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Portfolio Brief. HELP & ADVICE
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I'm thinking of applying to the core year in NCAD for next september, maybe something in DIT but I haven't scoped out their courses yet,
I don't want to apply to Dun Laoighre or anywhere else in the country as I have to live at home and from where I live IADT is a bit of a schlog away. (would like to get a part time job maybe, so long commutes aren't feasible)
Anyways, I had the best intentions of starting the portfolio brief back in fifth year but I am now in sixth and I haven't done a scrap of the brief, my old art teacher was a bit vague with almost everything you asked him and I don't really have the confidence to just push myself off. So, now I've decided to go hell for leather until I have a reasonably chockablock portfolio that I would be happy sending off, I just have a few questions about it - since yous all seem to be really helpful here
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Does it matter about presentation - of course THAT matters!, but a messy sheet?, a few crumpled pages?, a smelly sheet covered in egg shells? , that sort of thing?, does it need to be pristine?
Do your ideas/pieces need to be crammed into your visual notebook?, ie would they be looking for loads of little thumbnail doodles that correlate to your pieces or are they looking for sketches/something that's very nearly there to the final product?
Do they appreciate extras? like say customising your notebook and showing off your versatility, or writing comments to show your ultimate understanding and verifying your ideas, that sort of thing?
What way do you organise the portfolio itself?, do you have one section for the brief and then one for misc work from over the years?
I'm sure these are really stupid questions but this whole portfolio thing really does stir up a lot of stress!0 -
Hey, I'm mad busy right now but I will pop up some info here on the portfolio 2mo....I'll help ya as best i can, stay posted on this forum it helped me loads on my journey to NCADI'm thinking of applying to the core year in NCAD for next september, maybe something in DIT but I haven't scoped out their courses yet,
I don't want to apply to Dun Laoighre or anywhere else in the country as I have to live at home and from where I live IADT is a bit of a schlog away. (would like to get a part time job maybe, so long commutes aren't feasible)
Anyways, I had the best intentions of starting the portfolio brief back in fifth year but I am now in sixth and I haven't done a scrap of the brief, my old art teacher was a bit vague with almost everything you asked him and I don't really have the confidence to just push myself off. So, now I've decided to go hell for leather until I have a reasonably chockablock portfolio that I would be happy sending off, I just have a few questions about it - since yous all seem to be really helpful here.
Does it matter about presentation - of course THAT matters!, but a messy sheet?, a few crumpled pages?, a smelly sheet covered in egg shells? , that sort of thing?, does it need to be pristine?
Do your ideas/pieces need to be crammed into your visual notebook?, ie would they be looking for loads of little thumbnail doodles that correlate to your pieces or are they looking for sketches/something that's very nearly there to the final product?
Do they appreciate extras? like say customising your notebook and showing off your versatility, or writing comments to show your ultimate understanding and verifying your ideas, that sort of thing?
What way do you organise the portfolio itself?, do you have one section for the brief and then one for misc work from over the years?
I'm sure these are really stupid questions but this whole portfolio thing really does stir up a lot of stress!0 -
Hi Echter! I went to Ballyfermot last year to do a portfolio course, and I'm going to NCAD this year. Yay
Here's my 2 cents, everyone will have their own take on it, so have a read and see if it makes sense to you. And good luck!Does it matter about presentation - of course THAT matters!, but a messy sheet?, a few crumpled pages?, a smelly sheet covered in egg shells? , that sort of thing?, does it need to be pristine?
It doesn't need to be pristine, the finished work should be presented as you would expect to see any finished work, to the highest possible standard. Thats a bit subjective! The highest standard according to yourself. The preparitory work can be anything at all! Smelly, crumpled sheets etc, cause you can sit down and work for 3 hours at a neat notebook, but inspiration might come on the bus and all you have is a bus ticket and biro! But, I think you need both, and if you do have a lot of scrappy stuff, you need to think about how you can display it coherantly. i.e It has to make sense to the person viewing it. You won't be there to explain how you got from the bus ticket drawing to the finished piece, it has to basically explain itself. That said, you must bear in mind that they don't like notebooks stuffed with stuff, they see it as *filler*. (I've heard this from a couple of different NCAD teachers, one I was doing a nightclass with, and one at the open day last year)Do your ideas/pieces need to be crammed into your visual notebook?, ie would they be looking for loads of little thumbnail doodles that correlate to your pieces or are they looking for sketches/something that's very nearly there to the final product?
Your visual notebook is for you, you use it to come up with ideas, some good, some bad, in whatever way or style that suits you. It should go from initial doodlings, to experiments with paint, tone, style or types of material, demonstrations of different experiments with different materials... Like I said, you basically are showing them your artistic process. If you don't work like this - from ideas to fleshing ideas out to experiments to final pieces, you'll need to learn how. It used to confuse me, coz I used to just do whatever it was was in my head, and I didn't really have any preparitory ideas. But I did, they were in my head, I just wasn't putting them to paper. It really helps!Do they appreciate extras? like say customising your notebook and showing off your versatility, or writing comments to show your ultimate understanding and verifying your ideas, that sort of thing?
