我的留美之路——转专业申请影视制作艺术硕士

motoweihuUID: 2401933

楼主原来是啥专业？  接了哪家的offer？

telphyUID: 2522450

强帖留名！

frankzxbUID: 2269720

我今年就在申请 哈哈 谢谢楼主提供的资料

HK在微笑UID: 2654973

相当有收获，谢谢LL的分享，我的论坛第一文就华丽丽得回在LL的页面上鸟！！

TransfarmerUID: 2623646

30# lanxinwu

我对美国的本科教育不了解，但我觉得转专业申请也是一种优势。多元化的student pool也许能够碰撞出更多的火花吧。我个人觉得，学习电影专业，艺术和技术会得到提高，但如果有一个不同的本科背景，那么你的艺术创作可能就会更有内容。比如，法律转电影，可以拍《律政俏佳人》，CSI；医学转电影，可以拍《实习医生格雷》《双面法医》等等；学物理的可以拍的就更多了，《星际迷航》，《天才理论传》……而我本科学的专业，全世界也就中国和朝鲜开设吧，呵呵。关于学校，如果你喜欢编剧的话，很多学校都单独开设编剧专业的，比如西北大学，波士顿大学，德州奥斯汀，四大应该也有吧。你也可以顺着上面那百所电影学院的列表一个个查查看啊。另外很多creative writing的项目也会有很多剧本创作的东西。

好久没上网了，不好意思没发现这里有人提问，谢谢大家支持，最近忙着毕业各种事，就暂不连载了，有什么问题可以给我发邮件（请先自我介绍）。

石榴放蕊UID: 2656129

学习一下，本人正在最起始的阶段，不知该上哪儿去找学校

石榴放蕊UID: 2656129

楼主的经历本身就像拍电影一样充满传奇色彩啊！从理工科转到影视制作，跨度很大啊。本人也是理工类的，也想转专业。但是很担心米国的高校不会接受这么大跨度的转专业，请问楼主，当时你申请的学校都要求你提供了哪些材料？你是否也要考一个GRE SUBJECT？对于没有专业背景的人来说，这种考试会不会很难啊？这几个疑问最近一直困扰着我，如果楼主能给指点迷津的话，将非常感谢！

TransfarmerUID: 2623646

分享一些美国学生的背景和申请结果，发现一个普遍规律，美国人的GRE都不高，呵呵。

同学1：
Applied to: USC Screenwriting, UCLA Screenwriting, Columbia, NYU Dramatic Writing
Accepted by: Columbia, NYU DW
Rejected by: UCLA (probably USC)
GPA: 3.0 from a top-tier school, not a consistent student with a few Ds and Cs as well as the occasional A. Majored in history, graduated in 2005.
GRE: 1250 (only took it for USC)
Recommendations: One from my current employer, one from a college professor (arts related), one from a theater colleague
Background: Since college, been working at a non-profit (in a really boring job). Took an into to film-making class and a tv writing class. Spending almost all free time doing theater related stuff.

同学2：
Columbia -- interview, accepted
NYU -- no interview, rejected
UTexas-Austin -- no interview, accepted
AFI -- interview, rejected
UCLA -- no interview, rejected
USC -- no interview, waitlist
Chapman -- interview, accepted
LMU -- no interview, accepted
GPA: 3.38 (3.67 in junior/senior yrs) double-major Journalism/History from University of Missouri-Columbia; also did a 1-year-long screenwriting certificate course @ the College of Santa Fe
GRE: 1140 (took it for a bunch of places, UT, USC, LMU, NYU)
References: Two former college profs (one journalism, one playwrighting) and a prof from the certificate program
Background: Since graduating 2005, i've been working as a copy editor @ two tiny newspapers, writing headlines, photo captions, basically 1/2 remedial english, 1/2 mediocre graphic design. glad to be moving on, let's put it that way.

同学3：
Columbia - interview, accepted, MFA Film
NYU - interview, accepted, MFA Film
GPA: 3.5 from Queens University in Charlotte, NC. Major in Communications (Journalism). That was in 1999, so I took a 10-year hiatus (which I think helped me).
Did not take GRE.
References: A writer, an editor, an old friend who is now an NYU professor for theater.
Background: Hmmmm. Lots of odd jobs. Also wrote and directed for theater, worked in casting for film, wrote and directed my own short films, involved with women in the arts organizations. Did some freelance writing along the way.

同学4：
Applied to: NYU Dramatic Writing
Accepted by: NYU
GPA: 3.0 from Loyola Chicago, horribly inconsistent in core classes, but majored in Theatre with a 4.0 average in my major
GRE: Didn't take it.
Recommendations: One from a friend/colleague who teaches Theatre at a middle school and went to undergrad with me, two recommendations from part-time NYU dramatic writing professors who I met taking summer classes in 2007
Background: In college, studied playwrighting though we didn't have a formal program. Had two shows produced in our studio. Since college, I've joined a writers' group and have been working on television specs while working in theatre. Placed as a finalist in the Top 20 of the 2009 ABC/Disney Television Writing Fellowship.

