Art study application season It has arrived. For students who are preparing to apply, Collection of overseas works, application materials, document translation, language examination It's already a headache, but what the natural light wants to tell you is that we should be vigilant to prepare for the Dream School interview! This is an article Interview Guide for Art Study Abroad Application Season Today, natural light will talk about some of the most common questions in the interview Art study interview Those things!

Q1. "Why does the school ask me to attend an interview when I have already submitted my portfolio?"

This is the question that natural light is most often asked by students about the interview for studying abroad. Compared with the application for other majors, students studying abroad in art have clearly demonstrated their professional strength and artistic quality through the collection of professional works. Why should some schools set up an interview session to "embarrass" students? At this time, you need to read this article Interview Guide for 2019 Art Study Abroad Application Season oh

　　 Art study interview This is a process in which schools and applicants get to know each other. Through the collection of relevant professional works, the school actually has a certain understanding of students' professional ability. However, the collection of overseas works is not all for one student, and the school cannot fully obtain a student's future planning, understanding of art and colleges from the collection of works.

The setting of interview can help the school better understand a student's logical thinking extension ability, ability to understand and interpret art, ability to view art/design works critically, communication ability, whether there is a unique personality and other comprehensive qualities can be judged through interview.

Therefore, when you understand the situation of the art school, you must know whether the art school you want to apply for will arrange an interview.

Q2. "Which art colleges have interviews?"

Applications for art schools vary, and some schools require students to attend interviews, such as RCA Royal Academy of Arts; Some students will ask students to submit other works besides professional works, such as Parsons Challenge of Parsons Design Institute Or some schools have both interviews and other work requirements, such as Independent proposition of RISD Rhode Island Design Institute Or, some schools need an interview for a certain major, but another major does not need an interview. For example, the architecture major of Cornell University needs an interview, but the engineering major does not need an interview

It is very important to find out whether your Dream School has an interview, because "having an interview" means that you need to communicate with the college in advance about the interview time, interview method, and whether there is a proposition creation in the interview, and keep abreast of the latest interview trends, plan the reserved time, and start preparing for the interview.

This interview guide for the 2019 art study season summarizes the major art schools in Britain and the United States that have interviews and their interviews:

　 Colleges and universities with overseas study interviews in the United States:

Parsons/Parsons School of Design (Master)

RISD/Rhode Island School of Design (Video interview, there may be multiple rounds)

Pratt/Pratt College of Arts (second interview may be notified)

SAIC/Chicago Academy of Arts

CMU/Carnegie Mellon University

Cornell/Cornell University (Architecture)

MICA/Maryland College of Arts

Syracuse/Syracuse University

SVA/New York School of Visual Arts (according to the applicant's personal situation)

SCAD/Savannah School of Art and Design

CalArts/California Academy of Arts

UCLA/UCLA

CCA/California University of the Arts

Harvard/Harvard University (GSD major, optional, according to the applicant's personal situation)

NYU/New York University Tisch

ACCD/Art Center School of Design

　 Colleges and universities that design the interview for studying abroad in the UK:

RCA/Royal Academy of Art

AA/Architecture Alliance College

UAL/London University of the Arts

Glasgow

Goldsmiths/Goldsmith College, University of London

BCU/Birmingham City University (jewelry design related majors)

Edinburgh/University of Edinburgh (jewelry design)

Southampton/University of Southampton

Kingston/Kingston University

UCL/University College London

Sheffield/Sheffield University (School of Architecture)

The above summary does not completely cover all art schools. If you want to know whether your Dream School has arranged an interview, you can come to the natural light to learn more!

Q3. "How to interview specifically? What are the processes? "

　　 Interview Guide for 2019 Art Study Abroad Application Season We will talk about the classification of art study abroad interview, which is generally divided into online and offline. Online includes Video interview and telephone interview , offline is divided into School interview and interview in China Video interview, telephone interview and school interview are all well understood, so natural light means "interview in China".

Everyone must have such an experience. When you explain your design intention to others over the phone, you are thirsty and impatient. As a result, the other party says, "... ok... but..." or "Sorry, but I...", which will immediately make you want to go through the phone/computer screen and "theorize" with him in front of you to ensure that you can solve the problem in minutes!

The "interview in China" we want to talk about is that the school will travel across the sea to give you a face-to-face opportunity to "theory"! For most students living in China, it is unrealistic to have an interview at the university. Therefore, some art colleges and universities will come to the office of domestic colleges and universities in China every year for enrollment interview in order not to miss any "shining gold". For example, UAL London University of the Arts and MICA Maryland College of the Arts will send their own admissions officers to China for interview every year. Students only need to make an appointment in advance and prepare the required materials and professional works collection, then they can communicate with the admissions interviewer face to face and get an offer! (For example, the handwritten offer in the natural light offer list is directly signed and issued by the UAL admissions interviewer during the interview in China.)

