Posted by Midiguitar on 02/18/06 15:15

Be careful about Fullsail.

I'm not saying you wont learn, but they promise the moon and deliver
a pizza.

Google around about dissatisfied fullsail students before you give
them $20K




On 17 Feb 2006 14:52:58 -0800, "nobody special" <msu1049321@aol.com>
wrote:

>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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