Tony I want in ! : March 2015

Sunday 29 March 2015

THE PITS (S.C.A. Interview)

Around the beginning of this year I did Tony's Creative Test for the Watford Creative Advertising course, sending it off, awaiting for a reply, expecting a automatic interview date as promised by the college.

Its been a while since awaiting that reply, and I began to get inpatient, which has lead me to looking at other options, just in case all does not go well!

That when I came across the secretive School of Communication Arts 2.0. I was surprised to find this school based solely around turning students into creatives fit for the top of the advertising industry, thus their focus and degree of this course is getting you a job in advertising.

The reason for being surprised was due to me thinking I had found every course around advertising in the UK, but out of the blue comes this school, so I decided after reading into it, with its strong industry links, funded by top agencies in London, taught by top creative professionals, it all added up to applying for it!

Soon after I got a phone interview with the dean 'Marc Lewis', which went successful and lead to a interview day against 7 other candidates. It was a interview not about portfolio, but concerning what made you, you, a interview that would see if you were fit for the course, a interview which I had to prepare a presentation to introduce me to the class, therefore it had to be memorable!

The dean of the school described me as grafter and someone who had the attributes to be a art director, I took note of that feedback on the phone and what inspired me as a creative, and nailed it down to my taste of competition and my dream of being at the top of my profession, a world champion, a dream of going the distance, ROCKY!

Therefore I made a ROCKY spoof and dubbed it THE PITS, the titled inspired after the venue I would be presenting in, this consisted of a poster to build the hype up and to leave my mark, and a training montage video to make the hype even more bigger, which will finally conclude with me challenging one of the school's students down to a One Minute Brief head to head!

It all went to plan, the posters and the video, with the presentation and the interview day as a whole going better then I expected, I made a wave with a teacher of the school tweeting my presentation on Twitter, and a couple of students approaching me after, congratulating me and saying I had balls to do I want did on stage, one student even went as far as to say he would be very surprised if I did not get in!

So it all looks promising, but you can never be too sure, I will find out on Tuesday or Thursday through phone call by the dean, if I have got in or not, I am just in limbo at the moment! I think its best if I start contacting the Watford course if my date for the interview is coming any sooner, I can not wait!!! I just hope my future is resolved soon thats all, where am I going next year, so I can drive 100% behind it!

Thanks for reading, peace out!