同学5：
Columbia — no interview, rejected (pending)
Northwestern — no interview, rejected (pending)
UCLA — no interview, rejected
USC — no interview, accepted
I applied for screenwriting.
Graduated: May 2008
GPA: 3.7 (3.8 major) from Macalester College (US News ranked #25 for private liberal arts colleges)
Degree: BA in English (creative writing focus), minors in media studies & psychology
Took a screenwriting & production course at Goldsmiths College in London
GRE: 1250. I don't remember my writing score. I was in the 93rd percentile for verbal and the 48th for math. Took it for USC.
Recommendations: Former creative writing professors, my boss/creative director at the web design studio where I've worked since graduation (~10 months)
Background: Almost no film experience. In college, I took a couple of film analysis classes, poetry & fiction classes, won a couple of college-wide contests, helped with the student literary magazine, and interned at a small literary journal.
I want to mention (again) that none of the writing samples I sent to USC were screenplay/stage play excerpts. Except for the two scenes they assigned, my stuff was poetry & fiction.

同学6：
I only applied to AFI, only school that interested me, got an interview and got accepted.
I applied for Producing.
Graduated in 2004, Bachelor in Mass Communications, specialized in Audiovisual Arts from one of the top tier universities in Venezuela (UCAB, Caracas)
GPA: 3.8 but 4.0 in all of my specialization classes.
Recommendations: 1 from a film and commercial director, 1 from an executive producer, 1 from an editor and 1 from a screenwriter and producer. The last 2 are AFI alumni.
Background: Worked as a TA for television and videography classes, 2 years at an Independant TV Production company renowned in my country, then as a post production coordinator in a feature film, then in an International Cable TV Network escalating to various positions. Currently Editor-In-Chief of an online news site, and freelance producer.
Most of my recommendation letters came from former employers.
Didn't take the GRE, my TOEFL score is of 650 out of 700.
Producers only get to submit letters of recommendation and resumes at AFI.

同学7：
Columbia Film - interview, accepted
NYU Dramatic Writing - casual phone interview, accepted, but didn't hear until April 18th
UTexas-Austin screenwriting - no interview, waitlisted, then accepted
AFI screenwriting - interview, accepted
UCLA screenwriting - interview, accepted
USC screenwriting - no interview, accepted
GPA: 3.67 double major Plan II Liberal Arts Honors and Radio-TV-Film from University of Texas at Austin, did a UT Summer in LA program (internship + classes) during which I interned at Battlestar Galactica Post for a few months.
GRE: 1440 (I think I might have put the wrong score on a previous thread, but I can't seem to find it.) Took it for a some but not all of the schools.
References: A former college professor/director in Radio-TV-Film, a former supervisor at Battlestar Galactica Post, and a former supervisor from this other receptionist/production assistant job I had briefly in NY (at an editorial boutique for TV commercials)
Background: Graduated in 2007, worked very briefly in NY but came back because the job was heading towards producing and I wanted to stay in the creative side of the industry. Came back to Austin to explore the field and really pin down what I wanted to do. Tried acting, helped out with student projects at the UT campus, and joined a screenwriting group. Attended Austin Film Festival and a screenwriting workshop held by Dave Trottier (author of the Screenwriter's Bible). I am mostly unemployed, but I do freelance graphic and web design. I also do portraits from time to time.
Honestly I think being unemployed was an asset during the application process because I put all my time and energy into writing and working on my application. Submitted a short film and a feature length film (or a snippet of it depending on page limits). Have written a few features that all suck either during school or while being unemployed.
To consolidate this thread and Sonia's thread about conveying who you are in your application, I think Columbia and USC probably got the best picture of me because they had additional scenes you were required to write. USC had the most writing requirements, so I got to really give them all I got. I liked my Columbia scene, so I tried to maneuver most of the dialogue into one of my USC scenes. hehe.

xiaon_anUID: 2387613

强，正想找电影专业方面的资料呢

sanjishowUID: 2663179

一直在準備英語中。。。
小弟只想上USC或者NYU的FILM SCHOOL
希望LZ兄留個聯系方式 有機會常跟你取取經

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很强大的帖子··值得细细研究····收藏一个·

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一直在準備英語中。。。
小弟只想上USC或者NYU的FILM SCHOOL
希望LZ兄留個聯系方式 有機會常跟你取取經
sanjishow 发表于 2009-7-10 20:50

我个人资料里有电子邮箱地址，有事写邮件给我吧。

jamneeUID: 2584226

大cong~ 佩服LZ~

LZ大人是在武汉上的大学吗~或者是武汉人到北京念书~？
我现在在武汉念大一马上升大二（WHU），念的也是跟电影不沾边的专业，但是一直很后悔当时考大学的时候没报广院。上了大学之后更后悔当时本科没出国。
因为身边同学相继出国，大家都对国内的大学很不满，自己也有些心急。我知道这样冲动很不好，所以希望多采集前辈的意见。

大一以来一直盘算着自己申请transfer什么的。还有20天就要考TOEFL了，很紧张~
但是又不知道考完托之后该干什么，虽然申请10fall 已经迫在眉睫了……
应该积攒作品，同时了解学校情况吗？目前知道的接受本科转学的 film school 只有UCLA，应该也是很多人的 DREAM school 吧~蔡康永描写的真的很诱人...
据我了解 film production 是一个对工作经验要求比较高的行业，所以是不是如果读了BFA就可以直接工作了？我只是很想学电影，BFA还是MFA对我来说不重要，而且本科转学读两年比较便宜吧？还是本科读完再出去呢（这样的话这两年可以好好积攒作品，也有申奖学金的机会）？

因为已经被身边所有人都出国的事实冲昏了头脑，我现在有点钻牛角尖了……
先跪谢……（因为新手上路不能浏览LZ的个人信息，找不到您的邮箱，所以就在帖里问了~）

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大赞！

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果然牛人，非凡啊~~~