<p>well, good luck!</p>
<p>As a footnote to nothing, my son in Critical Studies just got an internship for next semester at: <a href="http://www.participantproductions.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.participantproductions.com/</a></p>
<p>Wow! Congraduations! Do tell us how he landed this. I remember that you said this summer, your son worked on a film in Malibu. I hope my freshman someday does as well as your son is doing - you must be very proud of him.</p>
<p>The girl next door to me in our dorm is in Production and she is a tour guide etc. for the school in general. I'll tell her to come over here and she can give you guys some answers to your questions.</p>
<p>Thank you ebay. Indeed we are proud.</p>
<p>Contacts, that's how he landed it. He knew someone from USC who was an intern there and that led him to get an interview. He's working on something for this summer through one of his teachers.</p>
<p>These kinds of opportunities are the reason why it's worth paying the extra money to go to USC for film. </p>
<p>As an aside: if all those people who have spent years writing their precious script with the hopes that it will catch someone's attention only knew that it is being read by a bunch of 21 year olds who will more than likely shoot it down.</p>
<p>This is the IMDB URL for the film he worked on this summer <a href="http://imdb.com/title/tt0463934/fullcredits%5B/url%5D">http://imdb.com/title/tt0463934/fullcredits</a>. He's down there under "Other Crew."</p>
<p>Oh, that is so cool, he got a credit and still at school! Both my kids are constantly studying the imdb database - the day my freshman gets a credit on it he will be elated indeed!</p>
<p>Ebay:</p>
<p>My son came home after his first year and interned for these people: <a href="http://www.storyhousepro.com/%5B/url%5D">http://www.storyhousepro.com/</a>. They have a DC office in Georgetown. He wasn't thrilled with it. Last summer we committed to having him stay in LA for the summer provided he could find something to do. He got an internship. Worked one day and the person who hired him quit and asked if he wanted to work on the movie with her, which of course he did. </p>
<p>Downside of this is that I didn't see him for six months. </p>
<p>He and my wife are going to Chicago next week. He'll be meeting up with some classmates. I'm coming in at the end of the week.</p>
<p>For those who are reading this I have included the stuff on my son not because I want to brag, well just a little, but for you to see that your opportunities are what you make of them. They are not dependent on whether you are in production, cs, or writing. Success in film is about selling yourself, being good, making contacts, and perhaps the most important: SHOWING UP ON TIME. Time is money in the film industry. If you want to get ahead you must be seen as reliable as well as talented.</p>
<p>FYI, just a note...our S was accepted to the School of Film and TV but NOT accepted to USC. He was an above average student with STRONG creative ECs, but nothing exceptional academically. The point is that our experience was that you still need to have the GPA / Scores to get into the school as a whole.</p>
<p>Anyone for Interactive Media?! This is my first choice school because of its interactive media program... seems no one else is interested. It has to be some tough competition, because I think they only had 6 undergrads in it last year.</p>
<p>White Male
Eastern Washington
3 yrs. Private HS, Senior year Public HS</p>
<p>SATI:
Math: 730
Reading: 760
Writing: 730</p>
<p>SATII:
Math Level 2: 770
Literature: 800
Chemistry: 680</p>
<p>GPA:
Unweighted: 3.945</p>
<p>AP:
World History: 5
Calculus AB: Planned
European History: Planned
English (both): Planned
Calculus BC: Maybe</p>
<p>ECs/Related things:
Policy Debate 4 years, 3 letters, National Qualifier, plan to debate intercollegiate, state qualifier twice
Student Congress 4 years, state qualifier twice
National Merit Semifinalist / Finalist
Math Team two years, one letter
Literary Magazine 3 years</p>
<p>Also Applying to:
MIT (deferred)
Barrett Honors College (Arizona State) (accepted)
U of Washington Honors (accepted to main, dunno about video game major or honors)
UC Berkeley
Dartmouth
Harvard
Northwestern</p>
<p>SnowflakePillow, out of curiousity where else are you applying? My S is interested in interactive media as well, but we've mainly stuck with good CompSci programs because we're unsure of many of the new programs. I would really like to hear what you've found.</p>
<p>I have a friend at USF, University of San Francisco, and I am pretty sure her major is interactive media. That is the reason why she chose it, because it supports that major. Perhaps try that?</p>
<p>Well I listed where else I was applying, lol. If you mean majors, then:</p>
<p>MIT: Philosophy/Linguistics
ASU: Software Engineering
UW: Their video game major Digital Arts & something or other
Cal: Humanities Undeclared
Dartmouth: I forgot. Engineering und. maybe.
