In this lesson we discussed promotional packs and business cards briefly. Our tutor also mentioned about having an Artist's statement and he talked about portfolios briefly, as he had already spoke about portfolios the previous week, which I had missed however at the end of the talk, during a break he showed his own portfolio to the people who had missed out from before. He spoke about the different ways in which an individual can show and display their work either through prints or digitally. To display and present work as well as prints for hand in, he mentioned we could create a book to show our work and we could create one for and/ or as part of our portfolio. Through the talk Cv's were also mentioned as these are parts of the requirements of the brief that we have to hand in. during a presentation he showed us the various types of Cv's that are available to use, for example, a more skills based one vs an artists' Cv. Things to include on our Cv were adding on transferable skills that we have and skills and techniques we've learned whilst being here, things such as Capure One. He spoke about it being best to keep a record of our work and how we are going about creating it, e.g. being in the studio and showing this in our blogs, journals and or websites that we created. He also said to write about our website, why we chose to use a particular font and style of template. Writing about photographers and the work they're doing and how some of their work might relate to my own. The tutor also said about our branding and trademarks within our work, e.g. a style o lighting, will help distinguish us against other artists by having a distinct style and to try and find it as soon as we can as this will help finding jobs available to us, as if we have a particular style, a person will know to come to us as that is what they want for their images. It would be good to also write about my work and how I went about creating it, going through the stages of working to the final product. As well as showing how we did our work we can show our time management of our shoots and organising them, combined with our lessons and organising it so we can get a model/ subject in to shoot. Within the lesson it was also discussed about copyright laws, laws and finance if you're going to be a free lance photographer, setting up your own studio and even if you're not, just to be wise and careful about money coming in and going out. To be aware of any social, political and cultural issues that are going on especially if you're shooting some new work for yourself or a client. Being open minded about different things and open to other's opinions was also talked about.
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