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From what I know about Stark, admission to that program is as competitive as it gets. The people who are admitted have usually tried multiple times to get in and failed repeatedly before getting accepted. If you aren’t sure you want to be a producer, you’re probably wasting your time applying to Stark.I am also considering Spring 2019, I guess there's still time to apply before 15th of August 2018. However I have one concern, as program that interests me the most is Peter Stark Producing - but I was unable to find it in the application list?..
Website says the application deadline for the program is 15th of Nov 2018 (for Fall 2019), but until today I have no idea how to apply and choose it. So in case Fall 2019 program will appear no longer available - I'll proceed with Film & TV Production (Spring 2019).
My aim is either Feature Film & TV Producer or Talent Agent, so I am not quite sure what program suits my goals best...
From what I know about Stark, admission to that program is as competitive as it gets. The people who are admitted have usually tried multiple times to get in and failed repeatedly before getting accepted. If you aren’t sure you want to be a producer, you’re probably wasting your time applying to Stark.
But if you do want to go forward with it, you have till November 15 to apply.
USC Cinematic Arts | Application Procedures
I’d suggest if you wanna go that route that you zero in on why producing is gonna be your real goal and then on your application really stress why you deserve to get in at Stark. Good luck!
I'm applying for the spring semester.
I have a question for the concept option for the supplemental part of the application - I'm wondering if this is meant to be descriptive, like a synopsis? I don't really understand the format.
Hi Esther, I have emailed them before to ask the same question, and they said there is no criteria for the concept option. You can choose the format you would like to write it in. I think a synopsis works.
I'd love to read it . I already submitted mine for the Spring so I'm a bit curious what everyone else's will look like.I'm applying this fall. I'm really at a lost with my Personal Statement. I was wondering if it's okay to post the draft here to get some critiques.
I'd love to read it . I already submitted mine for the Spring so I'm a bit curious what everyone else's will look like.
First let me just say that was a fantastic short film. It’s no surprise that got accepted. Thanks for sharing it.I would like to ask though. How did you guys make the audio for your video samples? It's been nagging me for months how to get quality audio because obviously the camera audio sucks I watched a ton of previously accepted samples (like this one) and I really don't know what equipment is required to get the sound of this quality. Thanks!
First let me just say that was a fantastic short film. It’s no surprise that got accepted. Thanks for sharing it.
So from what I heard, the secret to that film’s audio is that they didn’t have to do much dialogue. Dialogue is always the hardest thing for sound. They had some basic dialogue but they added audio filters to just about all of it, like phone sounds or muffled talking through the door. Even if the audio for the dialogue was terrible, we wouldn’t know because it was behind a filter.
Most of the audio was just sound effects layered in with the music. The underlying sound was the song playing throughout, and if you have a background song the song itself is usually already in high quality.
Then they had some ambient sounds like birds chirping outside. They probably downloaded those as sound effects online, or maybe they actually went out and recorded it. Freesfx.com has some great sound effects that are high quality if you’re looking for some.
If they recorded the sounds themselves, they probably had a boom and a zoom recorder, or maybe something more professional but I doubt it since this was an application film. But tbh, you could probably get almost as clean sound using an iPhone or something simple. Since almost all of the sounds come from objects filmed in a closeup, like the sound of the markers on the paper, they would have been able to get the boom or phone right up next to the sound and record it cleanly.
I submitted this video.We mostly did the same sort of thing as the video you linked, with music covering most of it and sound effects layered in around it with a little bit of dialogue behind a filter. And obviously I only submitted the 5 minutes without the credits.
A black magic pocket camera for most of it. I think we used a Canon t3i for the timelapses, but its been a couple years so I can’t remember for sure.Thank you so much for the reply! May I ask what you filmed this with?
Alright. Thanks!A black magic pocket camera for most of it. I think we used a Canon t3i for the timelapses, but its been a couple years so I can’t remember for sure.