What are the different paths toward film scoring?

Majoring from Berklee or other famous music college, is it the only way towards film scoring?


Do you have examples of film composers (famous or not) that are not graduates from such universities?|||Danny Elfman is a high school dropout and he does all of Tim Burton's films and also works extensively with Sam Raimi and Taylor Hackford. He got his start by scoring a low-budget independent film that his brother made. When Tim Burton asked him to score Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, he didn't have any orchestration experience at all - he kind of learned it as he went along. Working on independent or student films for free is a good way to learn how to do anything in film - you build up a body of work that you can show when you are angling for a real job, plus you make connections that can benefit you later.|||Danny Elfman is a high school dropout and he does all of Tim Burton's films and also works extensively with Sam Raimi and Taylor Hackford. He got his start by scoring a low-budget independent film that his brother made.