Project 1 Research Progression Opportunities:
Research and link from UCAS – How To Become a Cinematographer
https://www.ucas.com/ucas/after-gcses/find-career-ideas/explore-jobs/job-profile/cinematographer
Skills you need:
I have found this Digital Designer job which is something I may be interested in as it seems to be a lot of graphic design based stuff and editing on photos I have taken.
Project 2 Creating a Digital Portfolio:
These are some examples of photographers portfolios that I have looked into:
Mike Kelley is an architectural photographer on here that has presented probably one of his popular photos on his front page to attract more people to his photos
As you can see in these images there are some photos of their work and also some writing. Although you can write about yourself in your portfolio, the thing people mainly care about is your photography itself because as a photographer, that is all your work is just in an image.
The photo on the top right is the portfolio of William Eggleston, an American photographer. He has put the name of his photo, the date of it and where it was taken. This gives people reading through his portfolio a bit more information about his photos without it being to jarring to look at.
Mick Rock, english photographer, has made his layout darker in the background whilst also giving his photos a white border to make it easier to look at for anyone on his portfolio.
A portfolio is really important for a photographer but should always be presented well, otherwise people will loose interest in your work which you just don’t want.
Adobe Xd is a platform that allows you to make your own digital portfolio and send it over to any of your devices like laptop or phone if you have the app. Using this allows you to easily put photos onto your pages and also display them neatly as you have tools to help you with that.
I have labeled each page with a number and also gave the photos a slight grey outline to make the photos look neater.
I have put two vertical photos on a page to fill up the space and then for the horizontal/square ones I have only put one on a page.
By dragging the blue arrows to each photo I have made it easier for people to scroll through my portfolio.
I put the square photos on every other page to make it look more presentable.
These are some screenshots I took of some of my portfolio slides. I have tried to keep it as neat as possible and easy to navigate, this was done by giving the photos a slight grey border and also numbering the bottom of each page.
One bigger photo has been put on every other page, I have done this to make it appear more pleasing to viewers. Some photos on here are in colour, black & white and also some surreal edited designs. This shows that I can work in more than one line of photography which if I am applying for a job to do with graphic design based photography, it shows that I can work in that area media.
This is a link to my digital portfolio below:
https://xd.adobe.com/view/6a2de380-28c8-4b70-4618-abfec2450cb1-1c1c/
Project 3 Creating Your CV:
Research of Bad/Good CV’s:
These are two examples of CV’s that are not well done, one of the main reasons that the one on the left sticks out is the photo that they have put on there of themselves. The reason you shouldn’t do this is because it gives the interviewers a chance to be discriminate.
Although this is just a little thing, putting a space between the phone numbers make it a whole less likely for the people reading your CV to mess it up if they need to get in contact with you.
This CV needs a more accurate address, this is incase they need to send you a letter or anything else.
The CV on the rights is presented poorly, It’s got some good information there but they have not put any of their personal details like name, email, phone number, etc.
The CV on the right is well laid out and is much easier to read than the last two. All of the personal information is at the top making it easy for the reader to know read about the person they will be interviewing
These are some screen grabs of how I used Adobe InDesign for my CV. I made the important headings more clear and a different colour to the information so it is easier to read. Changing the options from ‘Essentials’ to ‘Advanced’ gave me more options to edit my texts and move them about more freely.
By spacing out paragraphs and using more bullet points than big sentences, it makes it easier for the viewer to read and not loose focus or their place from where they were reading.
The page layout option let me add another page to my CV which needs to have two pages. By also doing this I it would transfer anything more I wrote on the first page onto the second.
This is my CV all finished. I have included a lot of my personal details so it is easy for them to contact me.
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