MEDIA ARTS Media Arts majors explore their vision within two distinctive modes: as writers or as digital motion picture makers. The program includes classes in poetry, fiction, screenwriting, and personal publications, as well as fictional, documentary, and experimental video.
Note: Please submit copies only; materials will not be returned.
Submit a portfolio containing a selection of your work (typed):
Please be prepared to talk about your creative work (fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction) as well as what you read on your own for pleasure and intellectual or artistic stimulation.
Additionally, after reading one of the listed short stories, please respond to the following questions in 300 words or less.
Short Stories
Eudora Welty:
The Worn Path
Gabriel Garcia Marquez:
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
Nathaniel Hawthorne:
The Birthmark
Edgar Allen Poe:
The Cask of Amontillado
Media Arts Video Requirements:
A short video (on VHS, CD-ROM, or DVD) of five minutes or less, or a screen play with story boards (five to ten page script with one or more pages story boarded)
Two movie pitches: written ideas for future films that the prospective student would make (without financial restraints)
Watch scenes from one of the listed films and write a typed essay (approximately 500 words) discussing the following aesthetics:
a. The use of the camera (angles, shot selections, composition, etc.)
b. The setting and color
c. The acting/action
d. The mood
e. Plot and theme
f. The film's significance (optional)
Films:
Strangers On A Train, Hitchcock
DVD scene chapters #9-11
Three Colors: Blue, Kieslowski
DVD scene chapters #1-3
Aguirre, Wrath of God, Herzog
DVD scene chapters #22-24
The Last Temptation of Christ, Scorsese
DVD scene chapters #6-7
Do The Right Thing, Lee
DVD scene chapters #28-32
Rashomon, Kurosawa
DVD scene chapters #7-8
