NFTS Applications 2021 - The one where the world seems to be on fire.... (1 Viewer)

Thank you! One man busting ass, and two actors helping every way they could hahaha.

The hardest part was putting the contact lenses on the Demon, he had never worn any and asked me to put them in myself. Longest hour of my life and of his, I'm sure.
Haha, that sounds interesting. How much time did you guys spend on shooting?

And btw, good luck with your application!
 
Haha, that sounds interesting. How much time did you guys spend on shooting?

And btw, good luck with your application!

Thanks! Same to you.

We shot it in one day. A very intense day mind you, about 14 hours on set, of which about 10 were actual shooting. As you can imagine, my budget was essentially zero so I had to be as frugal as possible, and that was reflected in how we went about the day: No coverage, no deviations from the shot list, no re-dos on some of the shots (I broke a couple glasses) I was pretty much editing on camera.

...I still ended up cutting a lot in the editing process though, shows what I knew hahaha
 
Thanks! Same to you.

We shot it in one day. A very intense day mind you, about 14 hours on set, of which about 10 were actual shooting. As you can imagine, my budget was essentially zero so I had to be as frugal as possible, and that was reflected in how we went about the day: No coverage, no deviations from the shot list, no re-dos on some of the shots (I broke a couple glasses) I was pretty much editing on camera.

...I still ended up cutting a lot in the editing process though, shows what I knew hahaha
That's truly amazing and inspiring. I also made a no-budget film but it's a cheap-feeling documentary so nothing hard about that. Your work otherwise is really well-done as a low-budget film. And I also love the editing particularly, the rhythm is spot on. Good work!
 
Hi everyone

Any other applicants to the MA Screenwriting course waiting to hear back? I've already got a place for screenwriting at the MetFilm School and I've got my LFS interview tomorrow. I'm in a bit of a dilemma as to whether or not to accept the place at MetFilm (since they don't hold the place for you at all, bit sketchy) or try and wait to hear back from the NFTS.
I’ve just received an email about the composing workshop/interview next week! So excited for it :)
 
Any Composing applicants here? Had an email on Monday saying we should get news sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Good luck to everyone and congrats to those who have received an interview!

Oops.. meant to reply to you haha, from what I understood the composing course seems to be one of the last to hear back!
I have just got an email back about the interview/workshop on Monday, so definitely the time to refresh your email every few seconds if you haven't been doing that already 😁.

Best of luck to everyone!!
 
I got an email on Friday afternoon saying I've made it to the interview stage for the producing course, but nothing since as to when/what it will be...anyone heard anything?
 
I do wonder how the coronavirus will effect the volume of applications this year - if it will at all. They normally get 300-400 applications

I imagine it'll balance out about the same. Fewer international students will apply for obvious reasons (I assume), but perhaps more UK students will apply because it's so much harder to get work, and it makes sense to up-skill rather than sit around waiting for the industry to stabilise.
 
I know they haven’t looked at my video for DF yet as I uploaded one just for the course and it’s only had he administration team check it a few days ago. No more views so DF might be another while.
 
I got a date today! The 24th of June.
They say it will be approx. 50 minutes long.. wish more people would share their interview experiences😅 anyways, good luck to everyone!
Have you looked at previous threads? though this will be different as its the first year of all Zoom interviews. I think 50 minutes is ok. I heard it used to be very intense
 
Hi everyone. I just got offered an interview for MA Editing as well. Does anyone have any idea about what kind of questions should we expect at the interview? I believe that because DF receives so many more applications, it takes so much longer to process them all. Good luck to you all.
 
Have you looked at previous threads? though this will be different as its the first year of all Zoom interviews. I think 50 minutes is ok. I heard it used to be very intense
Oh and I found the length surprising because my interview with MetFilm lasted 25 minutes and with Central Film School 30, so it's interesting to see the time jump!
 
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