Success! Even though I was totally put off by the fact that I couldn't enter a drawing portfolio because a lot of my pieces were sent to Cooper, I did enter a photography portfolio and one individual piece--unfortunately, I was not allowed to enter more than one individual piece. The result? Gold key for my individual piece, and a silver key for my photography. Not bad, I think, for someone who has only been doing photography for ten months... :)
Should hear back from Cooper soon. I'm actually kinda reluctant to hear from them. Right now, it's nice to think how great it would be to get in. But once I hear from them, there is no question. There is no "what if?" anymore.
I've made a prediction though, that I'll be rolled over to regular decision admissions. It's consistent with how much of my life works out. Just saying. Hah.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Sending off the Hometest!
So it's done. Everything--the entire hometest. I sent it out 12/31 on my way to a New Years Eve party.. and it was one of the most liberating events of my life!
Okay, and I did sort of an interesting setup for the organization of my envelope. Actually it's probably pretty commonn, the way I did it. But I made two bigger envelopes/folders, the same size as the big mailing envelope; one was for my portfolio, and one was for my hometest. The portfolio folder had my five original pieces and the "little black book" with printed photographs of both my photography portfolio and regular portfolio. In the hometest envelope, I put all my hometest pieces as well as a slightly smaller envelope labeled "hometest supplements" which included the actual timeline that I photographed (which you will see below), the research paper on The Sound and the Fury that I based one of my hometest pieces on, my hometest explanations, and preliminary sketches for my hometest pieces.
Outside both folders was another yellow envelope labeled "application supplements" which included my essays, paperwork, recommendation, check for return postage, my sketchbook, portfolio on a CD, and my most recent report card (which wasn't asked for, but is necessary. They have no way to see on my transcripts that I have a 4.0 this year.. which is really good, compared to my accumulative 2.1)
And somehow, it all fit in the mailing envelope just fine!
Okay, and now for my final hometest piece. I don't have the written explanation for it but basically, I wanted to illustrate the progression from my infancy to my young adulthood. I did so with a timeline, and placed pictures, various memorabilia, and a few representational drawings along the timeline that corresponds to the years of my life when the picture was taken or the memorabilia existed and functioned as more than memorabilia, etc. I included stuff like a color copy of an invitation to my baby shower and a color copy of a card from my mother on my 18th birthday. Oh, and some color copies of a few drawings from my childhood (I could only really find two drawings/paintings, and one first sentence of a story I wrote)
So, there's the incline. Now all I need is a VIEW DOWN the incline. So, I photographed it with a view sort of looking down it from an angle. It took my FOREVER to get the lighting right because I had to photograph it inside (my initial plan was to photograph it outside, but there was a full moon that night.) and at first my little spotlight was way too bright and reflected off the ceiling. Finally, after literally almost two hours of experimenting with the lighting, I got it right. I had to lay on the floor on my back with my camera, with a dinky flashlight shining on one end of the timeline. The next day, I was in the emergency room all day because in doing so, I reinjured my back, haha. So.. now I'm free of artwork obligations, but I'm stuck at home on painkillers doing nothing fun! Hah.
So, here's one picture from when my spotlight was too bright and reflected off the walls. Just to give you a better idea of what it looked like.
And here's the final result that I actually sent to Cooper:
Okay, and I did sort of an interesting setup for the organization of my envelope. Actually it's probably pretty commonn, the way I did it. But I made two bigger envelopes/folders, the same size as the big mailing envelope; one was for my portfolio, and one was for my hometest. The portfolio folder had my five original pieces and the "little black book" with printed photographs of both my photography portfolio and regular portfolio. In the hometest envelope, I put all my hometest pieces as well as a slightly smaller envelope labeled "hometest supplements" which included the actual timeline that I photographed (which you will see below), the research paper on The Sound and the Fury that I based one of my hometest pieces on, my hometest explanations, and preliminary sketches for my hometest pieces.
Outside both folders was another yellow envelope labeled "application supplements" which included my essays, paperwork, recommendation, check for return postage, my sketchbook, portfolio on a CD, and my most recent report card (which wasn't asked for, but is necessary. They have no way to see on my transcripts that I have a 4.0 this year.. which is really good, compared to my accumulative 2.1)
And somehow, it all fit in the mailing envelope just fine!
Okay, and now for my final hometest piece. I don't have the written explanation for it but basically, I wanted to illustrate the progression from my infancy to my young adulthood. I did so with a timeline, and placed pictures, various memorabilia, and a few representational drawings along the timeline that corresponds to the years of my life when the picture was taken or the memorabilia existed and functioned as more than memorabilia, etc. I included stuff like a color copy of an invitation to my baby shower and a color copy of a card from my mother on my 18th birthday. Oh, and some color copies of a few drawings from my childhood (I could only really find two drawings/paintings, and one first sentence of a story I wrote)
So, there's the incline. Now all I need is a VIEW DOWN the incline. So, I photographed it with a view sort of looking down it from an angle. It took my FOREVER to get the lighting right because I had to photograph it inside (my initial plan was to photograph it outside, but there was a full moon that night.) and at first my little spotlight was way too bright and reflected off the ceiling. Finally, after literally almost two hours of experimenting with the lighting, I got it right. I had to lay on the floor on my back with my camera, with a dinky flashlight shining on one end of the timeline. The next day, I was in the emergency room all day because in doing so, I reinjured my back, haha. So.. now I'm free of artwork obligations, but I'm stuck at home on painkillers doing nothing fun! Hah.
So, here's one picture from when my spotlight was too bright and reflected off the walls. Just to give you a better idea of what it looked like.
And here's the final result that I actually sent to Cooper:
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