Traditional portfolios that you can carry around with you. (Port=to move about, Folio=pages, or a book of pages. Portfolio=a book of pages you can carry about). Most commonly, something like this for bringing to an interview:

Slideshow Portfolios are very old school as well, (and used to be the very expensive old way to mail out duplicate copies of the above format, on actual film slides) but they have been significantly modernized by PowerPoint, (and Google Slides) and are now one of the cheapest and easiest formats to create and share (Links to an external site.). They also can form a basis for making the next two types of portfolio. PowerPoint is included in the Microsoft Office software that you as a DVC student can download freely to your own computer, and Google Slides is currently free for personal use.

PDF Portfolios sometimes are simply scans of a Traditional Portfolio like the first one above, or may include more extensive text for explanation, as these are usually sent to a remote interview where it will be judged before one is chosen for an interview. These can usually be made in PowerPoint as a PPt slideshow first, (or Google Slides ) or instead made in Microsoft Word like a paper before saving as a PDF. These also can be inserted into online book/magazine sharing sites like Issuu to be viewed by the public without having to build a a full web portfolio.

Video Portfolios are where you can show your work like a TV commercial or virtual interview by showing your work in the order you want with voice over description or music. You can again begin with a basic a PowerPoint slide show, then narrate or add music, only this time instead of saving as a PDF, save it as a mp4 file. If having your portfolio have live action or animation is especially appropriate for your art, this format may be the best one to allow you to do so. For example, musicians & other performers usually do this. So do designers and makers who have work that moves, like kinetic sculpture, robotics, character design, animation/motion graphics.

Web Based Portfolios cover a large swath of types, from basic web pages, blogs, galleries and a plethora of other formats (Links to an external site.). If you have a professor at DVC who tells you you need to have a portfolio, you can probably check out theirs online. Here are just a few:

• David Foulds - Film & Video (Links to an external site.)

• Takemi Tsuruta -Contemporary Ceramic Art (Links to an external site.)

• Hopi Breton - Sculpture (Links to an external site.)

• Carrie Mullen - Scenic and Lighting Design (Links to an external site.)

• Daniel Abbott - Art and Architecture (Links to an external site.)

• Tara Maginnis - Costume Design (Links to an external site.)

• Jeffrey Smith - Industrial Design & Education (Links to an external site.)

A web based portfolio can also showcase some of the other types (PDF, Video) listed above within it, and allows for multiple portfolios and areas of your work to be gathered together and be routinely added to.