How to Stand Out in Boarding School Applications with Multimedia Links
Multimedia links can help your child stand out in their boarding school applications.
Planning on applying to boarding schools? Besides standardized test results and school grades, boarding schools also assess students’ extracurricular interests and achievements. It’s hard to paint a clear picture for the admissions team by just writing about them on the application form. Multimedia links help showcase them in a visual way.
What are multimedia links?
Multimedia links are any videos, portfolios, or other presentations of your child’s interests, activities, and achievements that can be accessed through a link to an external website (YouTube, Vimeo, Wordpress etc.). On the application form for a boarding school, you will be asked to provide the URL link(s), and a brief description of the content of the media.
What to include in multimedia links?
Common examples of multimedia links include videos, a personal website, newspaper articles, music files, blog pages, or YouTube channels. To create an even stronger impression, your child can create a multimedia portfolio that includes a video, blog post and a website.
How to create a video for multimedia links?
A video is the most engaging type of media your child can show the admissions team. Here is how students in Babel Film Workshop create a video and related content for multimedia links:
Plan: Identify which of your child’s interests or achievements would be the strongest to showcase in the video. Consider what types of shots would be good to include, and make a plan for when and where you’ll be filming, or obtaining existing footage
Film: Film your shots according to the plan, or obtain existing footage
Edit: Put your footage together in an editing app, and add music and titles to polish it up
Create portfolio: Write a blog post that supplements the video, and showcase both the video and blog post on a personal website
Begin creating your multimedia links
Babel Film Workshop provides 1-on-1 support on creating multimedia links for boarding school applications.
Creating a video can be a stressful experience because it involves many steps and specialized skills. If your child would like to begin creating videos for their multimedia links, they can do so by working with a professional mentor through Babel Film Workshop’s Mentorship Program. Contact us today to schedule a trial session.
Learn more about our Mentorship Programs here.