Originally posted by FilmFanatic:
Lol, Grad, Undergrad, we are all in the same boat to some degree. I think it's the same process, I called Chapman today and they told me pretty much exactly what you guys said. I am nervous but ready. For the undergrad applicants, did you guys put your videos on youtube? I want to so I could get some feedback on it but I am a bit worried about someone stealing my idea.
I was going to put it up on youtube but it re-compresses it and it looks very ****e-like.
I did my video essay as a series of still photographs of great works of fiction, art, sports teams, authors, scientists, artist, philosophers, natural disasters and political demonstrations, upheavals and conspiracy theories as well as places I have traveled to.
Set to the Blackalicious' "Alphabet Aerobics".
The rap artist goes through the letters A-Z in two minutes. I thought the dichotomy of the alphabet done in rapidfire hip hop style and the decidedly ANGLO images lend itself very well into describing who it is that I am. The worlds I am torn between.
I wrote a script I was going to use at first using two female twins who carry on entire conversation in question and answer fashion. It was a tennis match kind of a rapid exposition of myself. But then decided against.
I wrote the Dream Job answer piece as a love letter left to my girlfriend sometime in the future as I go off to my first day on the set as a writer/director. It basically thanks her for sticking by me for all the years, through the late night editing sessions at Dodge when we were supposed to go to dinner, during my work as a script supervisor, an internship given to me by the Chapman Mafia, making sure I had coffee and so forth...and finally...I remember her auditioning as actors by impersonating them so that I could hear how the dialogue in my own script works. She had helped me to get out Prof. Guilano's Screenwriting I class by doing so. It is actually is a nice little piece of flash fiction. Crystallized to a page. I don't have a girlfriend so that should be interesting interview fodder.
I didn't apply to the screenwriting division...the only school I didn't do that for...because I am a glutton for punishment and even though I graduated with my AA last semester, I came back and took 15 more Honors credits..I am retarded. And a terrible time manager.
Can you say snowstorm? of writing...I just finished mids today. And I am still shoveling papers off of my desk.
Really stupid,
I like the creative challenge though. (A person returns home to find an uninvited guest)
I was thinking about a Buddhist monk returning home after completing the "aragoyo", the rigorous 90 day training done from Nov. to Feb in Japan, and finding a thief in his home But there aren't enough hours in the day.
Hope everyone gets in.
See ya in the fall.
Namaste,
Greg