Stoney-Bones wrote:Canada seems pretty cool to me. I have seen beautiful pictures of the Canadian Rockies and part of British Columbia! You know like 50% of the weed in America comes from B.C. Canada (the statistic is similar to this). Decrimilization seems like the way to go, as full legalazation would of course allow marketing or pot and alot of other bullshit. Decrimilazation just plain out makes sense if you smoke weed or not surely you know someone who does and would proably agree with me that there is no need to spend ridiculouse amount of jail time and taxes on keeping some stoner in jail. I am finishing Graphic Design School this year and am looking to go to the Vancouver Film School for there sound design program.
http://www.vfs.com/curriculum.php?program_id=11
It is 48 week intensive program in which you leave with a DigiDesign Pro Tools certification. Check it out if you haven't heard of VFS it looks like the best program for the kind of sound design education I am looking for. Plus I can smoke all the B.C. Bud I can buy and will have to wake up 5 days a week to learn about physics sound, synthesis, Reaktor, sync video, Pro Tools, 5.1 surround sound mixing & encoding, & mastering, and towards the end you get to use those hot Digidesign 48-channel ProControl's with a movie screen for synching your audio sequence with the video! oh man oh man....I cant wait to get up to that place! Fuck Art History and Writing and Literature! Graphic Design is cool but there are lots of down falls to going to school for it as it is kind of a trend now which means more competition and you have to take alot of classes that dont seem relevant to (art history, literature, etc.) design. I am gonna finish this year up and than go up to CAnada to attend VFS and if things dont work out financialy with sound design I can always fall back on good ole Graphic Design. Although I would much rather be starring at Logic/Pro-Tools every morning than Illustrator/Photoshop
-stoney
Hey Stoney (um.....
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Well congrats on making a choice to come to Vancouver. I think you'll will find the city and other outlying regions to be one of the the most beautiful places in the world to live. (no shittin - Vancouver was rated second most liveable city in the world behind some town in Austria/Switzerland I think
just last year ) .
Yes I agree that pot should also be decriminalized but in fact, here in BC, it's very liberal and basically treated like that already by most law enforcement agencies (i.e. if you have a small amount on you for personal the worst they will do is fine you like 100$). Their main concern is the connection to organized crime that exports alot of this stuff to the US as well as the hard drug use which is rampant in certain parts of Vancouver ( i.e. try the downtown eastside, actually a close walk from VFS
). This problem is mainly related to poverty and availability of cheap drugs in this particular area (like any larger city). Not the progression from smoking weed.
Anyways, moving away from the negative; I attended VFS in 2000 and thoroughly enjoyed myself there. I actually took their New Media course (now defunct), which has recently been divided into two separate programs Interactive Media, and the course your interested in, Sound Design for Visual Media. I've checked their website recently
http://www.vfs.com/fullTime.php?program_id=11 and drooled over some of the new equipment since I was there. They definitely strive to stay on top of the technology.....please refer to osxaudio.com if you have any questions?!!
Yeah theres some excellent teachers there also.
As far as employment in sound design goes, I think your best bet is to get into post production sound for film as there are alot of movie and tv series shot around town (hollywood north is the name). Also you might wanna try some volunteer stuff right away at some of the local studios. Studios like Warehouse and mushroom are world class. Hey if that doesn't work, like you said, you can always fall back on Graphic Design
. I'm actually doing webdesign, flash, graphics and programming as my day job.
When I took my course it was only 40 weeks and cost me around $18,000. Within two years time their fulltime programs are now around $27,000 and are 8 weeks longer. All I would suggest is take the program sooner rather than later.
Hey if your up in Vancouver you'll have to make the hour and half ferry ride over the Vancouver Island maann......and smoke some of dat shit with me. Also make a trip out to Long Beach on the west coast. Definitely worth it! Yep, when your done work for the day or need a little creative motivation, smoke a phat and take a walk on the beach. aaahhhhh!!!! good times.
high times.... (thats right, everyone in the T-dot wishes they had it this nice) Anyways signing off
Feel free to ask me any further questions you might have.
Steve
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