How to Make a Set Design Portfolio
If you are a set designer, then it is really important for you to make a professional set design portfolio, in order to attract potential employers. The employers determine the commitment level of set designers by the quality of their portfolios, as the set design portfolios represent the amount of work and time designers have spent on their projects. So, you should be very careful, and precise, while making your set design portfolio, or else, it will become really difficult for you to get good offers from different employers in your industry.
Instructions
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When choosing the work for your portfolio, you should make sure that you do not only include your best work in it. Rather, you must try to show some variance, in a bid to show your creativity in different scenarios. It will give your portfolio a versatile look.
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You should also choose the order of your work very carefully, and logically. All the work should be in a proper sequence. For instance, you can start with displaying your realistic designs at the start of the portfolio. Thereafter, you can add historical designs, followed by musical and dance. You cannot add realistic designs at the start, as well as at the end of the portfolio, as it will give out your unprofessional approach towards making portfolio.
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Always include all the images from a specific show on one page, or on two pages that open together. Never extend a show to more than two pages. For that purpose, you can select the best shots from the show and use your image editing skills to display all of them on a single or maximum two pages.
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When selecting photos to add to your portfolio, you should make sure that you include photos of only completed works. The photographs should be large in size, and of good quality. Also, you should try to add pictures with actors in them, in order to give the set a practical view in your images.
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You should always try to capture the photos in natural light, in order to show the actual colours used in the set. You can add multiple photos of a set by adding capturing different scenes in the show.
