<p>My son who is in Film production wrote about an experience he had working on the set of a film for the common app, then used other film related experiences for his other essays. It’s these experiences that convinced him to go into film- and were some of the most memorable to him- so they were the natural things to write about for him. I think the best essays come from writing about your most memorable and personally meaningful experiences. If yours are in film write about those. If yours are in other areas, write about that. Just make the essays powerful, leave your readers with a strong impression of who you are and what has shaped you into the person you are now. Tell a story. Don’t just answer a question. They are looking for good story tellers. So whatever you write about make it something that would make the reader sit back at the end and say “wow”. The thing you write about doesn’t need to be epic- just something that changed you or how you looked at the world. Tell the story of that change- and you’ll have a great essay.- whatever the subject.</p>