<p>Hello,
I am planning on applying to the TV and Film Production major at USC's cinema school and wanted to know if the admissions committee prefer the video option over the photo option as a visual sample. I am already a student at the school so getting into the school is not a problem for me, just wanted to know if they would have a preference. Also, does anyone know if transferring internally is harder than externally? Are there more spots when transferring for either the Fall or Spring semester? I tried looking for visual photo samples online but didn't find too many.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>@beforemidnight</p>
<p>I am an internal transfer into SCA critical studies for fall 2013. From what I know for this year (there is a fb group for all SCA transfers 2013-14 which is why I have and idea), it’s competitive regardless whether internally or externally. Competition this year was extremely hard, had nearly 100 internally alone just TV production, including the people already in SCA trying to get into production. So it’s no different, you are competing against ALL transfers. For spring admission, it’s different because it will only be internal transfers tying to get it. They will have next to no spaces available since they just got through admitting a bunch of people for fall. </p>
<p>It doesn’t matter what you do for your visual sample. Do what you feel is your stronger point. Most people do the video sample because its more traditional. </p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>@shelbywhite</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply! When you say there is next to no space available, what ARE the spaces that will be available? Are they students who are graduating a semester early/late or those who decide to drop out of the program?</p>
<p>@beforemidnight</p>
<p>When I say there are next to no spaces left, it’s usually only enough spaces to fill the people who graduate in that fall, which isn’t that many. For USC in general, there are usually between 500-700 students that graduate in december, and that’s as an undergraduate class with all majors combined. So, film and TV production alone wouldn’t be too many. That major along with writing are the most selective and impacted in a sense, where hardly anyone drops out and most people accept their spot if accepted into the program.</p>
<p>As for how many they accept In the spring, I am not sure, since I was a internal fall admit into SCA What I will tell you is that there are external transfers that apply for fall that get accepted for the spring, and If those students accept, which they usually do, it most likely makes their space to let more students in even smaller in amount.</p>
<p>Am I making sense?</p>