<p>DS is submitting an arts supplement for his film work. The instructions on the arts supplement state to include all awards, showings, workshops, etc. DS has made a number of films and they each have been shown in a number of festivals. Additionally, he has attended 5.5 weeks of film festivals which were packed with workshops. We have prepared an arts supplement resume with all of the showings, awards, and workshops. I think it is too long-- 8 pages. </p>
<p>I am curious as to what have others done in this situation. How long are arts supplement resumes, generally? Instead of listing all of the festivals, would it be ok just to put something like "this film was a selection of 22 festivals, in 4 countries?" My only worry is that if we do this, we might leave out some festival that might be considered important by the application reviewer. However, we will list the festivals where he received awards, and maybe this will be enough. </p>
<p>Some of the workshops were taught by well-known people in this genre. Would it be ok to say something like "applicant attended a week long festival, during which time he attended numerous workshops, including, but not limited to, workshops on X subject, taught by well-known filmmaker Mr. X," instead of listing all of the workshops? </p>
<p>btw-- DS is homeschooled, so we don't have a college counselor or a film teacher to ask about this issue.
tia.</p>
<p>My homeschooled, filmmaker son just listed the most important festivals, awards, films and academies on his resume (we kept it to 2 pages for film plus everything else). There was <em>lots</em> of interest in his filmmaking in interviews even though he did not submit a film and he received many scholarship offers.</p>
<p>Also, from the perspective of a former scholarship committee member - I <em>hated</em> applications that were way too long. We felt we could only pass on so many pages to our scholarship committee so that everyone could get a fair read, so that put me in the position of having to decide what to keep and what to chuck. I would absolutely go with conciseness. Include enough to show how outstanding he is, but 8 pages is way, way too long.</p>
<p>I hope that helps some :-)</p>
<p>Huguenot,
Yes, it does, thank you.<br>
Did you son complete an arts supplement? If I'm understanding correctly, it contemplates a separate resume.
Do you mind saying if your son went to a film school, and if so, which one?</p>
<p>He did not go to a film school, though it was tempting. He also did not submit an arts supplement, though several schools encouraged him to. He wrote about his filmmaking in some of his essays, though. I'm not sure why he finally decided not to do arts supplements, probably because he was applying in a different field. His filmmaking is so important to him, he almost wanted to keep it separate I think.</p>
<p>If you do send in a separate resume for the filmmaking, I would keep it to 2 pages. For film experts, you don't have to explain everything, and for non-experts, they won't understand it if you do. Your son has an outstanding resume in film - I would make it as concise and readable as possible. Just the bare numbers are going to blow the readers away!</p>
<p>I don't think DS will do film as an undergrad student either, because he makes wildlife films and most undergrad film programs cover feature- type films. He would like to have the option to take some film courses, though. Film has been a big part of his hs career, so I think it would be a good idea for him to do the arts supplement, even if he's not applying to film school. He's working on a 10 minute DVD for the arts supplement and has two filmmakers willing to write LORs for the supplement, (even though they aren't technically his instructors, he has worked with them). So, if we can get the resume condensed into a manageable form, we'll be just about done with the arts supplement. Now, if I could just say the same for the school profile, transcript and counselor's letter : )</p>