Each school has different specific requirements, so the interview method will vary from school to school. But no matter what kind of interview, we should do our homework well and make an appointment for the interview in advance. During the interview, the number of interviewers is generally between 1-4. Some schools will choose group interview, that is, multiple students will interview at the same time. At this time, people should not pay too much attention to others' answers, because it will affect your interview performance. However, "one-to-one" or "one to many" situations may also occur. Sometimes even in the same college, different interviews will be conducted in different ways.

The interview for art study abroad is generally within 10-30 minutes, but there are also special circumstances, such as IDE and GID majors of RCA Royal Academy of Arts Students are required to complete the creative proposition on the spot in the interview, so the time will be extended to 1-2 hours. During the process, in addition to questions and answers, some interviewers also require students to do on-site small creations, such as "how would you express a project in another form of art to express your works?"; Or the interviewer may give you a topic, and you need to use simple drawings to explain your ideas.

After the interview, there is a "long" wait. At this time, it may happen that the interview time of two people is the same, but the other party has received the offer, but your reply is delayed, which is also very common. For example, the fastest online interview offer issued by Natural Light this year was 2 hours, but some students in the same major waited for 3 or 4 months to receive the offer.

After learning about the interview, the interview guide for the 2019 Art Study Abroad Application Season introduces the most exciting part - "What will the interviewer ask during the interview?!"

Q4. "What will the interviewer ask during the interview?"

　　 Interview Guide for 2019 Art Study Abroad Application Season Taking RCA/Royal Academy of Arts as an example, which is most often mentioned in the interview of art study abroad, we will talk about three completely different professional interviews: Design Products, Visual Communication, and IDE:

　　 -Design Products

Design Products Interview Challenge

　　 During the interview of Design Products, students are required to complete an interview challenge:

Our oceans and lakes are faced with the problem of plastic pollution. Large plastic wastes and products containing small plastic residues will enter rivers or other water bodies, such as shampoo washed into sewers, flow into the sea, and be swallowed by marine organisms, which will lead to death and disease. Faced with this problem, what simple and effective design schemes can students create to intervene or prevent this situation? Or is there any solution that can quickly and conveniently remove these plastic wastes from water?

·Please try to avoid relying on complex technology to remove plastic "magic" machines and production processes.

·Please show your creativity and ideas in 1-2 pages of PDF. During the interview, applicants only need to show 2 minutes of creative video, so please briefly explain your design intention in the interview.

　　 In the face of this proposition, the interview guide for the 2019 art study abroad application season helps you draw the key points:

Ocean and lake encounter plastic pollution: The problem of plastic pollution actually involves many aspects. In addition to water pollution, there are also many impacts on land, air quality, and human beings themselves. But the premise of this challenge is aimed at plastic water pollution.

Simple and effective design scheme - avoid relying on "magic" machines and production processes of complex processes and technologies: these two points are very easy to understand. To sum up, they are actually just one sentence - "environment-friendly" schemes that can be implemented.

1-2 pages of PDF&2min creation video: This can be seen as a hard requirement for the Interview Challenge. You also need 1-2 pages of PDF and a 2min small video recording your creation process.

　　 Ready for the interview challenge, do you think the interview is half finished? Of course not! In addition to the interview challenge, the major also prepared other interview questions for students, such as:

1. Select a professional work collection to introduce (the interviewer will ask relevant questions based on this work)

2. Your attitude towards design?

3. Why RCA Royal Academy of Art?

4. Anything else to ask the interviewer? (Is there anything else you want to know about school and major?)

5. Who will bear the tuition fees?

　　 -Visual Communication

RCA Royal Academy of Art's Visual Communication is divided into three professional directions: Graphic Design, Illustrationand Experimental Communication. Interviews in each major direction are more or less different. For interviews with different students, the question setting will also be different:

For example, according to the natural light Apply for RCA Royal College of Art Graphic Design The interviewers asked the following questions:

1. Select a work to introduce

2. What is the audience of this work?

3. Which part of the work do you think is the most important?

4. Why RCA Royal Academy of Arts?

Another example Apply for RCA Royal Academy of Art Illustration The students in the direction were asked:

