In the 70s there wasn't a live audition and interview process for Berklee (you've misspelled the name). This was the case until about 8 years ago. When I was there, there was a program called student ambassadors where high level academic students would interview (one of the 3 parts of the application process now, there is an audition as well) potential students. I interviewed close to 200 students around the country traveling for the school, and I know that about 20% of whoever interviewed actually were considered. This was far from the case in the 70s.MIDI Life Crisis wrote:
I was accepted to Berkley in Boston
You say that you can learn all of this from books like you do in college. I learned nothing from a text book. I learned from private composition lessons, hands on classroom DAW application, and conducting student performers to picture. No book taught me any of that, and all the ones I read had huge mistakes in them. The point is that all of this was hands on, and I personally studied with teachers who are doing several films a year. They have connected me in my move across the country, and I've been able to get tons of work through that (the networking you are saying is missing from school). Also I've been recommended by fellow students who studied Sound Design, among others.
No one I went to school with would do a buy out for $1000. That is a joke, and it's insulting that you would suggest that fresh college graduates know so little about the music business that they would accept something like that. for $1000, I expect to keep my rights and the publishing (writers is obviously not negotiable).
BTW, while I've only spoken of film, I do a lot of commercial work to. I've read over 15 contracts for music licensing, and signed about 6 because of the terms. We are not all wide eyed and stupid. For instance I just did 75 minutes of music a very LB indie 95 minute feature film. He offered $10,000 and I negotiated publishing and copyright ownership. He was fine with that.
I understand that you've made yourself without formal education. I don't disagree with that. I do however disagree with only offering a negative opinion to formal education on a thread where the original question was do you have suggestions for programs, not do you completely suggest that people doing these programs end up on there backs. They only do if they don't make anything from it, as I stated in my original post.
Thanks.
