Responsibility, and some sense of basis in learning in mastering and also to teach. No rails about Full Sail, though I was just as much negative on it as anyone in the beginning as a for profit trade school with overall a lack of training in what's useful. Much more respectable now as a school, it's accredited now. It is a trade school, so does not teach the full spectrum of a full college education. Inkie, an inactive early member of the forum from Argentina went there and worked and lived with me for a while. Now
thru training, this website, that school and personal studies and ability is in a place to become if not already a world famous lightting designer, the next. He as a friend went far from his high school posts from Argentina on the forum... to school at Full Sail, to working where I work, to another place in now a designer on tour.
Responsibility in the first time... I became a rigger, much less the TD.... If I didn't know something, I did research, ask what I didn't kow, and did train myself until I was sure I was safe in doing something. This to the
point of years later quoting out the rigging replacement for "Its' a Small World" Disney Land.... I spent weeks learning, quoting and re-quoting that project. A
bit above my experience
level... but in given the task, was my ability to learn and do the task. Did the final quote for a huge project and did not get it a few years ago.
No experience with that type of project... Could I have been the lead tech for the project... yes, by the time I finished studying. Same with many of my installs... Never done that before, than starts the research into how. Nobody trained me in
LED tape/neon/digital technology. When I started quoting out projects, It was doing rope light stars and shapes 55 stories up on some Chicago towers.. I said we cannot do this in finishing the quote. I was told we are doing this, and was too early in my career to say no. Finally the Building Manager said no to the project... after some discussions with me and actual engineers.
An education, including Full Sail is meant to start a proscess, as with college of what has been done or how to improve... what's the concept of a confetti
roll drum. Your task is to
build one... Nobody taught me how to
build one, my job to
build one... you have two days. Education in while often people without don't go further without a lot of aptitude and personal study is in that spark. Some form of college or trade school such as full sail.
College is if at all possible the best optiong for a well rounded education in the world, while also studying theater. A trade skill Full sail is a short cut but does not give the well rounded education or understanding.
