The finished project of my portfolio
wasn’t as I intended at the beginning of production, as I thought that to
address that I have an interest in photography I could use a template of
multiple cameras, but it wasn’t as aesthetically pleasing and professional as I
had anticipated. However, I liked the idea of using brushes and I experimented with
different brushes, and didn’t want my pages to be too busy from the background,
which I found from my first attempt to design my templates. I thought that the
original design was too busy making the background too distracting, so I only
included two brush strokes in the corner to keep my theme going throughout the
portfolio, but this meant that I could use more and be more creative with the
brushes on the front page. I also had an idea of placing a border around my
images on my photography page, to show that I love all types of photography and
not just digital, however making the images look like a polaroid image, made
the images smaller and were harder to see as well as making the pages look
unprofessional. I similarly found that I included too much related with
photography, which made the overall portfolio boring as everything was related
to photography and didn’t allow me to show that I have other creative aspects.
I also gained many of my ideas from the app Pinterest by
looking at other people’s portfolios and creative CV’s as well as colour
schemes and types of typography for certain designs.
In unit 19 I was to create a portfolio
that includes and demonstrates my work from college, as well as projects
outside of college, in order to present my work in a professional way during
interviews for universities and jobs. With this being the aim of unit 19 I
think that my overall portfolio, suits the purpose of being a professional way
of expressing that I am a creative person and I have presented this through the
use of using paint brushes on the pages of my portfolio. My portfolio is also
fit for purpose as I have included my best work in the portfolio and have
described what entailed and the outcomes I had to achieve in that unit, which
shows the person viewing my portfolio in closer detail what I was asked then
shows the outcome I achieved, meaning that the university or employer can see
what I am capable of and the work I can offer to them.
To make my portfolio
more professional I have included a navigation page so that it is easier for
people to view, making it more professional and less time consuming, as if the
interviewer wanted to view a specific thing they wouldn’t have to look through
the whole portfolio, they can look at the contents page and quickly find the
page they wish to look, making it more efficient and professional during the
interview. The composition of my pages are all balanced out by equal amount of
text and images, creating optical balance, and to keep consistency throughout
my whole portfolio, I kept the title in the same place, the top left hand
corner, as this is the way we view pages, left to right, so it’s the first bit
of information they see, making them aware of what page they’re on without
viewing the contents.
When
selecting the colours to use within my portfolio I took what colours meant in
different cultures and religions into order, for example I used the colour
purple as it means royalty in christianity
and in the western culture and purification in judaism. It also signifys
wealth in far and middle eastern culture. I have took these aspects into
consideration so that when people are looking through my portfolio, I have used
colours in order to prevent offending or upsetting someone of a certain
religion or culture. Besides using the colour purple I have used the colour
blue as in in buddhism the colour blue means kindness and in islam it implies
protection.
The typography I have used are a contrast of a sans
serif bold font then a serif italic font, such as Arial
Narrow and Bell MT Italic. I used these fonts to make it clear which part of text
was more important and it also made the pages look more proffesional as it
wasn’t just one form of font, and really made a creatie contrast on the pages.
Throughout
the production of unit 19 I used the software of photoshop to be able to be as
creative as I wanted and use aspects and tools such as brushes, as well as a
graphics tablet to create my sketches for a certain page.Whilst using photoshop
to crate documents, I had to use different dpi for the pages as i used a 300
dpi for the printed pages of my portfolio, and 72 dpi in order to place my
pages on the internet and for them to load and be clear and good quality. I
have also learnt how to use the software dreamweaver to convert all my pages
from prints to digital pages, in order for people to view my portfolio online
if they want to view it in more detail or just simply view it again for more
detail.
During
production I found that I managed my time well as I had all my work completed
by the deadlines, as I will be able to take it into university interviews. I
found that having a production schedule has helped me to complete tasks
individually and keep on top of the workflow easily and stick to mulitple
deadlines I set myself in order to have the project completed by the overall
deadline.
Even
though I have worked individually throughout the production for unit 19, I have
used peer feedback and advice to help aid the production as well as the desgin
of my portfolio and this also gave me an inside into what people thought of my
portfolio.
