The competition?

Well this was bound to happen.  When we first proposed this course, there was nothing like this around:

NYVS  is  the  World's  Top  Online  Film  School

NYVS provides anyone with a video camera an easy and affordable way to learn to make films and videos like a Hollywood professional.

As a NYVS member you'll have access to video courses, critiques, tutorials and a learning community that will help you quickly become a master at video editing, video production, videography, iMovie, Final Cut Pro and much more!

http://www.nyvs.com/

It's video tutorial driven on a subscription model (not a bad annual rate at all), but there are some real parallels with T156 - a good dose of social media learning, a practical focus, and aimed fairly and squarely at video production for the web.  I'm certainly curious enough to subscribe, and I suspect I'll get as much out of it as a film maker as the time I put in.

Looks like it's been going since about August last year, and a lot longer than that in previous forms.  It's a bit disappointing not to be the first large scale attempt in this mode, when we've been marking time to get the go-ahead. But given their introductory tutorials have around 2,500 hits in less than 6 months, I think it's a good demonstration that there's a market there.  The interesting figures will be the hits per tutorial behind the paywall.

So given there's some similarities between what they offer and what we plan to - the obvious next question is what are the differences.  Any opinions?