Your film portfolio should include 5-7 pieces, at least three of which should be completed films and/or screenplays. You’re welcome to include work in other mediums (drawing, photography, music) as well as process materials, examples of your sketchbook, reflective journals, works-in-progress, and other items that can help inform us of your creative process, influences, and technical proficiency.

If your portfolio lacks completed films, please respond to two of these three prompts to include with your application.

1. Film a scene of up to two minutes that uses a single light source to light a conversation between two people. Choose the location with some care: diner, living room, kitchen, public park? Your goal with the conversation: neither person is willing to say what they really mean. Give it some emotional resonance.
2. Write a 3-5 page scene set in a single location such as a kitchen, a diner, a party, a car. Two characters are talking, but neither is really paying attention to what the other person is saying. This could be comic or dramatic. Use standard screenplay formatting if possible.
3. Find twelve to fifteen slides of a family from a site like archive.org. The photos should compel you, hold your interest. Download them and lay the pictures out on a timeline (in Premiere Pro, iMovie, or Davinci Resolve) and construct a fictitious story about them, using voiceover and/or text.