About the Entertainment Connection, continued
Educational Programs
Over the last 23 years more than 11,770 students have graduated from Entertainment Connection programs, creating a vast alumni network worldwide. Founded in 1984 the Entertainment Connection provides educational apprentice programs for the entertainment arts including the film, radio, television and music recording industries.
A
fully accredited academic institution, the Entertainment Connection
programs are certified by the National Private Schools Accreditation
Alliance with mentor programs in more than 100 U.S. cities in all fifty
states. With corporate headquarters in Los Angeles, California and New
York City, the Entertainment Connection schools are unlike any others,
as students learn from successful mentors in real world situations in
real studio and film sets as opposed to simulated classrooms.The Music Recording Connection provides the fundamentals by training students in a real recording studio, with a music recording professional as a mentor. As an apprentice, a student sits in on top music artist's recording sessions in real recording studios. The curriculum teaches the ins-and-outs of the music business from microphone placement, to running the audio board, to interacting with talent, to creating the final mix. To become a recording engineer, music producer, or mixer, Recording Connection qualifies students for a position in the audio recording field.
"I actually went to a school. I am Digi Design
Certified. Where I went to school I kind of, I hate to say this,
I am not going to mention my school where I went but because I wish I
had known about Recording Connections before I went to school. Where I
went to school was sterile. It was a classroom, it was that. Everything
worked perfectly, all the audio was perfect. All the teachers were
perfect, everything was perfect. It was not perfect monetarily
speaking. It was very expensive. It took me 2 years to go through there
and I wish I had heard about and known about Recording Connections when
I was a student. So yeah my backgrounds all live music, signal flow
really isn’t an issue for me. That’s an important part of being in this
business and learning what we are doing here and that’s a big part of
it. So that part I had, That part was cool but knowing how studios work
and how clients react to what you are doing and how other people in the
room affect the client that’s in the booth singing and those
kinds of things. Things you don’t get in school, you get in here
though."The Radio Connection Broadcasting School trains students to become a radio broadcaster, program director, voice-over artist, and promotions director. Students learn, in a one-on-one basis from a working pro in the radio business. The Radio Connection is the original broadcasting school that trains students to become a radio broadcaster, program director, voice-over artist, or promotions director while working as an apprentice inside a real radio station. Students can learn the exciting world of radio from an on-air personality or program director in their own city.
The Film Connection has been mentoring aspiring filmmakers for over 20 years. As such, it prepares students like no other film school. As a mentor or apprentice students learn one-on-one from an industry professional in an actual film production company or on a real film set. Teachers are working pros who train students one-on-one.
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Brian
Levi is another one
of our mentors. He talks about how he came to record Dwight Yoakam's
first album.
