Full Sail University

 

Full Sail University, does this school give you all the resources you need to succeed in the entertainment industry? 

I can answer this question, yes indeed.  FS is one of the best if not the best entertainment school to go through to receive your degree in the entertainment industry.  It doesn’t matter what you need to succeed, Full Sail is able to offer it to you.  I enrolled in Full Sail University back in 2009, I earned my BS degree in Entertainment Business and I went on to pursue my MS degree in the entertainment business.  It was a great experience and it gave me the skills that I need to make it in the industry.  I had hands on assignments that I was able to apply to my real life situations. 

I think that the most challenging part of Full Sail University is that the classes are crammed to give you the knowledge, and that’s what makes it challenging.  I am very excited that I will be graduating in the next few days.   

Full Sail offers a variety of courses for anyone who wants to get in the business, such as:

Entertainment Business

Game Design

 Computer animation

Creative writing

Film

Game art

Sports Marketing & Media

Recording arts

Recording engineering

Graphic design

 And many more……….

Full Sail University has many different courses.  I have learned everything that I needed to know to start my own business in the industry from behavior science to finances.   I am able to go back to FS as alumni and get any information that I may need.  It offers you an array of information to succeed.  They offer online interviews with people who are I the industry or who have worked in the industry for many of years.

Full Sail’s institutional graduation rate is 81% compared to 49% for all US higher education institutions.  The online classes contain and offer information that physical classrooms offer as well.  Full Sail University is a great school to attend.  It’s the best opportunity for an individual wanting to pursue a business in the entertainment industry.  You must have patience, organizational skills, and you cannot procrastinate you will never complete anything. 

360 DEAL

Heather McDonald of about.com defines The 360 Deal, as contracts that allow a record label to receive a percentage of the earnings of all of a bands activity instead of just record sales.  Under 360 deals, also called “multiple rights deals”, record labels may get a percentage of things that were previously off limits to them, like:

Concert revenue

Merchandise sales

Endorsement deals

Ringtones

http://musicians.about.com/od/ah/g/360deals.htm

It’s like a package deal offering concert booking, and merchandise sales, etc.  It is a deal with the record company, in which the record company participates in the income of all aspects of an artist career, in addition to making money off the records.  It seems to me that the label is also the artist manager; the label is involved in all deals of the artist revenue.  I believe this could be a good deal, the “one stop shop” you could call it, and the label with everything the artist will need to enhance the artist career. 

A good example is Live Nation; the Madonna deal was $120 million, Jay-Z signed a deal as well, with the concert promoter worth roughly $150 million.  Live nation is the promoter and the deal makes them the exclusive promoter.  Money is made from the concerts; merchandise sales (in which the sales are made through the website and at concerts), and touring.  This deal could be a win situation as long as the artist pays close attention to what comes with the deal. 

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1727519,00.html