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[deus_ex_machina85]

Tony,

I sent in my application on Feb. 1, the last day of the priority application period.

I'm about to be interviewed this week. I assume that the regular deadline applications are currently being reviewed.

 

[Tickpaintball]

Hey Everyone,

I'm a longtime lurker, figured it was past due I start actually getting involved on here.

I have a question for you Chapman folks, and I apologize if this is just retreading old ground. I recieved an email from Chapman requesting a DVD. They specifically mentioned three narrative shorts I've done so obviously those are going. I was also going to include my animation demo reel to show off some other skill sets I can bring to the table.

They also mentioned "creative work that best exemplify your creative and Directorial abilities". On the portfolio list I submitted with my application I included a great deal of other projects things like photography projects and a documentary I shot about a sculpture I helped build and design for Denver International Airport.

Should I include some of these other projects like the photography and the documentary? I know Chapman is huge on the narrative, but I'd like to think these other projects show some creative and technical talents. Do you think they should be included or should I just run with the narratives and the demo reel? Would they want to see a script for a directing applicant?

Thanks everyone for your time. This forum has been incredibly helpful, even for a lurker like me!

 

[mckinnod]

TPB,
How is it going? Are you in Denver, I'm outside of Boulder. What dept are you applying for?
As for the reel I do not have any suggestions other than to offer them what they requested. I do not know how they would perceive giving them anything else outside of their suggestions.
Is your artwork still at DIA, I am flying out on Monday to get married in the FLA and would like to keep eye open for it if passing by?
Donald Mckinnon

 

[Tickpaintball]

Hey McKinnod

Nice to hear from a fellow Coloradan!

I'm in Littleton, in the 'burbs southwest of Denver. I applied for film production with a directing emphasis. Did you apply to Chapman?

The sculpture was removed last year. It was a temporary piece. It was really a placeholder for that new giant horse sculpture DIA just put up.

Congrats on getting married! And thanks for your opinion on the reel!

 

[redpokiepenguin]

I don't know how useful my words will be considering I'm going into producing but...I put anything and everything into my reel. I did make sure though that it didn't look like I was throwing in the kitchen sink.

Personally I operate on the philosophy that showing extra diversity can never hurt. I wouldn't put in a script, since they have enough of your writing from the application and they are technically asking for a 'reel.'..mmm i hope that was helpful.

 

[mckinnod]

TPB,
I was accepted and I am in the cinematography dept. I'm incredibly excited; the dept fits my needs as a student very well. Let me know how things go with your application.
Donald Mckinnon
303-482-6121

 

[seventhshade]

If there are any producing applicants on the waitlist, a space is opening up this week as I have given up my spot. Hope is alive for one of you guys. Good luck.

 

[cabezon]

Hey seventhshade I'm a producing applicant and I'm on the waitlist. I hope to get your spot

Where have you decided to go instead of Chapman?

 

[Tickpaintball]

Hey McKinnod and Redpokiepenguin

Thanks for offering some opinions, I appreciate it! I have a better idea of what I want to put in now.

Congrats on your acceptence Don, thats fantastic! I'll keep in touch, let you know how things shake out for me.

 

[seventhshade]

Cabezon,

I am headed to AFI. Hopefully both of our groups of students will get to meet up.

 

[SeattleCinemaniac]

Sounds to me like they're still trying to iron out the kinks from the technical glitch. I called Eva yesterday and she said that a decision for my film studies application should be reached within the next two weeks. Before you call Eva again, check webadvisor just to be safe. The 'decision complete' status could be a goof.

I hope this helps,

J.G.

 

[Jables]

I got the waitlist producing letter in the mail today. I figured as much when they never called me back about an interview. At least I didn't fly out there.

I'm going to have to turn them down if I get in now though, I can't sit around waiting on them until the last minute unfortunately, as I need to respond to job offers now.

 

[Jables]

True True Fox.

Also for me I have a significant other who needed to be able to accept a job offer as well. It's been a fun ride, I got to go to LA for the first time for an interview at UCLA, but I ultimately came up short at all 3 schools. I still have a lot of freelance opportunities (I'm heading to Vegas in a few weeks for freelance videography), but will likely be taking a job outside of the production industry for now. I think the fact that I just graduated this May may have had a significant negative effect on me, more than anything else, everyone else who I've met for the most part has been out of school for a few years.

It's tough to tell when you get almost no feedback from anyone throughout this process, but that's the way the system works. Good luck to those of you who got into Chapman and elsewhere, and I'll be notifying them soon to remove me from the waitlist, so hopefully that'll allow someone from here to get in more quickly.

 

[Tickpaintball]

Hey Folks,

Has anyone going for the directing emphasis at Chapman gotten any word on acceptence?

I've seen producers, editors, and cinematographers in this thread, but haven't seen or heard anything from directors.

 

[SharonW]

I applied to Chapman (Directing) but I haven´t received any answer either! I hope they answer us soon! I´m intenational, so the mail takes few weeks to arrive to my country!

 

[SharonW]

good luck!!!

 

[WicketBF2]

I applied to Production - Directing. I pestered them repeatedly in early April and was told by several different people that I'd know within a few weeks - probably by April 15th. Well, it's June 2nd. WTF is wrong with all these schools? My app was done in December. There's absolutely no excuse for this taking over half a year. Their job is not that difficult. There are hoards of other schools - much bigger too - who had thousands more applications to sift through, who managed to finish by April.

 

[MovieTeller]

I was accepted for the directing emphasis a few weeks ago. Best of luck.

 

[WicketBF2]

Yeah me too, and it's not just a matter of me being anxious - I left anxious behind two months ago. It sucks because Orange County is where I'm most comfortable. I went to OCC, CSUF and it's where I played Hockey for years growing up. Chapman is probably one of the few schools I'd fit in with, but damn are they slow and/or incompetent. They've been about as bad as our riff-raff government workers.

 

[glendaleguy]

i got accepted for MFA directing at chapman, and am trying to decide between starting there in the fall, or staying at the Art Center College of Design in pasadnea, where i'm currently attending. any chapman students able to fill me in on:
what life is actually like living in orange county?
If you feel like chapman suffers at all because its not in LA?
Do you feel like Chapman is helping you set yourself up for success after graduation? have any recent graduates found the transition to be difficult? and by success i don't mean "yay i went to school for 3 years, got an MFA, and now im hte best grip hollywood has ever seen."

any help woudl be appreciated.
thanks
k