1. Briefly introduce your own illustration collection

2. Why do you use such media/materials to show your works?

3. What do you think are the differences between Chinese and British students in communication?

4. What problems do you think RCA may encounter?

5. Is there anything else you want to ask the interviewer?

　　 -IDE

about RCA Royal Academy of Arts and IC Imperial College of Technology IDE for For the "Xueba" cooperation project that can obtain double degrees, the university also gives specific "limit" requirements:

Like Design Products, IDE also gives "independent interview proposition", but the proposition of this project is called "Creative Exercise". From the name, we can see that the interview proposition of IDE is more creative and divergent. When we look at the proposition, we will be more certain:

When you are thinking about the shark in the aquarium, suddenly a sound of "Bloop!" pulls you back from your thinking. It turns out that your glasses fell into the shark aquarium. At this time, you who are deeply myopic need to salvage your glasses. Fortunately, the staff of the aquarium can lend you their tools, so what will you do?

　　A.agression?

　　B.subversion?

　　C.diversion?

Select a method from the above three options and complete the whole process according to the following requirements:

Use drawings to quickly describe the 10 solutions you can think of for this problem; You can use any material for simple modeling to restore your ideas. You need to spend 1 minute in the interview to express your ideas about this work; It only needs to show the final concept achievements, not the whole creation process* It is not allowed to use any auxiliary tools in the form of electronic products

　　 RCA Royal Academy of Arts IDE is a major/project that attaches great importance to students' creativity Therefore, during the interview, students will also pay special attention to their imaginations. The topic may not involve a lot of professional content, but it is absolutely open-minded. Maybe when you get the title, you will whisper to yourself: What the hell? Did the IDE send the wrong interview questions?

Before the 1min presentation, that is, after the completion of the creation, students must try to reserve about 5min for themselves to straighten out their scripts and expressions, sort out their creative ideas and logic, and summarize their ideas as orderly as possible, so that they can be treated calmly when facing the interviewer.

In the process of modeling and developing plans, students should not restrict their own ideas and expressions. You can use any things and materials available around you. For example, there are students in natural light this year. Facing the above proposition, they built a model with napkins at hand, and some students have no materials that can be directly "grabbed", So he simply made a gesture with his hands.

The interview between IDE and another professional GID should have taken the longest time in all professional interviews of RCA Royal Academy of Arts (GID's Creative Exercise is 2 hours). During this time, students must be as clear as possible to let the interviewer understand your creativity and design points at the first time.

　　 In addition to Creative Exercise, natural light students also recalled other questions raised by IDE interviewers:

1. Specific introduction to a project in the collection

2. Your own plan for the future

3. What professional direction do you want to further study after entering RCA?

4. Which designer do you like? And why do you like her/him?

5. Professional issues on design

Not only RCA, but also natural light will summarize the "face experience" of each student who participated in the interview, such as MCAD Minneapolis School of Art and Design, SCAD Savannah School of Art and Design, UCL University College London, Goldsmiths College London University, UAL London University of Arts All majors in colleges and universities serve as databases to help more students prepare for interviews!

Q5. "What do I need to prepare for the interview?"

Today's summary of natural light Interview Guide for 2019 Art Study Abroad Application Season In addition to some "interview tips" put forward with you, the Natural Light "six major departments" excellent teacher team and the exclusive admissions officer alliance also put forward some suggestions for your interview, hoping to help you:

1. Make an appointment for the interview in advance, and try not to arrange other things around the interview time. Interviews are overdue. Once they are missed, they may have to wait another year. Therefore, once there is a need for an interview, you should make an appointment as soon as possible, and try to ensure that you will not be disturbed by anything else before or after the appointment period.

2. In the face of unexpected situations that may occur in the interview, adjust your status as soon as possible to avoid being "disturbed". There may be some unexpected situations during the interview, such as network disconnection, connection failure, black screen, sudden short circuit in the head, forgetting words, etc. Don't just give up the interview later!

3. Don't pay too much attention to the interviewer. During the interview, it is absolutely necessary to communicate with the interviewer carefully and answer his questions carefully, but never be led by the interview attitude. The interviewer will show a lot of emotions, such as interest, seriousness, doubt, and even a cold face, and may not follow the routine. For example, in natural light, some students have met the interviewer for less than 5 minutes, and the whole process was uninterested... Students were confused on the spot, but did not expect to receive an offer a week later.

I don't know what natural light has prepared for you today Interview Guide for 2019 Art Study Abroad Application Season Do you like it? 2019 Art Study Application Season At the beginning, for example, the UAL London University of the Arts will hold its own "interview in China" on October 29 this year. Students who want to participate, please contact the natural light to enter the registration channel as soon as possible! If you also want to know more interview information of other art schools, welcome to find natural light for free!

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