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Old July 10th, 2007, 07:16 AM
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Default Re: sound courses

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Originally Posted by Chris15 View Post
OK, here's my true blue Australian opinion. If you want a practical degree you have 2 options. Box Hill TAFE or come up to Sydney and go to Juliusmedia. Box Hill will be significantly cheaper. If you want a Cert III - basic level qualification, then it's a 2 week course at JM - who are just literally right across the street from our office. From memory they do the course every once in a while at Showtech in Melbourne. Showtech is also the ONLY place I would consider getting a rigging licence from in Australia. I don't want to be taught construction rigging at TAFE, so it would be a case of me coming to Melbourne to do it. And you do need a licence to do rigging here in Australia.
Want to do design? VCA, NIDA, WAAPA and I'm sure there are others. Want to do engineering? UTS is clearly the only acceptable option :P No theatre program though. But if you must take second class, my guess would be somewhere like RMIT would be a good place.
Happy to discuss all this off board if you'd like.

yeah i would be happy to do that, i like the juliusmedia option, might look at applying for a filler course (one where your tested on what you know and then educated on missing bits)
what do we all think of a certificate 3? for audio
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