Portfolio
Portfolios are used to show off your work and get it seen by people in business. It is a neat folder of all your work in one place which is easily viewable by the audience. I am going to look at three online portfolios and say what i think the strengths and weaknesses are and then choose a finally one that suits the type of portfolio for my work.
http://dougyuan.crevado.com
This is the first portfolio i looked at from a man called Doug Yaun, his portfolio is up on a site called Crevado. His front page of his portfolio is all his videos including a showreel which is free to click on to watch. I think this was a good idea to put all the videos on the first page so as soon as someone gets on the site all his work is there right in front of them. Once you click on the video it will load up on the same page in fullscreen and is ready for you to watch, this is a extremely simple and fast way for people to watch his work without taking them to another website. The colour of the background is grey with the only light colours are from the thumbnails from the videos. I think personally this is a bad choice of colour for the background as it dosnt make anything stand out on the page and it looks a bit dull. On the top right there are different sections you can click on to take you to different parts of his portfolio, including, the about page and his CV. It is very simple and the text of the words are in white which stands out against the grey, but the text is very small and difficult to read if your not sitting right near the screen. This is one of the weaknesses of his portfolio. If the text was a little better this would be a great advantage so people can clearly so what bits of information they can look at on the portfolio.
http://www.bigpebbles.co.uk/portfolio/film_portfolio.php#
The next portfolio i looked at is big pebbles production. The first thing that stands out on the page is the companies name at the top of the screen. It is in front of a white background with black and blue font. This really makes the title stand and the shadow effect that is on the text makes it 3D getting the name attention as soon as you go onto the website. The website is extremely easy to navigate around with tabs to click on just under the title. Again these are in black font, it looks a bit basic but this isn't necessarily a bad thing as it makes it very easy on the eye to read and people know what exactly is featured on the website and where to find certain information. When i first looked through the list of videos on the website i wasn't entirely sure what sort of videos they actually make.This is a bad side to the website as they haven't clearly labels and explained what to of company they are. When you go onto the page where their videos are located, it is quick and easy to watch any video on the website. You click on the title of the video and it loads up and vimeo video on the side. once again it dosnt take you to a different website and the videos are lade out very clearly with a long synopsis explaning what each of the videos are about.
http://www.brendanbarnes.com
The last portfolio i looked at is for a Cinematographer called Brendan Barens. The first thing i notice about his portfolio website is that it is very dull looking. There is much colour contrast compared to the other websites i have looked at.
If i had to pick a website based on the ones i have looked at to put my own portfolio on. I would choose the first one on Crevado. I would choose this one as it is the one i personally think is the most professional looking and is well laid out. I like the way the videos are layed out on the page and the portfolio looks very organised on the website. The website is very simple to navigate around so it won't confused the audience when trying to find different parts of the portfolio. Also its quick and easy to watch a video once you have clicked on it and it doesn't take you to a different site.
I will be posting nearly all my work on the website so it shows how i have progressed in my skills and gives a good insight to my work. I think the first video that will be listed is my showreel, i chose to put this first as i think this is the main video people are interested in watching, this shows a few clips from all my projects i have worked on and the best bits of my filming. From then i will post eac video in its entirety from the clips from the showreel. This will include my 10 minuite single camera dram, my music video, corporate video and advert. I think my including a variety of different projects will show that i can work to any brief including doing my own pre production, production and post production for one of my own films to working with a live client on the corporate video and making exactly what they want for their company. I will lay the videos out like the way they did on crevado. With 3 boxes in a row going down with a square box thumbnail. I think this looked really smart and professional and shows that i want my work to look the best it can.
http://padlet.com/wall/5qx835muln0h
This is a link to my padlet wall with all my audience research on.
http://www.bigpebbles.co.uk/portfolio/film_portfolio.php#
The next portfolio i looked at is big pebbles production. The first thing that stands out on the page is the companies name at the top of the screen. It is in front of a white background with black and blue font. This really makes the title stand and the shadow effect that is on the text makes it 3D getting the name attention as soon as you go onto the website. The website is extremely easy to navigate around with tabs to click on just under the title. Again these are in black font, it looks a bit basic but this isn't necessarily a bad thing as it makes it very easy on the eye to read and people know what exactly is featured on the website and where to find certain information. When i first looked through the list of videos on the website i wasn't entirely sure what sort of videos they actually make.This is a bad side to the website as they haven't clearly labels and explained what to of company they are. When you go onto the page where their videos are located, it is quick and easy to watch any video on the website. You click on the title of the video and it loads up and vimeo video on the side. once again it dosnt take you to a different website and the videos are lade out very clearly with a long synopsis explaning what each of the videos are about.
http://www.brendanbarnes.com
The last portfolio i looked at is for a Cinematographer called Brendan Barens. The first thing i notice about his portfolio website is that it is very dull looking. There is much colour contrast compared to the other websites i have looked at.
If i had to pick a website based on the ones i have looked at to put my own portfolio on. I would choose the first one on Crevado. I would choose this one as it is the one i personally think is the most professional looking and is well laid out. I like the way the videos are layed out on the page and the portfolio looks very organised on the website. The website is very simple to navigate around so it won't confused the audience when trying to find different parts of the portfolio. Also its quick and easy to watch a video once you have clicked on it and it doesn't take you to a different site.
I will be posting nearly all my work on the website so it shows how i have progressed in my skills and gives a good insight to my work. I think the first video that will be listed is my showreel, i chose to put this first as i think this is the main video people are interested in watching, this shows a few clips from all my projects i have worked on and the best bits of my filming. From then i will post eac video in its entirety from the clips from the showreel. This will include my 10 minuite single camera dram, my music video, corporate video and advert. I think my including a variety of different projects will show that i can work to any brief including doing my own pre production, production and post production for one of my own films to working with a live client on the corporate video and making exactly what they want for their company. I will lay the videos out like the way they did on crevado. With 3 boxes in a row going down with a square box thumbnail. I think this looked really smart and professional and shows that i want my work to look the best it can.
http://padlet.com/wall/5qx835muln0h
This is a link to my padlet wall with all my audience research on.
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