<p>Hey! Who else here applied for the Writing for Film and TV program? They only accept 26 people so it could be one of us! What were some of your portfolio submissions about? Let's chat!</p>
<p>That’s me!! What’d you write about? I have awful stats but hopefully they’ll think I"m talented and let me in. We’ll find out soon enough!</p>
<p>I’m also an applicant. I had no idea so many of us were here…nobody came out of the woodwork when I posted about it 
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<p>I’m a transfer student btw. </p>
<p>I’d be more than happy to send some of my materials over or discuss what I wrote here.</p>
<p>@sydneyral… oh you’re a transfer? So are you going to need to go to USC for four years? Or are you going to have to just play “catch-up” because they said it was an intensive four year program</p>
<p>My scenes were very dramatic (I love drama haha) so I wrote about a married couple arguing back and forth about one of thing going out and possibly having an affair with his boss, but it turns out they both just fell out of love with eachother ever since the death of their son. And the elevator one was about a woman getting seduced by a man who was paid by her husband to see if she would “take the bait”. She does, btw. Haha What about you guys?</p>
<p>“forth about one of THEM”****</p>
<p>I will need to go to school for four years, but in my opinion its worth it and gives me four extra years to hone my skills, and above all NETWORK. I plan on spending most of my free time at USC not at sporting events or parties, but at SCA events meeting everyone I can possibly meet. What’s four more years of school?</p>
<p>My “two people stuck in an elevator on New Year’s Eve” involved a Las Vegas hotel, an elevator repairman and the foxy, dangerous woman. She barges into the caution-taped off elevator and points a gun at the repairman’s head, ordering him to get her down to the ground floor. He gets them heading down, but warns that the elevator is going through repairs. Sure enough, it sticks midway down. She is thrown off balance, spilling her purse full of casino chips. The repairman is stricken by her sudden vulnerability and foxyness and positions himself behind her to help her up. AS HE DOES THIS he blocks her stolen goods from the view of the surveillance camera in the elevator. The two begin talking about their differences, and start to fall in love…but we then realize that this was a fabrication of the Repairman’s imagination. He gets the woman to the bottom of the hotel, alerting her that he blocked her from the surveillance camera. She’s shocked at his decision to do this, despite her animosity towards him. They reach the bottom and she walks out just in time for the New Year’s countdown, flicking a casino chip over her shoulder to the repairman…</p>
<p>For my “two people living together, one wants to leave…etc” prompt, I wrote about the near future, in which nuclear winter has left two men stranded in a fallout shelter. We notice that the shelter had the capacity for many more people, but only two men remain. The younger of the two is planning to go out into the snowy beyond, so he packs everything up and alerts the other man. The other man orders him to stay, and we now see that he is an official of some kind with authority over the younger man. The younger man gives up and then begins unpacking. He has a flashback of the nuclear war. The younger man is seen fleeing from a lavish mansion to the shelter he is in today. End flashback. With new vigor, the younger man decides to leave. The older man is angered by the younger man’s sub-ordinance. They argue, the younger man blames the older man for the predicament. The younger man leaves the shelter, and climbs up, up, up into the shell of a ruined mansion…the same mansion he was in during the flashback. He climbs a ladder to the roof, and looks out into the abyss. In the distance is the half-buried obelisk of the Washington monument, revealing that this world is our own and the President of the United States is still in the shelter below in what we now know to be the White House.</p>
<p>:D…?</p>
<p>Do you any of you know when they send out the acceptances??! Can’t wait to hear :)</p>
<p>Tomorrow they are being mailed.</p>
<p>Good job Sydney! Just saw elsewhere that you were accepted! 
Those stories were pretty good so no wonder you got in! haha I live in WI so I won’t find out until Fri or Sat but I’m pretty sure I didn’t get in which is alright, rejection builds character 
haha</p>
<p>Hey guys, I got into to Writing too!
My first story was about a superhero and his nemesis meeting in an elevator on New Year’s, although both are disguised as their ‘alter-egos’. My other story was about a son and his father arguing about quitting the school track team. </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone, maybe see you next year!</p>
<p>Accepted as well!</p>
<p>My elevator scene involved a physicist working late on New Year’s Eve, giving up for the night and deciding to go home, only to have the elevator get stuck and a 18th century Prussian chancellor time-traveled inside. They converse on the nature of labor and leisure and both gain insight. Dialogue-driven. The assignment said “two very different types of people” so I figured what was more different than two time periods? :)</p>
<p>My scene for the two people living together and one wanting to leave was about two fetuses in a womb.</p>
<p>Hey guys! Got my acceptance letter on Friday to Writing for Film and TV! My stats suck but I guess my materials didn’t. 
My New Year’s Eve scene was about an elevator filled to capacity with people and unable to go anywhere in which a very drunk man and a young business woman meet. My other scene was about a high school aged brother and sister arguing about the sister going out when they are both kind of trying to hold their family together during their parent’s separation and basically arguing over whether or not they should have to do so.</p>
<p>I’m glad to see more people who have been accepted! Maybe we can start a facebook group or something, or at least add each other? Haha. I’m in FL so I won’t know anyone in California at all, really!</p>
<p>Let me know if anyone is interested.</p>
<p>WOW. There are so many writing acceptances this year! After spending the last six months combing through college confidential’s past years, this looks like the largest amount of writers on the boards! We might as well get to know each other before class though, we are all probably going to grow very close in the next few years…there’s only 20 something of us.</p>
<p>I’m tempted to make a facebook group should I?</p>
<p>I think the facebook group is a great idea-- It would be a good way to get to know each other before we actually get to know each other.</p>
<p>Haha, I didn’t see your mentioning of the facebook group when I made my post, profoundwhatever. You can start it if you want. :)</p>
<p>I’d love to hear what all of your admissions essays were about, by the way, as well as what you sent in for your 15 pages of creative writing, autobiographical character sketches, etc. Heehee, I am way too excited to have found some of the other accepted writers.</p>
<p>The group is made!</p>
<p>I made the settings “Closed”, so if you have difficulty joining, I guess just add me as a friend first, and we’ll figure it out! I’m the only member as of now, haha.</p>
<p><a href=“Facebook - log in or sign up”>Facebook - log in or sign up;
<p>I sent a request to join the group. It’s pretty obvious who I am :D</p>
<p>I’m so excited!</p>
<p>Okay, I’m sending a request to join, although my username doesn’t reflect much about me, haha.</p>