For my portfolio project, I decided to use wix.com as my platform because it seems much more customizable than weebly.com. It offers many more templets and more freedom to move specific things around on the website. A possible problem with this website is you can’t change the template after you publish the site, but you can do this with weebly. I will have to be extra careful to make sure the theme is really the one I think best reflects my project before I publish it, or I will have to risk starting the project over again.
My first idea for the project was to create a website showcasing the videos I have made. These would range to ones I have created for school, like the advocacy project, to ones that I have made of my vacations. I love to edit videos but I currently have them all just sitting on hard drives. I think the portfolio project would be a good way for me to showcase what I’ve done. My second idea was similar to the videos, but instead it would be a website showcasing my photos from all of my vacations
These ideas came from the videos explaining the project when it was mentioned that the audience could be your grandmother. My grandparents live in England and they love to see all the things from are travels and other things we make. I thought this would be a good way to show them. However, I think I would try to make my primary audience possible employers so I could showcase my video editing skills.
I think this is a great idea; your videos are always of the utmost quality, and I’d love to see the variety of videos you’ve made. Maybe you could combined both the photo idea and the video idea, then you could have a tab titled “Global Experience” or something of the sort. You could also possibly have a “Contact Me” tab so employees could reach out to you for advertising work with your videos.
I love your idea for your platform! This would be such a unique platform to showcase them other than something like YouTube. I love how this is for your grandparents. I know my grandparents always asked about my trips and having something easy for them to access would be great! Another tab you could use is a “Future Places” and talk about places you want to travel to.
This is a really cool idea! Video production sounds like something you really like to do and this would be a great way to showcase the videos you’ve taken so far and display your passion! I think you could definitely combine the two ideas and have separate tabs, maybe one for school videos, one for vacation photos, and one for any media that doesn’t fit into those categories. Also, if you’re considering employers as an audience, I would agree that maybe having your contact information would be a good way to draw them in and/or listing some of your experience in a short resume format.
That would be a great idea!! This would be a great way to really sit down and finally get to edit these videos!
I definitely agree with the other comments about having your contact information. Also, I would have an about me section of your website so that employers know you are interested in work like this.