| Vancouver Film School has a "Sound Design for Visual Media" program. I went there. There is VERY little focus on music. Its all about audio post, you learn a ton. It covers all elements of the audio process for film in great depth. Also some cool courses on video game sound, synthesis, acoustics, etc. Its a lot of fun and Vancouver is beautiful. You spend a ton of time on Pro-Tools and come out an editing machine. Like any school though the more you put in the more you get out. The only down side I would say is there is not much of an audio post industry in Vancouver so you will eventually have to move to find work. One thing to consider is to study where you plan on living (probably LA or NYC) that way you have time to make some contacts to hopefully land something when you walk out. I left VFS and headed to NYC and despite knowing a lot about audio post it all boils down to connections which took me years to make (and still working on it). Some of my friends who went to NYU for film opened a studio and got a fair share of work from first time film makers in there program as well as people they knew, etc. So that is something to consider. As far as the program at VFS though I can not recommend it enough if you really want to just learn about audio post and not music. |