<p>I'm trying to find my dream school. I can't find a major that covers everything I want, so instead I might do an independent major (or double major/major&minor). I want to prepared to enter almost any aspect in the entertainment industry. I'm looking for a college that is known for it's creative programs: just as music, theatre, cinema, dramatic writing, maybe even broadcasting and business.</p>
<p>Is there any dream school with all of these programs? Please help! I would prefer warm climate schools, but tell me everything you can think of!</p>
<p>Look into Chapman University in Orange County just south of LA. My daughter is sophomore and communications major at UCLA and they certainly have much of what you’re looking for but her friend at Chapman is majoring in broadcast journalism and is doing lots of cool hands-on stuff. For your interests I think it important to be in LA or NYC. My daughter has already interviewed for internships for this coming spring and summer. One interview was with a film production company and one was with a PR firm. Regardless of your concentration in school it is great to get real experience/internships in the business. Kind of hard to do if you are not in or near a major city. You have been given lots of great ideas. Chapman is easier to get into than many mentioned before.</p>
<p>I third Sarah Lawrence, Marlboro, Pitzer, Eugene Lang/Parsons (can do a BA/BFA together, or do them separately), NYU, Oberlin, Hampshire, SUNY New Paltz, SUNY Purchase, Pratt, Rhode Island School of Design, the list goes on. Anything along those lines would do. I also just realized one poster said Iowa- they do have one of the best creative writing programs in the country. Thats worth a look if you’re looking for a more traditional college w/arts</p>
<p>Elon has an innovative communication program and music, theater, business… The only issue I see is that lots of creative majors are intensive and especially music/theater it’s hard to fit in a second major. (not only at Elon, but most good schools).</p>
<p>broadcasting, business, writing, theater, art… all wrapped into one? Sounds like you’d like a school that would give you a lot of freedom to explore your myriad interests, and to take the initiative to create your own major. It actually sounds a lot like Brown. Independent Concentrations are merely an extension of our philosophy of allowing students to explore only what interests them, and finding out what really turns their brains on. And you could apply to get the Brown/RISD dual degree to get the best of both schools.</p>
<p>hey
i went to SUNY Purchase for two years, but I was a liberal arts student so i left.
if you want to make music, go to Purchase. like really, GO there. you can do whatever you want with music. so many opportunities for collaboration so many on campus bands. zillions of kids are studio production majors and zillions are music majors and zillions are composition majors, so there is SOOO much opportunity for collaboration. Theres also a LOT of collaboration between the film kids and musical composition kids. also between the dramatic writers and the acting conservatory (was for a long time and possibly still is ranked number 1 in the country).
the thing is, you cant BE in more than one conservatory at once. you have to pick one, GET IN, and then you can collaborate all you want.
visual arts too, they have that. and dance is AMAZING there and they have a theatre tech conservatory that covers every aspect of technical theatre.
purchase is an AMAZING conservatory school, and you’ll be really happy to be there if you’re in one.
just DON’T, for the love of god, anyone, don’t anyone go if you want to study the liberal arts. absolute waste of your time. the passion really doesn’t translate. it’s the section of the school that draws random kids that go to college because they feel like they should go to college, or because they couldn’t get in anywhere better, or because they couldn’t get in anywhere better and wanted to be hip.
it also used to be a lot more…Bennington… than it is now. They used to have written evaluations and all that jazz way back when, but that’s long gone and the schools gone down hill, the intellectuals stopped coming. They bought some astro turf and art getting sports for strange funding purposes, but the…original…purchasy…types… think that money should be better spent on the music building, kilns etc…
SO
for the arts
GO. really. go. it’s amazing. and the concerts and parties are exxccellent chaotic shirtless. The Stood is a very very very important venue. It has recently come under new management though (Pete McAwesome is the new Stood runner) and in my opinion he ****ed up the layout.
But there is totally a student run gallery in the stood! i had an installation up. (Stood = student center entirely student run)
ALSO there are a few galleries in the Visual Arts building ANNNND The Neuberger Museum of Art is on campus, right in between humanities and the VA, and its a great place to have an internship. they have a hopper a rothko you know you know, and theres great shows that come in.
ALSO there is an Andy Goldsworthy cairn on campus, one of three that form a straight line accross the country. also a big henry moore sits out front.
basically, its a great place to be an artist.
for the rest its gone downhill, i think it used to be magicland but its gone downhill. i left.but i miss it!</p>
<p>ALSO NYC superclose, you can go on a whim for sure. i had a car and it took 35-45 minutes depending, and the train is right in white planes and gets you therein 35-45 minutes depending, and theres a shuttle that takes you to that train in white planes.</p>
<p>also NYU has music business, and the Gallatin School of Individualized Study lets you do whatever you want, with any of the resources at NYU. i have a friend there who studies jazz bass, music production, music business, and german.</p>