Loot for your shoot.™
c/o Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
18115 Campus Way NE
Box 358530
Bothell, WA 98011-8246
February 4, 2008
Dear Sir or Madam:
We understand that you are on your way to
earning a bachelor's degree at the University of Washington, Bothell.
We know that the graduates of that institution are consistently
bright, well-rounded, thoughtful, perceptive, and creative (perhaps
partly as a result of the outstanding professors there). We therefore
believe that you have all the makings of an excellent documentary
filmmaker. We are prepared to offer you $500,000 to make a
fifty-minute documentary film on a topic of your choice (the only
limitation is that the film cannot be about you) if we select a proposal that you submit. Please
carefully review the attached documentation. We look forward to reading your
proposal.
This offer is only for UWB students!
Sincerely,
David S. Goldstein, Ph.D.
Founder and President
Please download the application form (questionnaire) from the Assignments area of Blackboard and follow its instructions.
You will submit your paper electronically in
your final learning portfolio, for which I will provide separate
submission
instructions. I
expect to return final learning portfolios, which will contain your
proposal, with my comments, within ten days of your
submission, so the earlier you submit your portfolio, the sooner you
will get it back.
Your proposal
must be a Microsoft Word document.
Be sure to allow some time for unforeseen problems with the electronic submission or other unforeseeable circumstances like illness or computer malfunction.
All of the ideas and writing must be your own, except when you cite the contributions of others (e.g., using the ideas or words of a published author). You may--and are encouraged to--use the Writing Center <http://www.uwb.edu/writingcenter/>.
Your proposal (the version submitted in your learning portfolio) will be evaluated and rated as follows:
Completeness (responds
appropriately to the requirements) 20 percent Depth of response (quality of
detail and support; sophistication of ideas and argument) 70 percent Quality of writing
(organization; spelling, grammar, diction, punctuation) 10 percent TOTAL 30 percent of final course grade
Thank you for preparing this application.
We look forward to eviscerating evaluating your
proposal. Our Department of Application Viability and Importance
Determination (a.k.a. DAVID) will return its evaluation of your
proposal, with carefully considered comments, about ten days
after you submit it. If your application is approved, a check for
$500,000 will be attached to the returned proposal. In the event that
no check accompanies the returned application, we hope that the
chance to think about why a film should be made and what its
purpose would be, in the context of American documentary tradition,
has been a worthwhile exercise anyway.
This page last updated February 23, 2008.