Harvard: Engineering I think.
Northwestern: Engineering I think.</p>
<p>I'm really unsure on a major, I really like computer stuff, but I really like art too. That's why I want interactive media.</p>
<p>my school is so small (i'm rank 1 out of 128!). they've never had somebody try to get into a competitive film school before. (production, crit. studies 2nd)they're all so confident i'll get in just because i'm their star student and i've taken a summer high school class in film at Berkeley ATDP. i'm so worried though. nobody has any criticisms on my essays. i don't have time, so my crit. studies analysis is 1 page single-spaced. but it's packed with terminology and stuff. my ATDP teacher loved it, she said she didn't even understand that film until she read it (A Scanner Darkly). but my emotional moment is giving me grief. my english teacher thinks i should focus on the follow-up of my event, i thought i should focus on the build-up. soo confused!</p>
<p>i've got my stats profile up on this site, so it's accessible without me typing a whole bunch extra here</p>
<p>Go with your feelings, sometimes students know better than the teachers. My son focused on the events leading up to his most emotional moment and submitted in my opinion, a brilliant essay. Definately take the route less traveled.</p>
<p>You say you don't have time to work on your portfolio? So where's your heart in Crit Studies?</p>
<p>If you really wanted this, I'm sure you could manage some time working into the wee hours of the morning on the analysis. I spent many a sleepless night amidst AP classes and essays working on my screenwriting portfolio, and it paid off.</p>
<p>From my friends in crit studies, some of these papers were long-winded pieces, so I don't see how a page would suffice, no matter how "packed" it may be. (Ever heard of "name dropping"? That's what this sounds like, and it ****es the film professors off. A lot. They don't care you know the words and terms, they want to see APPLICATION.)</p>
<p>A page would force you to come off as pretentious, and while the crit studied kids are the most pompous of the bunch, you don't want to come off as a jerk to the adcom.</p>
<p>As far as the emotional moment goes, the aftermath would be nice. I did a weird thing where I started from the middle of the story, but i did touch upon beginning, middle, and end. Mine was a comedic piece though...</p>
<p>my true heart is in production, and i've been staying up late into the night for it. critical studies is great, too, but i'm trying to focus on production. 2 so-so applications aren't as great as one good application right? i didn't know how long the analysis was supposed to be - the application didn't say anything about that! i had no idea that most people were writing such long pieces. it says "analysis of a film or aspect of television... or a published article" and i guess i just assumed published articles weren't generally 8 pages long.</p>
<p>definitely not "name-dropping"! i knew what i was talking about, since this was an essay i wrote for a summer class. i didn't define my terminology at all, it was all application. i don't want to be a jerk! oh no... i guess i'll see what i remember of the film and try to expand it a few pages.</p>
<p>i wish they would have put a general page count for that essay. i have all my recs in and stuff. I want to send it in soon.</p>
<p>sigh
i hope the cntv personal statement is a heavy factor, i think those were great</p>
<p>then why aren't you applying to production? you don't send samples of your films, and its not all too different than the crit studies app...</p>
<p>not to sound harsh, but why didn't you start earlier and do two apps? i know a lot of people who did, and it worked to their advantage.</p>
<p>the published article thing...it means writing about an article, i believe. i don't know...the screenwriting portfolio was so different.</p>
<p>good luck. you'll end up sending it on december 9th as an overnight fed ex package like the rest of them :)</p>
<p>What/How did you write your personal statement?</p>
<p>What was your focus, and how did you write it?</p>
<p>haha okay NOW i see, major confusion over there
i AM applying to production, and I AM doing two apps (well did, i mailed them, just crossing my fingers now...)
i had actually been thinking about my production application since summer, it was the extra 2nd choice app that got rushed, because of the apps i had to do for Chapman film production</p>
<p>for the personal statement (i wrote 2, one tailored to each major):
production - focused on creativity, what film means to me, morality in films, my childhood of dreaming to be a filmmaker
crit. studies - focused more on my experiences with film analysis and how i will tie the major with film production both in school and later in life</p>