MEDIA ARTS: WRITING
Media Arts majors explore their vision within two distinctive modes: as writers or as digital
motion picture makers. Media Arts applicants should be prepared to discuss their work,
either film or writing, participate in a departmental interview, and discuss their experience
in their medium of interest.
Media Arts Writing Requirements:
1) 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.
Note: Please submit copies only; materials will not be returned.
2) Read one of the listed short stories and please respond to one of the following
questions in 300 words or less.
Short
Stories
Eudora
Welty: The
GabrielPath
Garcia Marquez:
Worn
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World
Nathaniel
Hawthorne: The
Birthmark
Edgar Allen Poe:
The Cask of Amontillado
Questions
How does the main character/s change
from the beginning to the end of the
story?
What do you see as the central conflict
in this story?
Which of the following elements are
important to the telling of the story:
dialogue, point of view, metaphor?