Could you critique my laptop?
Over the past few months, I’ve been showing my portfolio around at 1 formal interview, and about 12 “critique my book” meetings. This is not exactly a barrage of activity. Yet my print portfolio looks like it’s been through a war. Folds, fingerprints, and unidentifiable stains on ads. Beat-up foamcore. And after a plane trip, it looks like TSA took a marker to a couple of my ads.
Many smart people have said that you should show ads on the medium they were produced. So, radio should go on a CD, TV should be on a DVD, interactive accessible online or on a CD, and print displayed on foamcore.
But is another solution to carry a laptop computer with you, and show PDF’s? This would be an easy way to display your multimedia samples in an interview, as well.
At this time, I don’t even own a laptop. And I don’t know how interviewers would feel about it. But I’m curious if this would work.
What do you all think?
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True,
In my experience, people don’t want to mess with your laptop to see your work. I have a portfolio with protective pages (prints slide right in) that protects my work with no problem.
I think part of it depends how you’re approaching them as well. If you have a website, make your radio, broadcast, and web work accessible there. If you’re seeing them in person, create a cd/dvd leave-behind with that work on it that they can throw in their computer at their convenience.
Or, better yet, create a website that you can then direct them to. It would be as simple as a single page with a few prints and the web address on the front, and your resume and contact info on the back. Would be a heck of a lot cheaper than a mini-book.