portfolio?

anyone have any suggestions on building a lighting design portfolio for college auditions?

 

This a big thing in all my design classes, after big project there is a talk back/interview where the prof. will ask you questions. Most of the time they are very detailed and seem like they are trying to belittle you when infact they want to make sure your reasoning is sound. Want to light the Dairy of Ann Frank in only green and purple fine but you better have a **** good reason for it.

 

also make sure you have a variety of pictures, in my portfolio I got a lot of comments from reviewers that they liked the range. Also a decently created plot made in cad or vector works makes things look better.

 

all i have are printed pictures from shows and my hand drawn plots and my channel lists i make in excel. should i include some of my photography?

 

It's not for college, but I save everything I do in a file. Every 2 - 3 months I go back and pick out the 4 - 5 best projects I've worked on (in terms of the materials I have, not how the event went) and put those into a binder I show clients. I also have a visualizer of some past events, with a cuelist set up, then I have a video of that same event showing how the visualizer and the event actually looked together.

With digital video cameras, editing software, and dvd burners so cheap, it's economical to put together your own reel. Tape the shows, copy that to your computer, edit it with some cheap/free software, burn it to dvd. Tedious, but a necessary evil any more.