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terp79
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Me!
yes, I was in 2005's contest. Designed a Nightmare before Christmas ride for Disney Studios (aka MGM).
http://media.www.bsudailynews.com/m...ews/Student.Wins.Disney.Contest-1306968.shtml
yes, I was in 2005's contest. Designed a Nightmare before Christmas ride for Disney Studios (aka MGM).
http://media.www.bsudailynews.com/m...ews/Student.Wins.Disney.Contest-1306968.shtml
could we see what you designed plz i'm really interested
GenerationX
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As for your college majors and/or minors, I would think Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Architecture, Graphic Design, and Cinematography would be good choices.
terp79
Member
Well as for showing what I did, alas I can't. Once you enter you sign a confidentiality agreement and your entry becomes WDI property, and I wouldn't break my agreement especially with the mouse. lol!!!
The contest was not tough in 2005, it's really not about the contest and trying to beat someone. All the finalists are there and you all bond real fast over each others love for Disney. I will say that it is tough to figure out all the stuff you want to say in 15 mins. That's all the time we had back in 2005. You make your entry what you want it to be. I spent an entire year before I could enter the contest working on my idea. I know some who did there entry in 3 weeks. It all depends on what you want to showcase and how you showcase your talents.
The contest over the past years has been re-imagineered and is much better than it has ever been. One of my friends from Canada won this year with his design. His idea was killer.
You meet a lot of killer people, it's like a dream come true.
Good luck and enter...if you make it then you're on one path to making your dreams a reality.
The contest was not tough in 2005, it's really not about the contest and trying to beat someone. All the finalists are there and you all bond real fast over each others love for Disney. I will say that it is tough to figure out all the stuff you want to say in 15 mins. That's all the time we had back in 2005. You make your entry what you want it to be. I spent an entire year before I could enter the contest working on my idea. I know some who did there entry in 3 weeks. It all depends on what you want to showcase and how you showcase your talents.
The contest over the past years has been re-imagineered and is much better than it has ever been. One of my friends from Canada won this year with his design. His idea was killer.
You meet a lot of killer people, it's like a dream come true.
Good luck and enter...if you make it then you're on one path to making your dreams a reality.
That is a really good ?
terp79
Member
1. The rules are simple: you must be a college student majoring in one of the majors it lists on the website (art, creative writing, architecture, engineering, etc.) or you can belong to a professional group dealing with diversity such as SWE (society of women engineer's), African American Architects, etc. There is a huge list of professional organizations you can belong to in order to enter the contest. In 2005 it was ONLY open to college students but the website and rules now make it sound as if anyone can enter if they just belong to a professional organization dealing with diversity.
2. In 2005, durring the first day at WDI, the college relations representative came into the room and said she had 4 openings for internships, most of them where engineering and architecture positions. She listed them off and told anyone in the room who wanted to apply to follow her. 3 of the students where offered internships and one of had to forego their's because there was a problem with their work visa. 2 of them completed their internships at WDW but both where not hired on full time.
3. My friend that was in last years contest describes the same events (college rep coming in and asking) but then each finalist got a chance to have a sit down interview with an imagineer in the dept. they most wanted to work in. My friend interviewed for Blue Sky.
4. My friend also said that one guy who did not make finals for the contest was brought in for an internship just becuase of his entry. WDI liked his work and called him up. So that proves you don't even have to make finals to get noticed.
I hope that answers some of your questions.
2. In 2005, durring the first day at WDI, the college relations representative came into the room and said she had 4 openings for internships, most of them where engineering and architecture positions. She listed them off and told anyone in the room who wanted to apply to follow her. 3 of the students where offered internships and one of had to forego their's because there was a problem with their work visa. 2 of them completed their internships at WDW but both where not hired on full time.
3. My friend that was in last years contest describes the same events (college rep coming in and asking) but then each finalist got a chance to have a sit down interview with an imagineer in the dept. they most wanted to work in. My friend interviewed for Blue Sky.
