The portfolio requirement for the Film & Video program is a two-part film essay or a film reel.
Film Reel
Film and video production work should be submitted on a DVD or online at SlideRoom. No more than three minutes of film and video will be viewed, thus it may be appropriate to submit excerpts of longer work. If you choose to send a DVD, please format the video as a .mov file. A written description of the applicant's role in the work should be included.
Two-Part Essay
Part One
In the first part, applicants must describe an imaginative story or significant real-life event in 500 words or less. This essay should be told as a short story with a plot, including a clear beginning, middle and end.
Part Two
In the second part, applicants must adapt the story from part one into cinematic terms using 1,000 words or less. By retelling the same story in these terms, the applicant is encouraged to be very visually descriptive, using camera cues/angles and dialogue. By controlling these elements, the applicant as filmmaker must engage the reader, communicate the significance behind the event or story, and take the reader someplace the filmmaker feels is worth the ride.
The essays are not meant to be scripts or screenplays. The admissions review will focus on an applicant's storytelling ability and how successfully images, ideas and plot are communicated.
The essays should be double-spaced and neatly printed or typed and each page numbered and labeled with the applicants name.
Film Reel
Film and video production work should be submitted on a DVD or online at SlideRoom. No more than three minutes of film and video will be viewed, thus it may be appropriate to submit excerpts of longer work. If you choose to send a DVD, please format the video as a .mov file. A written description of the applicant's role in the work should be included.
Two-Part Essay
Part One
In the first part, applicants must describe an imaginative story or significant real-life event in 500 words or less. This essay should be told as a short story with a plot, including a clear beginning, middle and end.
Part Two
In the second part, applicants must adapt the story from part one into cinematic terms using 1,000 words or less. By retelling the same story in these terms, the applicant is encouraged to be very visually descriptive, using camera cues/angles and dialogue. By controlling these elements, the applicant as filmmaker must engage the reader, communicate the significance behind the event or story, and take the reader someplace the filmmaker feels is worth the ride.
The essays are not meant to be scripts or screenplays. The admissions review will focus on an applicant's storytelling ability and how successfully images, ideas and plot are communicated.
The essays should be double-spaced and neatly printed or typed and each page numbered and labeled with the applicants name.