High school senior college question: Pure Liberal Arts or Film Major?

Please give me your your opinion on my choices.
I am 17 and will in a senior next year, planning to attend a four year college when I graduate (just looking now).
I enjoy movies a lot and have made a few short videos with friends (iMovie projects). I have been thinking about film (production or studies) as my college major, partly because I want to be sure I can get a job when I finish college. Applying only to colleges that have a film program or film studies narrows the options for me (the ones I could get in to). There would be more colleges to apply to, obviously, if I am ok with just taking a few media studies courses as electives or doing a media studies minor.

Here is my question: If I'm not 100% positive at this point in my life that I want to do film as my main work, would I be better off getting a Liberal Arts degree (maybe English or History major), and then taking a few film courses in college, and maybe some production courses during summer, or working as a summer intern to see if I really like film?

After reading the posts on this board I have pretty much ruled out applying to a pure technical arts-film school.
I'm also wondering whether going to a film school or majoring in film is any guarantee of work (more so than majoring in English or History which I also enjoy)---doesn't sound like it.

Thank you for opinions.

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My thought on this...

I think it's better to get a degree in something OTHER than film, even if you want to pursue a film career. After all, you want to have some subjects for your film, right? Seriously consider getting a degree in english and/or history as an undergraduate. You need a context for your films, and the degree will allow you to tell more meaningful and structured stories, I think.

No film program will guarantee you work. Some schools have better track records than others though. you should ask the prospective film schools what percentage of their graduates go on to work in the industry.

Seriously though-- get a full and broad education about a lot of stuff. Then when you make your movies, they will actually be about something.

Good luck!
W

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