Work to be Included in Portfolio

Print

Menu: front cover folder


Menu, continued: inside spread, folder


Menu, continued: back cover folder


Menu: inside spread (3-panel folds to fit inside folder, above)


Menu, continued: outside spread (3-panel folds to fit inside folder, above)


Admit One: Art Book
Cover (below)


Admit One: Art Book
Title Page/Table of Contents (below)


Admit One: Art Book
selected contents (p 24-25)


Nutrition Notebook: 4-page, 2-color newsletter (p 1, below)


Nutrition Notebook, continued: (p 2-3, inside spread, below)


Nutrition Notebook, continued: (p 4, below)


HOW Magazine
Cover (below)


HOW, continued: table of contents (below)


HOW, continued: 2-page, inside spread (below)



Motion
Egypt slide show (below, Flash)


Walk Cycle (below, Flash)


Branching Story: "Casino" (below, Flash)



Websites
Storytelling Arts: homepage (below)
http://www.storytellingarts.net/


STA continued: audio pages (below)



Resolution: Movie Website
Homepage (below)


Resolution, continued: "Making Resolution" (intro/premise, below)


Resolution, continued: "Surveillance" (cast, below)


Resolution, continued: "Identify the Mole" (game, below)


St. Andrew's Church: Website
Homepage (below)


NJ Assoc. Realtors: Interactive Map (I chose the images, no coding.)
Summer Internship, 2008 (http://www.realstorynj.com/GetToKnowNJ.html)

Various Formats Digital Portfolios Take

See Chapter 4, Designing a Digital Portfolio, pgs 60-64.

Portable Media
• Zip disks
• CD’s
• Mini CD’s
• DVD
• Laptop

Online
• Email
• Personal website
• Group presentations
• Gallery
• Resource book

1. Well, I’m taking DMA250 with the intent of designing my own portfolio so obviously a personal, online portfolio is at the top of my preferred formats. Although in a pinch, I’d email work to fulfill specific requests (I’ve done this in the past, when I didn’t know any better.)
2. If worse comes to worst, I might consider investigating the templates Sharpe Online offers.
3. I’d never leave portable media behind. Too easy to get lost in the office shuffle or worse yet they’d have trouble opening it… just all kind of horror stories spring to mind. Not to mention the COST! Yeah, like I’m going to buy 50 zip disks and leave them with strangers: not!

Work I’d Like to Highlight in my Portfolio…

Highlight? Like I have so much super work I have the luxury of throwing stuff out? I know I should not pad my portfolio with ‘stuff’ just to take up space – Art Directors catch onto that in the first few minutes of an interview, and then you’re left trying to defend pieces you’re not particularly proud of but, “they’re-my-children-and-I-love-each-and-every-one-of-them” sets in. Better have some compelling stories up your sleeve if you go that route.

“Digital Media Artist” (keywords I’m using in my job searches) is a pretty broad and encompassing job description. That being the case, I’m planning on taking the ‘shot-gun’ approach and include work from my web, print and motion (Flash) classes. Ill advised as it may be, I have no intention of editing my portfolio for specific job requirements. One online portfolio fits all. My viewer can thumb through the entire body of work and consider pieces relevant to the position advertised.

True, this might take up some of their ‘valuable time’ but the design of a website (for instance) might strike a chord even though I’m applying for a print position.

From what I’ve seen of online student portfolios, everyone’s competent (though I might not agree with their taste, but that’s just me); some are gifted (but that might just be me agreeing with their taste); and a select few are extraordinary (no disclaimer required.) I don’t think any specific project in my online portfolio will distinguish me from the vast majority of job seekers. And at this point in time (graduation/digital portfolio creation) it’s too late to go back and create that “one-more-thing” that will tip the scales in my favor.

However, that “one-more-thing” could end up being the last project I create in school before entering the fray: a dynamic, fun-to-navigate digital portfolio.