Tony,

I sent in my application on Feb. 1, the last day of the priority application period.

I'm about to be interviewed this week. I assume that the regular deadline applications are currently being reviewed.

Hey Everyone,

I'm a longtime lurker, figured it was past due I start actually getting involved on here.

I have a question for you Chapman folks, and I apologize if this is just retreading old ground. I recieved an email from Chapman requesting a DVD. They specifically mentioned three narrative shorts I've done so obviously those are going. I was also going to include my animation demo reel to show off some other skill sets I can bring to the table.

They also mentioned "creative work that best exemplify your creative and Directorial abilities". On the portfolio list I submitted with my application I included a great deal of other projects things like photography projects and a documentary I shot about a sculpture I helped build and design for Denver International Airport.

Should I include some of these other projects like the photography and the documentary? I know Chapman is huge on the narrative, but I'd like to think these other projects show some creative and technical talents. Do you think they should be included or should I just run with the narratives and the demo reel? Would they want to see a script for a directing applicant?

Thanks everyone for your time. This forum has been incredibly helpful, even for a lurker like me!

TPB,
How is it going? Are you in Denver, I'm outside of Boulder. What dept are you applying for?
As for the reel I do not have any suggestions other than to offer them what they requested. I do not know how they would perceive giving them anything else outside of their suggestions.
Is your artwork still at DIA, I am flying out on Monday to get married in the FLA and would like to keep eye open for it if passing by?
Donald Mckinnon

Hey McKinnod

Nice to hear from a fellow Coloradan!

I'm in Littleton, in the 'burbs southwest of Denver. I applied for film production with a directing emphasis. Did you apply to Chapman?

The sculpture was removed last year. It was a temporary piece. It was really a placeholder for that new giant horse sculpture DIA just put up.

Congrats on getting married! And thanks for your opinion on the reel!

I don't know how useful my words will be considering I'm going into producing but...I put anything and everything into my reel. I did make sure though that it didn't look like I was throwing in the kitchen sink.

Personally I operate on the philosophy that showing extra diversity can never hurt. I wouldn't put in a script, since they have enough of your writing from the application and they are technically asking for a 'reel.'..mmm i hope that was helpful.

TPB,
I was accepted and I am in the cinematography dept. I'm incredibly excited; the dept fits my needs as a student very well. Let me know how things go with your application.
Donald Mckinnon
303-482-6121

If there are any producing applicants on the waitlist, a space is opening up this week as I have given up my spot. Hope is alive for one of you guys. Good luck.

Hey seventhshade I'm a producing applicant and I'm on the waitlist. I hope to get your spot

Where have you decided to go instead of Chapman?

Hey McKinnod and Redpokiepenguin

Thanks for offering some opinions, I appreciate it! I have a better idea of what I want to put in now.

Congrats on your acceptence Don, thats fantastic! I'll keep in touch, let you know how things shake out for me.

Cabezon,

I am headed to AFI. Hopefully both of our groups of students will get to meet up.

I got hold of someone named Eva at Chapman yesterday. It went something like this:

EVA: Our system has been down for awhile, but since it got fixed a couple days ago we've been getting a lot of decisions coming in. So your reply should get to you within the next week.
ME: Um, okay...
EVA: Yeah, or you know, by the end of June. After that, we'll probably move onto the waitlisters.

(doot da doo...)

Wannabe and the rest:

So after all my bellyaching, something has finally happened. I just signed onto my webadvisor and saw this:

MFA in Film and Television Producing 02/11/08
Decision Complete 05/21/08 Orange Campus

So I checked my application status using the search bar on the uni's home page. I got this email moments later:

Application Term: Fall 2008 - Transfers Only
Program: MFA in Film and Television Producing
Location: Orange Campus
Application Status: Your application is complete and is currently being
evaluated. Please contact the Chapman University campus to which you
applied for further information.

Producing is my first choice and Film Studies is my second. As you can see, there is no mention of a change to my second choice so I am still kinda confused. Seems like something Wannabe is going through.

I'm wondering: Have I been rejected from producing? Have I been waitlisted for it? Doesn't seem like anything other than "Admission Approved" is an approval, so how come there is no mention of my second choice?

I guess I'll call Eva again tomorrow. I'm just anxious and confused.

Sounds to me like they're still trying to iron out the kinks from the technical glitch. I called Eva yesterday and she said that a decision for my film studies application should be reached within the next two weeks. Before you call Eva again, check webadvisor just to be safe. The 'decision complete' status could be a goof.

I hope this helps,

J.G.

Waitlisted for first. Moved on to second.

Sure hope someone gives up their seat. =0P

I got the waitlist producing letter in the mail today. I figured as much when they never called me back about an interview. At least I didn't fly out there.

I'm going to have to turn them down if I get in now though, I can't sit around waiting on them until the last minute unfortunately, as I need to respond to job offers now.

I sympathize with you, Jables. We are in the same seat. After 8 months of nothing, I finally got a crappy job offer on Friday (same day the wait list letter came, humorously enough) and a kick-ass interview set up for Thursday.

It is so hard to find a job right now. Who knows when the next good offer will come? It really boils down to making ends meet and keeping food on the table, too.

True True Fox.

Also for me I have a significant other who needed to be able to accept a job offer as well. It's been a fun ride, I got to go to LA for the first time for an interview at UCLA, but I ultimately came up short at all 3 schools. I still have a lot of freelance opportunities (I'm heading to Vegas in a few weeks for freelance videography), but will likely be taking a job outside of the production industry for now. I think the fact that I just graduated this May may have had a significant negative effect on me, more than anything else, everyone else who I've met for the most part has been out of school for a few years.

It's tough to tell when you get almost no feedback from anyone throughout this process, but that's the way the system works. Good luck to those of you who got into Chapman and elsewhere, and I'll be notifying them soon to remove me from the waitlist, so hopefully that'll allow someone from here to get in more quickly.

Hey Folks,

Has anyone going for the directing emphasis at Chapman gotten any word on acceptence?

I've seen producers, editors, and cinematographers in this thread, but haven't seen or heard anything from directors.

I applied to Chapman (Directing) but I haven´t received any answer either! I hope they answer us soon! I´m intenational, so the mail takes few weeks to arrive to my country!

good luck!!!