Nicole Rogers
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I also got the call this morning! Yay!
Ben, I am not in the northeast... I am in SC but I will be driving down for the 13th.
Ben, I am not in the northeast... I am in SC but I will be driving down for the 13th.
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I went back and looked at some of the former FSU threads about the interview process to see if I could gleen anything about what to expect. I only found that the interview was intense and intimidating, but not anything on what sorts of questions to expect.
So I was hoping a fomer interviewee or current FSU grad student could shed some light on what sort of questions to expect. Thanks!
It's pretty nerve racking, yes.
There are three parts: the interview, the pitch, and then the group project.
It's basically you and 4-5 other candidates and they bring you into a room one by one. You sit in front of the department head and a couple of other faculty and they start asking questions like "tell us why you want to make movies" and "tell us about your favorite film and why it's your favorite."
My year, FSU required a few samples of your work and I sent in a couple of goofball student films that I shot. They were pretty much just comedy sketches and not films, so they asked me what I would have done differently to make the characters seem more real.
THEN they ask you to describe a movie you'd like to make. This is basically a pitch for a 5-minute short.
The final part is they bring in everyone else in your group and they give you some simple loglines and ask you (as a group) to choose one spend 20 minutes hashing out the basic story for the movie, which you then take turns pitching. The whole time you are doing this, the interview committee is just watching you and listening. When the time is up, you each take segments of the movie and take turns pitching the complete film to the committee.
It's pretty nerve racking, but when it's all over, you get to go on a tour of the facility and watch a couple of films that students have made in the past.
The final part is they bring in everyone else in your group and they give you some simple loglines and ask you (as a group) to choose one spend 20 minutes hashing out the basic story for the movie, which you then take turns pitching. The whole time you are doing this, the interview committee is just watching you and listening. When the time is up, you each take segments of the movie and take turns pitching the complete film to the committee.