2008 - Interview Offers from NYU or Columbia yet? (2 Viewers)

[Bandar Albuliwi]

Hey,

I received my NYU Singapore interview today. Anybody else receive it?

 

[redpokiepenguin]

quick question: any of you people that got interviews at the nyu campus choose producing as your discipline?

 

[Calliegrl03]

I did!
For March 20th...

 

[Bandar Albuliwi]

Are you flying to Singapore?

 

[Calliegrl03]

Nope...I'm doing a video conference.

 

[Allen Ho]

Hey I got the email for Singapore too.

How are they arranging the video conference? Is it going to be in NYC?

 

[Calliegrl03]

I'm not sure yet. Waiting for a reply to that answer.

 

[sophiedog]

AHHHHHH I just got a call to interview at Columbia!!!!!!! So excited

 

[Calliegrl03]

Congrats Sophie!

 

[Allen Ho]

Congrats Sophie,

Eek now I am getting a little anxious.

I just replied to the Singapore email and told them I will be in the NYC area March 19th-21st. I opted for the video conference option but I also let them know I am willing to do it in person in NY if there is someone there to interview me.

A video conference seems like it'd be a weird experience. I hate it when cameras are pointed at me! I belong behind the camera, not in front of one...

 

[Bandar Albuliwi]

I told them I will be in NYC March 20th - 21st and would love to do it in person at the main NYU Campus or via Video Conference from the NYU Campus.

Allen, did you have your AFI Interview yet?

 

[Calliegrl03]

I really hope we get calls, ji...

 

[Allen Ho]

Hey Bandar,

I actually didn't apply to AFI. In retrospect, I kind of wish I did, I had all the application materials ready, but I just decided not to at last minute for a reason I can't recall now.

 

[grabbag]

Originally posted by Allen Ho:
congrats robertish and birdman,

eeek i guess that means they are calling this week. anyone have any info on how many people they are calling?

New to the forum, though I've been patrolling for a while. The person I spoke with at Columbia said they are interviewing about twice as many applicants as will be accepted, which led me to believe that most every person admitted will have been interview.

Now, for the dialogue scene I did the museum.

 

[Allen Ho]

Hmm I think their wikipedia page says they accept roughly 65 MFA students per year, so I assume that means they'll be calling around 120-130 people.

 

[redpokiepenguin]

so no one did producing at nyu?...nothing. in any case congrats to the columbia interviewees

 

[heywetried]

Hey all. I got a request to interview for Singapore, too. Yay... sort of. ;-)

I wonder how many people will actually spend the $1000 to fly out for the interview, considering so many of us didn't actually apply there...

I'm really nervous about Columbia now that they've started notifying interviewees. I'm going out to NYC for my AFI interview, and I'm going to meet with Columbia's film admissions folk for an informational interview (at my request, not theirs).

All this talk about accepting people without an interview smells so fishy that I can hardly believe it. Maybe... it's simply an insurance clause for Columbia in case they don't like enough people from the interviews, and end up with two or three slots, which they have the option of gambling on with the remaining applicants at the last minute.

But that also seems not plausable... I'm going to ask about this specifically and in person when I'm out there, and I'll report back anything I find out.

I just hope I don't get my hopes up in vain!

 

[d_lefeb]

Thanks for the info, grabbag! Doesn't look like that many people will be getting into Columbia without an interview, if any.

My interview is scheduled for March 11th in the PM. I'm going to fly in from Montreal. It's affordable and I want to get in THAT BAD. Does anyone know anybody who's been through the interview process before? I'd like to know what it's like and if they have any tips....

I still can't believe I got the call. I've mostly been applying to film studies programs, but I thought I'd give this a shot since the quantity of materials required wasn't excessive.

Oh and I also did the museum I'm so glad I found this board! I've been going through all of this without knowing much about the whole film school application process. So, yay!

 

[heywetried]

Oh, and I also did the museum scene... at the time I felt it had the most potential, and wasn't tied to the premise, but I don't even remember the other ones. I'm sure they were just as open-ended.

I assume that a lot of people's instinct was to have a kind of super-original and unexpected gimmick or twist to anchor the scene on, just like short films are often so attached to the "final minute twist ending." I imagined that a short short short film would be even more so.

So... I tried to avoid that completely, and man, it was hard. My scene focused on a conversation where the woman is hiding from someone who she thinks has been stalking her. Previously, she was too embarrassed to admit her suspicions to the man, even though it is obvious to the audience that something is up. The man dismisses her concerns anyway, and goes to talk to the other man at the end of the scene.

I described the space and the exhibit, and made it part of the interaction, and I also tried to tie in a lot of character moments which suggested a larger world but didn't elaborate or explain any of it. I also wanted to create moments that would be exciting for actors to portray as well as tell a good yarn, which, my theory goes, will elevate the filmed project (this is a new way of working for me that I've been developing for the last year or so). I hope that they recognize what I was after.

I would be happy to read other people's take on the scenes, and share my own, too.

 

[Allen Ho]

Yeah, I kept trying to think of really crazy creative and gimmicky ideas, but then I figured that is what everyone might be doing.

I chose the stranger in the kitchen one and originally I had thought of some gimmicky ideas like "What if, the stranger is actually the child...but from the future!?!" dunh dunh dunh. But then everyone I asked thought of the same thing...so I stopped trying to write the next "Memento" and wrote a normal dramatic and compelling scene.

I ended up making the stranger an associate of the child's estranged father; whom his father has basically sent to coerce the child into leaving with him without telling his mother.