Mister Wilson's Video Production Class: Video Production and Animation Final: Demo Reel and ROP Print Portfolio

Students,
As part of your final you will produce a high energy demo reel that showcases your work during the semester. You will also complete your ROP print portfolio. Both of these items are due on the 18th.

Demo Reel Project:

Having a compelling demo reel is a key component in communicating your talents and digital media skills to potential employers and clients. You final project is to create a demo reel that showcases your skills. Read: Pixars tips on creating a demo reel

Choose a short and high energy piece of music to edit your demo reel to, make sure you have this ready before you begin editing
Launch Adobe Premiere and begin adding all of your rendered animation assets and video projects from the semester (work from other classes or prior semesters/independent work is allowed)
Create an intro slide plus an ending title slide with your name and email address
Edit your slides, images, animations and videos to your music, make sure to edit on the beat of your music track to keep it compelling
Demo reel music and action should crescendo towards the end
Keep the demo reel down to 1 minute or 1:30 approximately
Include tails and 2-pop
Turn in via NAS or SNET in full HD H.264 with 10Mbps Data Rate

ROP Print Portfolio Project:

Having a polished and professional looking portfolio is key to your success in finding work after High School and moving on to developing a career. Download the ROP Portfolio Handbook to use as a guide for creating your own portfolio, a requirement in all ROP classes.

Portfolio's are due by the end of the semester and must be ready for presentation, evaluation and critique. You will complete a digital version as a PDF file for evaluation. Class winner will be able to print and prepare their portfolio for inclusion in the Portfolio Showcase competition. This portfolio is part of your final grade.

Remember that the best portfolio in class will be sent to the portfolio design competition that ROP has at the end of each school year, your portfolio will compete against other graphic design classes across the county, and there are prizes!

A judge evaluates print portfolio's from past entrants...

Portfolio Development Assignment:

Your portfolio must be created in Indesign and the final file must be a multi-page PDF document
Use the Pages palette to create multiple pages for your portfolio with Indesign
Your portfolio cover, table of contents and all materials should look clean and consistent. Use consistent design style across all aspects of your portfolio, this includes color, typography, layout and style

Your Portfolio must contain in this order: See portfolio handbook for more details...

Cover page with your name, class title, year. Spend some time on this, it should show good design skill and be reflective of your personality
Table of contents
Letter of Introduction
Resume
Handwritten Job Application
List of References
Letter of Recommendation - cannot be from your ROP teacher or a family member
3 or more work samples with written explanation about the work, why is it important to your career choice? What did the project entail, what were the challenges and difficulties? Give us details.

How Your Portfolio Is Evaluated:

Contains required content and format
Well organized
Free of grammer problems
ROP related work samples
Shows creativity
Nice appearance
Shows skill development
Appropriate for use in job search
Professional appearance
Nice presentation

A print portfolio can take many forms, it can be professionally bound, stitched by hand or bound with a spiral ring... how will you create your portfolio, what will make it stand out above the rest?

Tips For Winning The Portfolio Competition:

In the last few years the portfolio competition has gotten fierce, especially for the graphic design category. Other schools have printing facilities that we don't, so you must use your creativity, ingenuity and eye for design to stand above the rest. Consider purchasing a large format portfolio binder and printing work samples at 11X17", or consider making a hand-bound book format to showcase your work. The limits are only contained by your creativity!