UCLA 2010

[vivaitalia]

Originally posted by nyuuclausc:
sorry to keep bugging you vivaitalia.. i forgot to also ask you to share your vital stats, what school, letters of rec, creative writing samples. We're all panting at your feet, hungry for any tidbit of info to help us size up what TFT is looking for.

Dude...just hold out another week. your eagerness to find out so much information about me makes me feel like you work for the school and are trying to figure out who posts here.

i wish you the best of luck...just chill a bit.

 

[Cptn. Amurikuh]

"your eagerness to find out so much information about me makes me feel like you work for the school and are trying to figure out who posts here."

Lol, so we got snitches on the block ehh?! The idea of these schools throwing out narcs on the web is a little too much, ahaha.

Oquendo, I checked out sb the last week and liked what i saw with the facilities. I definately agree with you on the fact it seems odd they get such a fine film center and aren't more full blown production??? Maybe the place will come with a new curriculum

My watch is still ticking for the thirtieth for berk so we'll see and deciding between those two would be way hard, maybe just getting canned would make things easier, yes i am a negative nancy. God if only sd's major was at sb or berk, we shall see my friend.

any transfers out there here anything from usc? I applied for crit studies and still no word accept the note saying we'd be notified by june 1st. Just to make things more interesting i saw on a post last year a transfer was admitted to production on may 28th, two days before the uc intent to register form is due, lots of lead time to ponder that one over eh.

 

[Oquendo]

Originally posted by nyuuclausc:
sorry to keep bugging you vivaitalia.. i forgot to also ask you to share your vital stats, what school, letters of rec, creative writing samples. We're all panting at your feet, hungry for any tidbit of info to help us size up what TFT is looking for.

lol, calm down, man...which school and kinds of letters of rec's aren't really going to add on as "vital information" for us, neither will GPA and personal statement(for obvious reasons). as for creative writing, we all have different writing styles; furthermore, asking for someone else's work is a little too personal and private!

btw, my last name isn't really "oquendo" in case they really are on here... *shifty-eyes*

anyways, i, too, am getting really anxious now. i want to know already. out of the big three schools, UCLA is the only one I ended up applying too(as well as the one i had been planning/scheming/pontificating for several years) plus i am editing a film-related project now and every minute of it reminds me of the production aspects of film school, which kills me!!!

i know its nervewracking, but where the hell is everybody? this place used to be so "talky"!

p.s: correct me if i am wrong, but i am starting to think the "FILM STUDIES" is to "FILM PRODUCTION," as "ENGLISH LITERATURE" is to "CREATIVE WRITING" - correct?

 

[Oquendo]

Oquendo, I checked out sb the last week and liked what i saw with the facilities. I definately agree with you on the fact it seems odd they get such a fine film center and aren't more full blown production??? Maybe the place will come with a new curriculum

dude, I am supposed to go the friday after next, but if i get a call from UCLA, then i'll probably my lose my 40 bucks from my school since i assume LA will do their interviews that very same week. but if i do go visit SB, you can assume that i am gonna be one sad man...

anyways, can you elaborate more on the sb film center? i know they have a:

production stage
editing lab
35mm prints
300 seat movie theater

do they have 16mm cameras? 24HD cams? boom mics? foley room? soundstage?

also, is this center open to all film students or do you have to be in a production-type class to check out equipment?

i know they are heavy analytically and theoretically, but apparently, i heard budget cuts are affecting the un-tenured teachers who unfortunately just happening to be teaching production courses!

and to be honest, IF i do transfer to a "film studies" program, i really won't emphasize brilliant grades(i just took a film studies class last semester and it was quite easy since i practice a lot of argumentation/FLAMING on IMDB), just as long as i get to work on creative writing and more importantly, the production equipment. therefore i dont mind writing essays, as long as i get to be working on SOMETHING.

My watch is still ticking for the thirtieth for berk so we'll see and deciding between those two would be way hard, maybe just getting canned would make things easier, yes i am a negative nancy. God if only sd's major was at sb or berk, we shall see my friend.

me, too. berk would be a nice alternative, not to mention it allows you to put on that "EGO" HAT when the words, "I go to CAL", come out of your mouth...(god, i'm pathetic, lol)

but that is so true: if SD's visual arts curriculum could be applied to Santa Barbara's NEW film center, and then relocate itself to Berkeley, that would be quite a program!

apparently, berkeley doesn't have much facilities to work in, but i know they do at least make films:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLQniR3mR7U

 

[vivaitalia]

Originally posted by Oquendo:

lol, calm down, man...which school and kinds of letters of rec's aren't really going to add on as "vital information" for us, neither will GPA and personal statement(for obvious reasons). as for creative writing, we all have different writing styles; furthermore, asking for someone else's work is a little too personal and private!

btw, my last name isn't really "oquendo" in case they really are on here... *shifty-eyes*

hah...thanks for backing me up. I didn't want to feel like I was over-paranoid. but my dad keeps telling me stories about how college counselors are hacking in Facebook, etc.


