Film and Television Portfolio IADT

This is pointless! Surely somebody from the college would want to keep an eye on this kind of thing.

When I was looking at the online prospectus, not once did it give any reference to deadlines of portfolios. Even a ball park figure would be appreciated. In this thread people were throwing around late March, but who are those people?

I'll get the work done anyway, hopefully IADT will get in touch with each of us personally after the 1st of Feb

Hey there,

The portfolio deadlines coming up and i was just wondering how it should be presented?. I feel i could fit mine into an a4 or a3 folder, is there a need to have it any bigger? or how do people usually submit there work? also is it ok to have photographs etc, on DVDs swell? or is it recommended that you get them printed out? Also is it possible for the examiners to view online pages, i.e. youtube accounts or website portfolios?

Thank you

Portfolio is due tomorrow, fingers crossed!
Was going to make a big display board, but it might have to be downsized to A4 due to technical difficulties.

Luckily I have a brilliant showreel, I hope that it'll all go smoothly
Good luck to everybody tomorrow and the following days!

Just got my portfolio result yesterday, scored 600/600. Entirely mind blown because I did NOT think I'd get that!

Super motivated for the leaving cert now!

That's great to hear! Unfortunately I can't really be of much help in that regard because I'm coming up through the school system, but by the sounds of it you've got good credentials!

CormacMcG94 wrote: »

I only got 490 this year so i'm going to put another one together next year. and Apply again.

I was wondering if you could tell me about your portfolio and how you put it together.

If you could show me some of your work that would be great.
I want to see where i'm going wrong.

Thanks.

Sure thing man! Over the Summer I plan to put up some sort of page with all my stuff on it, but in terms of video everything I had in my portfolio can be found on my youtube page;

http://www.youtube.com/user/StoneworkProductions

(Except the mix song, which was done by a friend of mine). I also had a showreel with extended clips from all my videos. And basically each video had a booklet accompanying it that outlines the whole process of making each of them, scripts, story boards, shot lists, that sort of thing!

After that I had three scripts which I've written, which I can't reeeally post because I'm actually currently working on making them all into videos themselves.

I had a photography book with 17 pieces, which I tried to keep as varied as possible. I'll try and get them posted somewhere! In hindsight I can actually see quite a bit wrong with quite a few of them, but mistakes are a really valuable lesson in my experience, so I'll a 'what I did wrong' sort of post in case it's helpful to somone.

I had a small booklet just talking about any work I've done related to the course (mainly just really small photography gigs in pubs and whatnot) which pictures from that work! It actually really just consisted of shots from a series of music gigs we have here in Portarlington!

Finally I put in a couple of my sketch books which were just full of doodles and random ideas. I can't draw for ****e but I think it helped to convey my interest in doing the course!

To be honest I think the interview really helped me a lot! Be intimately familiar with EVERYTHING you put into your portfolio, be able to talk about why it's in there and what you were trying to do with it! They may not ask you about most of it, but make sure that anything that's there is there for a reason! More than anything though, just be enthusiastic! They really just want to see that you're passionate and willing to learn! Well I think that's it because it feels like that's 90% of what I said! Anywho, I hope this was coherent and helps even a small bit!

If you have any other questions fire away!

I'm planning on applying for this course this year and I'm putting together my portfolio. I was going to include the following:

1. 5 minute short film (with script, storyboards, and notes on style)
2. Short promo for a shop
3. 10 minute short film script with storyboards
4. 10-15 photographs (haven't decided on a theme yet)

Is that enough or should I add more? Also, is there a rule for what size the photos should be?

Hey everyone, not sure if this forum is still being used by anyone! Maybe this will spark it to start up again...!

I have been reading through these forums and its making me quite nervous! Everyone here seems to have gotten over 500 in their portfolios and I only got 450...

Last years points were 825 so I'd be aiming for about 375 in the Leaving Cert but even that would be a stretch to get!

I'd hope that it wouldn't go up any higher but it very well may...

Hey there.
My name's Eamonn Dillon. I'm hoping to film a short in Dundalk next month - over the course of one day, on a weekend. I'm in need of a camera man - it won't be very onerous work and for anyone who's interested I can forward you on a link with an outline of the short. It's a creative take on the refugee crisis.

Last month I was very lucky that I was able to go inside Apollo House and I made my first short in there. I'm posting a link here, please if you like it don't hesitate to get in touch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdGYNrTadMk

Yeah mine is due tomorrow for IADT.. just finishing it up now

Hey guys!
I am really interested in applying to IADT this year for the film & TV production portfolio course and I was wondering if any of you guys who applied in recent years could give me a few tips on how to present your portfolio, etc!?
What is the standard like these days for film production portfolios?!
Any general dos and donts!?
Should I be putting my short films onto a USB stick directly for it if i have to hand deliver the portfolio!?!
Any advice would be REALLY appreciated!!! Thanks so much!

Hi
Just wondering if anyone has any idea what points qqi applicants got in on last year or the year before thanks so much

leixlipgirl wrote: »

anyone know when portfolio results will be out ?

Got mine this evening.
350/600 so considering I'm both a mature student and currently studying, I just need distinctions in my modules and I assume I have a chance but it would be very very slim so...

I've worked mostly in stage and theatre so my costumes, production pitch, and scripts were all done in theatre format rather than film format (not a giant difference but clearly enough difference that it actually got brought up in my feedback) so I'll have to work on that. Had I put a bit more film-based than theatre, I may have gotten higher marks. 😕