Good Grad Schools for Film Scoring

College Majors Music Major
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<p>Anybody know of any good places? I'm only aware of USC, UCLA, and NYU - there has to be more. (Berklee has no grad program that I'm aware of.)</p>

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<p>Check out:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/213049-best-grad-schools-film-music.html?highlight=WindCloudUltra[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/213049-best-grad-schools-film-music.html?highlight=WindCloudUltra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Hello,</p>

<p>I think Miami may be a very good school for film scoring.</p>

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<p>Hi Kevin,</p>

<p>Here’s another thread to read:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/825236-film-scoring-mere-trade-not-art-form.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/825236-film-scoring-mere-trade-not-art-form.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Don’t misunderstand me–not trying to curb your enthusiasm, but so much in the profession has changed that looking at where X or Y composer went to school, or how s/he traced a career path, won’t necessarily help you figure out how to make a living in this profession nowadays.</p>

<p>Here’s the original article that formed the topic of that CC thread:
[Film</a> composers lose luster - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety](<a href=“http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012324.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&ref=bd_film]Film”>http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118012324.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&ref=bd_film)</p>

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<p>Film composition, like film music, has been relegated to something that the bean counters figure can be like much of pop music these days, in effect created by computer sampling by someone who otherwise probably knows little about music. </p>

<p>My only hope is that like the crap that passes for most pop music these days (which has led I suspect in part to the decline in CD sales and the like; it isn’t just illegal downloading, it is that people I suspect have found the stuff they are putting out there so generic they don’t want to pay for it). I think quite honestly that with movies, that if they put out the synthesized, regurgitated crap that comes out of sample libraries and such, that unless it is low budget moviemaking, it is going to hurt them. With music, I think that the studio heads don’t have a clue but I think eventually they are going to realize what music does. You see it already with Michael Giachino, whose scores for Lost and for movies like Star Trek and “UP!” are credited for helping make them successful. I doubt it will be as it was 50 or 60 years ago, when they would hire someone like stravinsky to do a movie score for 100k, or having studio orchestras and such, but I suspect the schlockmeisters aren’t going to be totally in control either.</p>