O dude! I forgot to mention in my post on UCSD that I've heard that the program is mainly editing on PC's. I haven't verified this myself, but I remember hearing somewhere that the majority of the work is done on Adobe Premiere and Avid. I know everyone has their preferences, but I'm a big mac fan and have an affinity for Final Cut.

But...like I said, I really never verified this. Just something I've heard.

 

[nyuuclausc]

Viva y oquendo..
trust me, no narc here. i'm just figuring tft already notified all who are to be interviewed..V-Italia says he interviewed before katy so that means she musta been part of a second interview round. I don't want to be more pathetic than I already appear to be, holding out hope when clearly, we're thru. Good try guys.. time to move on to our Plan Bs...Vaya con Dios. Good luck Viva, in case you still haven't heard.

 

[vivaitalia]

Originally posted by nyuuclausc:
Viva y oquendo..
trust me, no narc here. i'm just figuring tft already notified all who are to be interviewed..V-Italia says he interviewed before katy so that means she musta been part of a second interview round. I don't want to be more pathetic than I already appear to be, holding out hope when clearly, we're thru. Good try guys.. time to move on to our Plan Bs...Vaya con Dios. Good luck Viva, in case you still haven't heard.

good to know you are not a narc. lol

i wouldn't give up hope yet. Maaybe in a week or so I would, b/c they said we won't hear decisions until May 1st so that leaves room for them to invite others.

 

[EricaLauren]

welp...it was nice knowing you all. congrats to those who got an interview. looks like i'll either be in SF or Vancouver in the fall.

 

[fakeplastic]

yup same.
i guess it was really as hard as they say it is.
there was a small part of me that really thought i would get in.
thanks for making this wait worthwhile guys.
bye.

 

[bornfromcelluloid]

Aw, you guys :-( good luck with everything, I hope to see you all on here in two years applying for Grad school!

 

[Oquendo]

Originally posted by fakeplastic:
yup same.
i guess it was really as hard as they say it is.

Seriously. I remember hearing from one of the MFA people there that UCLA reserves around 4-5 spots for out-of-state and international students; therefore, if you live in CA, then we are really competing for around 10 spots.

I also have to admit I thought I was at least going to get a call...It's really awkward now since everyone I know keeps asking me, "So when do you start UCLA, Matt?"

Anyways, 330+ posts later and it's finally over. Ironically, I got into every school besides ^, and now I'm just waiting for Berkeley.

If anyone still wants to talk, I'll be in the GENERAL undergrad forum. I just got my letter of acceptance to Long Beach yesterday(such timing), and so far it's narrowed down to:

UCSD, possibly UCB, UCSB, possibly Northwestern, and CSULB

Good luck guys, and maybe we'll work together in the future someday!

 

[ok2play]

didn't get in to UCLA for film but I got in for Anthropology. I'm not sure if Anthro is the way to go so i'm pretty much in limbo right now. Should i stay at community college and try again for film next year? OR... Go to UCLA, find out if Anthro is right or not, then try and petition to change majors? But if i can't change majors and I don't want to do Anthro...then what?
Can life get anymore difficult? Wait, yes it can. I hope it doesn't though.

 

[fakeplastic]

wait you can apply for more then one major?
i thought for ucla they said you can only apply as a film major if our doing film?
anyways, i'd say go to ucla, its a good school.
And its not like learning anthropology is going to hurt you. you should learn everything you can now and then use that knowledge in your film career.
For me I think I'm going to probably end up at UCSB or UCSD...ehhh. it sucks not getting into ucla.

 

[Oquendo]

For me I think I'm going to probably end up at UCSB or UCSD...ehhh. it sucks not getting into ucla.

you can get into an alternate major if you did the pre-reqs and are in the honor's program as far as i am concerned. i am thinking of appealing for comparative lit, but i just found out i am one pre-req short so i am not sure if should appeal at all.

i'm thinking of UCSB or UCSD, but i am stilling waiting on berkeley. i think film studies would be interesting because it would really strengthen our writing skills. technical stuff is easy(at least according to a CSULB film professor), but good stories and scripts are hard to manufacture.

 

[fakeplastic]

oquendo, i know the ucsb is film&media studies but what about ucsd, is there any production?
also is there any production at ucsb?
thanks

 

[Oquendo]

Originally posted by fakeplastic:
oquendo, i know the ucsb is film&media studies but what about ucsd, is there any production?
also is there any production at ucsb?
thanks

I posted in the UCSD forum because I'm tired of this thread, lol:

http://www.studentfilms.com/ev...ms/a/frm/f/488106085

 

[vivaitalia]

So I saw the UCLA Graduate Student Films yesterday at the Newport Beach Film Festival. They were really surprisingly good. I was amazed at the level of quality, though that comes along with major $$$$ as they learn how to raise money to produce their films. Good narratives though, and the graduate students said that UCLA is the place to go for more of an education on indie-based films and story-based films as opposed to special effects and fancy camera-work. They said that USC is better for that.