Mister Wilson's Digital Photography Class: Portfolio Development

Hello Students,

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 1 week from the end of the Semester and must be ready for presentation, evaluation and critique (make it perfect!). That timeline is no reason to slack on this project. You should put great time and care into creating the professional side of your portfolio and then you will be ready to add your creative projects as the semester progresses. 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. Everyone can print a copy to keep and report covers will be provided if possible.

Part A: Portfolio Cover Design Assignment:

Design an eye catching cover design for you your portfolio.
Include your name, and some title for the cover such as "portfolio" or "CTE Career Tech Portfolio". Optional: include the school/year, etc....
Design your cover for standard letter size 8.5X11 inch paper.
When you are done post your portfolio cover design to your blog.

Use an iterative design process to find the best color/type solutions for your design...

Part B: Portfolio Development Long Term 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, ask for help or research tutorials for InDesign to accomplish any task.
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
Final Portfolio is Due 1 week before end of Semester.

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
Shows good design and wise choice of color palettes
Shows consistency across all pages
Reflects your style, personality and interests

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?