Do schools care if your portfolio was done on cheap equipment?

[slackerinabox]

I'm applying for film school and have to put together a vidoe portfolio.. Do you think that they'll care if I shot everything on low-end equipment as long as the content is good? Sure, image quality suffers but does someone that uses a $4,000 pristine DV camera have an edge?

 

[brunswickite]

i would assume that they WOULD not care about the quality and only look at the content

but if the person with the "$4000 pristine DV camrera" has good content as well then they might have an edge

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Given other fields, good equipment gives you and edge. But even a well polished turd is still a turd.

 

[dmw16]

HAve any content you could post?
-doug

 

[alkemyst]

From what I understand many of the people that get access to high end equipment think just doing so = good film/production/images/etc. Same thing with Music majors.

However, most colleges can see / hear through the crappy equipment and catch the artistic points. That will be the priority.

Think about all the ultra low budget films that actually became hits. Grainy black and white, crappy effects, etc, but the storyline was great.