Schools
- Technical Film Schools

----- Filmmaking
- Short Films
- General Filmmaking Discussion
- Screenwriting and Pre-Production
- Film Production
- Film Post Production

----- Film Festivals and Composers
- Composer Classifieds
- Crew Classifieds
- Film Festivals

----- Miscellaneous Topics
- Film Discussions
- Off Topic Discussions
- Cool Filmmaking Sites


I think this will be much simpler and much easier to navigate. Also the search function would be better implemented so you can find topics about certain schools that you are interested in.

After a couple of months trying the new way - it appears that the old way was better to me. "Keep it Simple Stupid"

It was worth the try though - let me know what you think.

p.s. - I've been MIA recently because I just had my second son... so I've been busy.

Perhaps some bit of text in the 'create a new post' page saying that the subject you choose, if you're addressing a certain school, should contain (start with) that school since there will no longer be school-specific sections...

Example:

Now you have "Applications 2011" under Western Carolina University (not really, I know. They totally do film though)

And after the revamp you would put "Western Carolina University - Applications 2011" as the subject because there won't be (there never has been or will be) a Western Carolina section.

Which I hope makes sense.

Otherwise I'm all for it.

EDIT: congratulations on the wee one.

I'm not sure how to add the custom text - but we can certainly edit the post title afterwards to reflect that.

And hopefully for new posts people will get the idea and name their topics accordingly.

maybe have a filter of sorts when you go into a specific forum (i.e. graduate film schools. filters: AFI, USC, UCLA, Chapman, etc etc.)
that shows only stuff that is tagged as so..
I don't know what capabilities the forum are able to perform, but just a suggestion if possible.

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Originally posted by Mike_V:
maybe have a filter of sorts when you go into a specific forum (i.e. graduate film schools. filters: AFI, USC, UCLA, Chapman, etc etc.)
that shows only stuff that is tagged as so..
I don't know what capabilities the forum are able to perform, but just a suggestion if possible.

Doesn't searching for those terms fulfill that function?

I was thinking of a more active filter. Say a set of filters like that on ebay or amazon where you can click on "show threads related to these schools" and below it a list of all the schools.