I have been stressed beyond contemplation about this dang advertising video that I have to do in order to apply for the advertising program at BYU. Why does it have to be so hard? My brother applied for one of the most prestigious business colleges in America, that being the Marriot School of Business at BYU, and all he had to do was write a letter of intent... Ya... that was a tough one. Heaven forbid he forgot to save and he'd have to write his paper again. ha ha. (Not tryin' to lay the hates on ya Corkles, just on how easy you have it).
Let me explain how tough it is to apply for the advertising program.
First...you must take all of the pre-requisites. Not too big of a deal, it's normal.
Second...you must take a test. A test that is purely on advertising. You don't have to ace it, you just have to show that you know advertising. It actually wasn't too bad. Not counting the endless nights during the semester I spent studying for the class tests, I studied about 5-7 hours for the test and did decent enough on it.
Third...you have to build a portfolio. This portfolio can't be a standard portfolio. It has to be creative and show the head hanchos that they cannot no longer live without you. Difficult...but do-able. I'm pretty good with photoshop and have confidence in that.
Fourth...you must create a video about yourself. Now I have taken tough classes. I have passed really tough tests. And I have written a few papers about myself, but I have never, not in a million years, come up with a video about myself. I am usually pretty confident in what I do and how I do it, but I am really struggling coming up with a dynamite idea.
So far my idea is to just film myself struggling to come up with an idea. I think it's a good idea, but that's the idea right...to have an idea...and somehow put it on tape. I feel like it's been done before, and in order for it to be good...it's going to have to be really good.
Though these will be some fairly long days, I'm going to come up with something, and when I do, you'll be aware. The video is going to be baller and everyone is going to love it. The Advertising program won't be able to turn me away. Though I would love to turn away from this whole process.
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