Friday, May 2, 2008

Economic Trends: Go to Los Angeles Film School - the Entertainment-Connection

During these days where many students are weathering the economic storms, the good news today is that this blog will focus on tips for anyone who is interested in becoming a film director, sportscaster, DJ, radio announcer, and also anyone who wants to learn to be a recording engineer, music engineer, or basically anyone who is interested in film schools, radio schools, and recording schools.

The Entertainment Career Connection was founded in 1984 and provides educational apprentice programs for the film, radio, television and the music recording industries. The company has successfully placed graduates into their dream careers in the U.S. and Canada. Plus it is a fully accredited academic institution certified by the National Private Schools Accreditation Alliance with mentor programs in more than 100 U.S. cities in all fifty states.

With a reputation for having the finest radio school, music production and film making schools in the entertainment media industry, unlike any other school, students learn from successful mentors in real life career situations including on real film sets and in active radio shows at actual radio stations as opposed to simulated classrooms where the pressures of client interaction and real deadlines do not exist. Applicants are firstscreened and then re-screened by the very mentors who will teach them.

But here's the best news ... Entertainment Career Connection’s programs can be completed in approximately half the time of degrees obtained from other schools. No experience is required and students can start any time, as opposed to specific semesters, or they can take classes part time during night or weekend sessions, training around a current job.

According to an annual study from PricewaterhouseCoopers, by 2010, the global entertainment and media is projected to expand into a $1.83 trillion industry in 2010, up from an estimated $1.33 trillion in 2005, making for a compound annual growth rate of 6.6 percent. lots of room for jobs here!

Tuition Cost Comparisons (Sources reviewed Oct. 2006) today prove that it is more about which school will provide an education that the industry will take seriously and the reputation of the school. Traditional film schools cost from $20,000 to $140,000, while an Entertainment Connection school starts as low as $4,450.

"If you want to learn to write screenplays don’t go to a regular college and take courses from an instructor who is not making their living in Hollywood. Film Connection Screenwriting School hooks you up with a real screenwriter so you can learn the craft from someone like me while we work on your screenplay," said Christian Darren, Screenwriter and Mentor, Surf’s Up.