Full Sail Launches Breakthrough Campus-Wide Initiative; MacBook Pro and Final Cut Studio Now Standard Creative Environment for Incoming Students
Full Sail Real World Education, recognized as a worldwide educational leader in entertainment media, announces Project LaunchBox, a first-of-its-kind campus-wide program that enables Full Sail students with powerful Apple technology to create music, film, games, animation and design.
Winter Park, FL (PRWEB) May 3, 2007 -- Full Sail Real World Education, recognized as a worldwide educational leader in entertainment media, announces Project LaunchBox, a first-of-its-kind campus-wide program that enables Full Sail students with powerful Apple technology to create music, film, games, animation and design.
Project LaunchBox complements Full Sail's programs across six different disciplines by providing students with a complete mobile studio comprising of a MacBook Pro notebook computer loaded with powerful software such as Apple's Final Cut Studio video production suite.
"Apple has proven over time to be a pioneer and a leader in the creative industries, making its products and solutions the obvious choice for Full Sail," said Garry Jones, President of Full Sail. "With a MacBook Pro and powerful software such as Final Cut Studio, Project LaunchBox enables students to express unique stories digitally without limits."
"Full Sail is one of the country's most creative and technically savvy colleges," said John Couch, Apple's Vice President of Education. "We are thrilled to work with Full Sail on this exciting new adventure for the school's students and faculty and can't wait to see the creative projects they produce."
Full Sail selected Apple's MacBook Pro because it provides desktop performance in a thin sleek notebook design, making it ideal for intensive creative tasks involving graphics, video editing and music encoding that are the lifeblood for students interested in pursuing careers in the entertainment industry.
With Project LaunchBox, students have access to Apple's complete line of creative software tools that address the needs of beginners and advanced professionals alike: iLife, Apple's award-winning suite of digital applications that includes iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand and iWeb; and iWork, Apple's productivity suite that enables cinema-quality presentations. The customized
sets of pro-level applications include software packages such as Apple's Logic Pro 7 for music and audio creation and Final Cut Studio for real-time video and motion-graphics production. With this combination, Full Sail students will now have uninterrupted access to the software applications they need and can have their portfolio available at their fingertips.
Whether a student is learning how to develop websites or learning principles of graphic design, photography, sound and/or video manipulation, the student will function daily with industry-standard professional applications that are conducive to a Full Sail student's creative aspirations of becoming a modern day storyteller and a capable business person in the entertainment industry.
"Project LaunchBox is an exciting opportunity to use the creative industry's leading tools," said Full Sail student Andrew Michell. "MacBook Pro and Final Cut Studio will help me to become an industry professional."
About Full Sail
Since 1979, Full Sail Real World Education, a college outside of Orlando, FL, has been an innovative educational leader for those pursuing careers in the entertainment industry. With over 25,000 alumni, graduate credits include work on Oscar, Emmy and GRAMMY-winning projects, best-selling video games, and the #1 grossing U.S. concert tour seven out of the last seven years. Full Sail's 178-acre campus proudly welcomes over 5,000 students from 50 states and 37 countries. Currently, Full Sail offers degrees in the following disciplines: Computer Animation, Digital Arts & Design, Entertainment Business, Film, Game Development, Music Business, Recording Arts, and Show Production & Touring.
Students experience a "real world" education with a professional class structure of 8-12 hours per day and a 24-hour around the clock schedule which earned Full Sail the "Most Innovative Program" Award by the Florida Association of Postsecondary Schools and Colleges. The college has also been named: one of the top three entertainment media colleges by Shift Magazine (alongside the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University); one of the Top Five Game Degree Programs in the world by Electronic Gaming Monthly; one of the "Best Music Programs" in the country by Rolling Stone Magazine; one of the "Best Music Business Departments" in the Schools That Rock: The Rolling Stone College Guide; and one of the Best Film Programs in the country by UNleashed Magazine.
For more information about Full Sail, please visit www.fullsail.com.
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