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Students and Novice Stage Managers / Re: Creating a Brief Portfolio and Resume for College
« on: Aug 27, 2015, 08:33 pm »
Thanks everyone!
I agree that making up paperwork is not the best way to go for my portfolio. I have made some templates for documents that I know will be completed early on in the show process (contact form, rehearsal schedule, and rehearsal report sheets) that I will have filled out for the fall production before my portfolio deadline.
I will not have any interviews unless the school I am applying to has room for one. I am using my portfolio as an artistic supplement, which I will be submitting to some selective colleges in the fall. I am not applying directly into a theater program, but using my theater work as a way to add more about myself to my applications and help me stand out. My director will also be writing a letter of recommendation to submit along with the portfolio. I think that it would also be helpful to add small captions to each image of paperwork explaining why I made it that way and how I used it, so that I could show more understanding beyond what just paperwork can demonstrate.
To clean up my blocking and calling script, I want pick out the two most complex pages of each and go over my notes from the show to darken them and make them more legible. They won't expect me to have it all done digitally like the example MatthewShiner posted, will they?
Thanks again everyone!
I agree that making up paperwork is not the best way to go for my portfolio. I have made some templates for documents that I know will be completed early on in the show process (contact form, rehearsal schedule, and rehearsal report sheets) that I will have filled out for the fall production before my portfolio deadline.
I will not have any interviews unless the school I am applying to has room for one. I am using my portfolio as an artistic supplement, which I will be submitting to some selective colleges in the fall. I am not applying directly into a theater program, but using my theater work as a way to add more about myself to my applications and help me stand out. My director will also be writing a letter of recommendation to submit along with the portfolio. I think that it would also be helpful to add small captions to each image of paperwork explaining why I made it that way and how I used it, so that I could show more understanding beyond what just paperwork can demonstrate.
To clean up my blocking and calling script, I want pick out the two most complex pages of each and go over my notes from the show to darken them and make them more legible. They won't expect me to have it all done digitally like the example MatthewShiner posted, will they?
Thanks again everyone!