Yeah, why not? It can't hurt to customise you notebook. I did with mine a little. Painted a picture in blue and called it 'The Blue Notebook' in all my written notes. So yeah, I had written notes, exactly to show my understanding and verifying my ideas, and because the wording of the brief was pretty vague, I had pages of notes trying to figure out what it all meant. They do say in the notes to use as little written words as possible in your visual notebook, but it was all the same to me and I need to write to work!What way do you organise the portfolio itself?, do you have one section for the brief and then one for misc work from over the years?
You basically don't have a section of misc work from over the years. If they wanted to see it they'd ask for it. As far as I know, from what I've heard from teachers etc, it will work against you to have old work that doesn't relate to the brief included. If you can find some way to relate it then grand.
If you show your portfolio to other colleges (IADT, DIT, maybe?), you put together as much of everything you've been doing as possible, not just the NCAD stuff. I went to Cork as well, where you get to show them your portfolio yourself. I'm nearly 100% sure that all the art colleges ask that the work in your portfolio be recent, from the last 2 years at most. You want to put your best foot forward, your newest and most relevent work is what's important.
The last thing is the overall presentation, I'm shiiiit at presentation, i didn't really know anything about it for the NCAD portfolio, coz it's the first one! I divided it by folding a piece of white paper over each section and writing what it was... like 'Objects in different locations' Ha! It looked so crappy, but I suppose the content was ok enought to pass.
For another viewing of portfolio, I bought plastic pockets (which were reallly expensive!) and displayed everything in them. It did look way better, and it was much easier to flip through... But way expensive and I wasn't even showing the entire NCAD portfolio.
Anyway, I think the most important thing is to try hard, work hard and make sure you show every step of your process in whatever way makes sense to you. And stick to the brief as tightly as possible, but if you get confused or don't understand something, just do it as best you can. Don't get bogged down in trying to figure out the exact meaning of a question if it really confuses you. Just keep working and it'll make sense.
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Sec A exercise 1
Mind map -
A1 sheet for each Habitats,Food,Mech,Memories.
Each sheet should have as many ideas as you can come up with, dont fuss over how good everything looks. Everything is open here, past present & future. Film/books/art/man made/organic.
Sec A exercise 2(a)
Observational Studies
Choose one item from each mind map.
A1 sheet with about 4+ studies of the item you have picked, ie: charcoal, pencil, painting, pastel, collage.
4 sheets req intotal.
Sec A exercise 2(b)
Choose two items from any mind map.
Best items here to use are Mech+food (IMO), that can be taken apart/cut/mashed/broken.
Visually Record
Use ANY media you can think of mix of charcoal + painting, pastel + collage. video+paint.
IE: Place the items in a glass jar of water(colour water?) will some float ? some sink ? Draw it/paint it/ photo it/collage it
IE: in a plastic bag etc
2 worksheets - Showing differant ways in which you have placed each or both items
Sec A exercise 2(C)
Observational Studies
Choose one item from a mind map.
Lets say you picked a fruit, now smash it up, cook it, let it go off, dry it out etc. Hard light/soft light etc
Using UNTYPICAL/ALTERNATIVE media.
1 sheet for each condition you have picked.
3 sheets in total.
Sec A exercise 2(a,b+c) = 13 sheets(A1) intotal.
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Sec B
3 A1 sheets
Come up with your own ideas DO NOT FOLLOW the examples if at all possible.
Here they ask you to make a "connection" with any two items from your mind map. The word worksheet is used here again so think of as many ideas as you can and use as many differant media you can. Remember leave every idea you use on the sheet.
Food <---> Mech
Example : Food=cheese + Mech=Hammer,
2 sheets req per connection, so thats :
1 sheet for Food <---> Mech
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1 sheet for Mech <---> Food.
Total sheets 6
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Sec C
Pick any 2 and go totaly mad ! From what we were told, this is aimed at outdoor stuff, so most of us have based our choosen two to happen/taken place outside.
2 sheets per task
Total 4 sheets.
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23 sheets in total. Best of luck !
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Observational Studies = tone/shape/texture/light v's dark.
Visually Record = This implies mixed media film/photos/collage/3d
Sheet: where I used the word sheet I mean A1 sheet.
This is my own take on the brief, from my own notes/ guides from the class teacher. I am doing a portfolio prep class. I hope it is of some help to someone.;)0 -
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I'm currently putting together a portfolio for Visual Communication in DIT, however most of what I do is digitally based (would print at A3). So far I have a college newspaper which I'm art director of, a few posters and a couple of observational drawings (they're only on A4 though
). Would photography stand on it's own or would it need to be incorporated into a larger piece like a poster?
I'm just worried that it'll end up too concentrated on newspapers, magazines and posters, and that there won't be enough diversity or traditional media. Will this work against me do you think?0 -
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you seem like you're on the right track
My interview for cork is soon too.
OMG so happy got invited to an interview based on my mini portfolio to Edinburgh. Read this morning on their website that applications are up 186% i think, freaked out all day then what do you know got a email waiting for me this evening! chuffed!!!!0 -
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I was at a lecture at NCAD last year and the only thing they really said in reference to video was that many of the disks they received last year were in the wrong format. 
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