Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
I ended up getting to do a lot of student films - no budget: somebody just wrangled up a camera and went to shoot stuff - and it was fun. It was great.
I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects are my students' projects that I act in or I do a cameo.
We have people building models in Roblox for their Mayan ruins history project, or we've had people build tornadoes for their weather project. Roblox can be used in a lot of different ways.
The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.
I had done student films for the School Of Visual Arts and for NYU and all these schools in New York, so those were my first film experiences, but they were student films, so I guess they don't really count.
I like working with students a lot and watching some of the amazing stuff they put together.
I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.
