Multimedia portfolio examples

Ideas

Multimedia portfolio ideas worth stealing

Seven things that hold up across every multimedia portfolio worth the scroll.

• 1

  Show fewer pieces than you want to

  The instinct is to prove range. The effect is to dilute it. Six pieces you would defend in a meeting beat twenty you would explain.

• 2

  Lead with one strong image, not a menu

  A visitor decides whether to keep scrolling before they read anything. Give that decision one image to work with, not a list of options.

• 3

  Put contact one click from everywhere

  Every page needs a way to reach you that does not require going back to the top. Footer, sticky header, end of each project. Somewhere.

• 4

  Own the domain

  A portfolio on someone else's subdomain reads as a trial. Your own domain costs less than a coffee a month and it is the first thing an art buyer notices.

• 5

  Keep the nav to two things: the reel and a way to reach you

  Multimedia portfolios collapse under their own navigation faster than any other discipline, because the work spans formats and the instinct is to give each format a menu item. It does not need one.

• 6

  Group by output, not by client: motion, 3D, edit, sound

  Buyers hire for one output at a time. Someone who needs a title sequence is not browsing your sound work, and a client-name structure makes them dig for the thing they came for.

• 7

  Autoplay muted and loop short

  The first ten seconds decide it. Spend them on the work rather than a title card, and never make a visitor press play to find out whether you are any good.