DALLAS FILM SCHOOL
DALLAS
and FORT WORTH, along with ARLINGTON, TEXAS collectively are the 6th
largest DMA in the U.S. There are over 50 FM stations and 30 AM
stations serving the market, ranging from country to religious to talk
to sports to rock and Hispanic. One such station, WRR, a
classical music station, is the second oldest commercially operated
radio station in the U.S. Univision Radio, the largest
company in the Hispanic broadcast business is headquartered in
Dallas. Being deep in the Bible Belt, there is also a strong
religious broadcast presence. Sports also field a strong presence
with both the Dallas Cowboys and Texas Rangers on the scene. So
whatever direction you’re interested in taking your radio career, RADIO
CONNECTION’s proven Mentor/Apprentice Radio Program can get the results
you are looking for right here in the Dallas area. Celebrities born in Dallas include Owen Wilson, Greg Vaughan, Angie Harmon, Lane Garrison, Aaron Spelling, Anne Rice, Bill Paxton, Roger Miller, Sharon Tate, Robin Wright Penn, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Owen Wilson, Usher, Ashlee and Jessica Simpson. The Dixie Chicks were formed in Dallas. Both ZZ Top and the heavy metal band Pantera are from the Dallas area. Texas in general, and Dallas in particular were hot music spots as far back as the 1920s. The Deep Ellum area was a jazz and blues hotspot featuring artists such as Robert Johnson, Leadbelly, Bessie Smith and Blind Lemon Jefferson. The current local music scene is both active and diverse helping to sustain local recording studios and provide in-studio, real-world, hands-on mentor/apprentice learning situations for students of RECORDING CONNECTION’s Mentor Apprentice Recording Program.
TV Series shot in Dallas include Barney & Friends, Walker Texas Ranger, Wishbone, the Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, and The Benefactor. The list of feature films shot in Dallas is impressive: Bonnie and Clyde, Benji, Silkwood, Robocop, Batman & Robin, The X Files, Primer and Bewitched. With almost 30 TV stations in the market--as well as the 545 feature films, TV series and specials acknowledged by IMDB to have been made in Dallas, with more to come-- there are a multitude of mentor apprentice opportunities for those looking to produce, direct, operate a camera, lights or sound equipment. If your dream has you working in TV or feature films, FILM CONNECTION’s TV or Film Schools have a perfect on-the-job course for you. Before you know it, you will be working on a film set, a TV studio or location shoot receiving one-on-one training from an industry professional. Over the last twenty years, FILM CONNECTION has developed the mentor apprentice approach to Film and TV Schools to perfection.
This bodes well for the Dallas student interested in a broadcasting career. By enrolling in Dallas FILM CONNECTION, you will be trained one-on-one by a mentor—who is a professional in the broadcasting industry in the discipline you want to study—in real broadcasting sessions: on the films set, the tv studio, and remote location shoots in your choice of curriculums. You will graduate in six months from FILM CONNNECTION with weeks of actual on-the-job experience and dozens of industry connections ready to commence a career in your chosen field of the Film or TV industry. Often, you will have been hired for your first industry job before you have graduated.
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