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Comparisons of a physical to a digital portfolio.

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There are many reasons why someone may choose to create a physical portfolio or a digital one as that there advantages and disadvantages to each a few examples of these would be the cost of having a physical portfolio. From my table it can be seen that there is a lot of different equipment required in creating a physical media profile if it is to look professional. One example of this would be how I would have to print out all of the pages of my magazine (Which is one of the pieces of media  I plan to use in my profile) which would be both time consuming and costly as that to get a piece of work like this printed in a way that it suitable for it to be shown to a client (On glossy paper) I would either have to invest in a printer, paper and Ink for the task or order copies from a printing company. It would be much easier to show my journalism work as that I would only have to print that on regular paper but my trailer would again be problematic as that I would have to invest in either a blank DVD disk which I can then upload the film to or a USB drive or Hard drive with enough memory to support the file which would be in a High definition MP4 format. This seems to be a long way around presenting the work to a potentioal interviewer as that I could just upload all of these pieces to the internet (the Magazine pages as high quality JPEGs, the Journalism documents as PDFs and the trailer as an MP4) perhaps using my own website as have some of the examples form my LO1 research have. As well as this there is also the cost of a folder to keep all of this work inside of and the potential of losing a physical portfolio.
On the other hand there are advantages to having a physical portfolio especially when it comes to having paper copies of work such as the magazine pages and journalism work. This is simply because it may give a more professional appearance if brought into an interview due to the high quality of the printed pages. As  well as this a website can be challenging for some as that not everybody is a digital native and may struggle to use the internet to find my work.

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Piece one: Forge Magazine:

I created this product using a multitude of different pieces of software such as Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and light room. This software was very useful in creating the magazine as that it is layer based editing software that is used professionally to create industry standard magazine designs. however, design software is not ideal for uploading to the internet as that it is so large and requires the user to have the software installed on their device which most people will not. For this reason I repurposed the magazine pages by exporting them all as the highest quality of JPEG file (which while lossey is very high definition) I could access which allowed it to be of a smaller size and therefore unloadable and viewable by anyone who wanted to see it. The best quality file type I could have used for the pages of the magazines would have been TIFF (Tagged image file format) as that it is lossless. This however means that it takes up far more space of a computer and would not be supported by Blogger or Wix I used to create my profile.

Piece two: Journalism work.

Repurposing a word document is a very easy decision to make. As that word file cannot be uploaded to the internet my only real option was to export the documents as PDF files whixh mean that my writing stays the same and keeps its formatting and it is read only meaning that nobody visiting my website could change my work or delete it.

Piece three: The White Room Trailer:

Repurposing this work for upload was difficult due to the fact that there were several options open to me. TO start with the most simple way to keep a hold of the final trailer which I had created was in exporting it from premiere where it was created as an MP4 then uploading it t YouTube as an MP4 file and then linking the video to my website so that a user can easily view the video in a way that will be familiar to them as that YouTube is an extremely popular and accessible platform. As well as this Wix contained the option of simply uploading the video as an MP4 straight onto the webpage which was my initial plan but could not be achieved due to the upload size cap on the website which was smaller than the size of the file which I had created. There are very few lossless video formats which would be available to me for use and even if they were it would be impossible for me to feature them on my website.






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Each of the pieces of work I have created that will be used in this portfolio have several issues linked to them. Below I have discussed these issues (legal and ethical) and how I have overcome them so that there is no risk for my portfolio going against any requirements.

1) Magazine pages.

There are many different issues that I encountered when creating this magazine. The first is the use of my model "Abbigail Holland" who was on several of the pages. As to avoid any legal trouble I made sure that I took all of the pictures for these pages myself and did not use any that anyone else has created as that they may then have the right to sue me for violating the Copyright Designs and Patents act which would give them permission over their photos. As well as making sure that no other media companies threatened legal action I ensured the Holland could not sue me for her portrayal in my magazine by having her sign a release and consent form, a legally binding document which handed complete authority of the pictures and interview taken with her to me in order to create the magazine. I have inserted this document below:

In the creation of a magazine it is not only legal issues that need to be catered for however. I took great care to avoid the use of any offensive (Racist, sexist, etc.) messages, terms or symbols in the creation of my magazine as to make sure that nobody would feel that they were being targeted in a negative way by Forge magazine.


2) Journalism work.

Journalism is a vastly regulated sector of media for good reason, a misrepresentation of a person or organization can potentially have catastrophic consequences. It is for this reason that I had to make sure that when I was writing my piece I made absolutely no implication that just because there was no memorial event planned as of yet that there was some malicious intent behind that. This is because doing this could come under Libel which could have landed me in serious legal trouble. As well as this I had to ensure that my article did not contain any content that could be seen as offensive of discriminatory to any group in society or political ideology. I feel like I have handled these requirements well as well as making sure that all of the work I have created myself and the sources that I have quoted are referenced in a  way that is professional and in line with the industry.


3) "The White Room" Trailer.

when creating the trailer for the film the white room there were many challenges both legal and ethical which we had to overcome. Firstly we needed to make sure that it would be legal for us to circulate the names and likenesses of the people who appear in the film as that we planned to disrobute the trailer online once it was completed. THis meant again making all of the major characters who starred in the trailer sign a release and consent form in order to give up any legal control they have over the use of their talent for "The White Room" project. THese are featured below:

As can be seen here all of these forms are signed meaning that we had the right to use the scenes with our four major actors in them. The legality of our product was still in jeopardy however as that we wanted to use a ticking sound effect to pace the trailer. This meant that we had to find a website which would contain such a sound, have it available for download a well as being completely royalty free. We found this site in the form of www.Freesound.co.uk which features thousands of noises, sounds and pieces of music completely royalty free. This meant that we could download our noises from this website and therefore use it for free in the trailer that we were producing.

Finally it was very important to us to make sure that we created a piece that did not convey any harmful or discriminatory attitudes toward any group of people in society. this meant making sure that the casting processes were kept open to people of all backgrounds in order to ensure that it was equal. In ethical issues for creating a trailer we also had to ensure that the film itself in its narrative and messages did not convey any stereotypes of messages of intolerance as that this was never our intention.