4. My friend also said that one guy who did not make finals for the contest was brought in for an internship just becuase of his entry. WDI liked his work and called him up. So that proves you don't even have to make finals to get noticed.
I hope that answers some of your questions.
terp79
Member
I don't know where the best college's are for creative writing. I'm not an english major, I was a fine arts major. Google it, is what I recommend! If you're looking into creative writing, I'd also consider taking script writing and theatrical direction writing on top of your basic classes.
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As a former teacher I have to ask. When you were in High school did you write stories that teachers told you were pretty good? Did they enter any in state school publications? Do you write stories for fun? Do you have ideas running through your head that you think would be good for TV show or movie?
I think learning how to be a creative writer is sort of impossible. Seems like it just comes naturally. I think classes can help you perfect it, but you can't learn it.
i also can tell you that if you go into the creative writing classes as a non language arts/writing major, you will get the hardest critiques in the class because the majors think you have no right to be in their classes or league almost. Don't listen to them though. If you are good, the professors will let you know it. . My son doesn't go by all the rules of writing and has had professors remind the majors that many good writers didn't either.
In his engineering classes the profs know him as the one who can write in sentences. LOL So dare to be different and you can succeed. If it is what you want you have to try, but set up a base where you also have alternatives. Good luck.
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As a former teacher I have to ask. When you were in High school did you write stories that teachers told you were pretty good? Did they enter any in state school publications? Do you write stories for fun? Do you have ideas running through your head that you think would be good for TV show or movie?
I think learning how to be a creative writer is sort of impossible. Seems like it just comes naturally. I think classes can help you perfect it, but you can't learn it.
i also can tell you that if you go into the creative writing classes as a non language arts/writing major, you will get the hardest critiques in the class because the majors think you have no right to be in their classes or league almost. Don't listen to them though. If you are good, the professors will let you know it. . My son doesn't go by all the rules of writing and has had professors remind the majors that many good writers didn't either.
In his engineering classes the profs know him as the one who can write in sentences. LOL So dare to be different and you can succeed. If it is what you want you have to try, but set up a base where you also have alternatives. Good luck.
terp79
Member
The first stages of designing most anything at WDI happens in Blue Sky. That's the department/phase in which all the initial ideas are brought to the table. It's the huge brainstorming session where all ideas are tossed around, sorted and plussed.
Most of the Blue Sky sessions happen out in Glendale and I will tell you as I have told a many imagineers in training. Blue Sky is what everyone wants to do, this is the department everyone wants to be in and it's not easy to achieve.
Not to worry you can be in all sorts of departments and pulled in for a blue sky session where you basically throw your ideas around and help out the project leader/show producer for an afternoon.
Most of the Blue Sky sessions happen out in Glendale and I will tell you as I have told a many imagineers in training. Blue Sky is what everyone wants to do, this is the department everyone wants to be in and it's not easy to achieve.
Not to worry you can be in all sorts of departments and pulled in for a blue sky session where you basically throw your ideas around and help out the project leader/show producer for an afternoon.
Figment571
Member
I think I am going to take a stage tech class next year, working lights and ect. Is that good to know? I think it would be because of staging and what not.
Also I just worry a lot about what ifs. What if I don't make it to Imagineering, then what? If I have worked up all my time working for this goal and I don't attain it, what do I do then? I just am a little bit of a worrier.
Also I just worry a lot about what ifs. What if I don't make it to Imagineering, then what? If I have worked up all my time working for this goal and I don't attain it, what do I do then? I just am a little bit of a worrier.
Right now I'm going for an MFA in Illustration and Graphic Design. I am going to pick a second masters degree afterwards, either an MBA (international business/marketing) or another MFA (industrial design)
After speaking with a few friends in WDI, they all suggested the same thing... MFA industrial design.
Not that I'd go to WDI, but that's as I was told
After speaking with a few friends in WDI, they all suggested the same thing... MFA industrial design.
Not that I'd go to WDI, but that's as I was told