Posted by nobody special on 02/17/06 22:52

There are a number of schools and workshops around the U.S. Two of the
short, highly compressed programs I know of that are legitimate are the
Rockport workshops and the Sony schools. You go in there to learn a lot
about one thing for a week, and you leave with hands-on experience in
it.

Other tech-vocational school type operations exist like Fullsail and
the Vancouver place (the name of which escapes me). There are as many
film and video schools in California as there are coffee shops. USC,
UCLA and Cal Arts come to mind. California and New York also host a
number of "learn the entire business from end to end in a weekend"
outfits that may not be all they are cracked up to be. New York has
some fine university programs, SUNY and the New School among them. as
do a few universities in Chicago, places like Northwestern and
Columbia.

You could spend anything from a grand for a week-long intensive
workshop to many thousands over several semesters of university
training, with concentrations on writing, lighting, editing, shooting,
directing, and more. If you're serious about this, I would decide what
I wanted to concentrate on most, and start web searching for schools
that teach that.

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