- Whether you're a graphic designer,
photographer, filmmaker, writer,
or any kind of creator,
showcasing your work in the form
of a super cool portfolio video is gonna help you stand out
and land the gigs you've always wanted.
So in this video, I'm gonna show you
the step-by-step process to create
a standout portfolio like this one in minutes,
even if you have no video editing experience.
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Sounds amazing, right?
Let's get into it.
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The first step is planning your portfolio.
There are two things you want to keep
in mind while you're planning.
First, what skills do you want to showcase?
And second, what gigs are you trying to land?
Remember, this is a short portfolio,
you want to keep it under a minute.
(alarm ringing) The benefit of this
is that it can get you noticed
so much quicker than if you have
to send your potential clients to a website.
But what it means for you,
is that you want to try to get as specific as possible.
So let's say you're a photographer,
try to narrow that down.
For example, do you want to get booked
for portrait photography or landscape photography?
Because this is such a short video,
you want to stick to one niche.
And if you're someone who has more than one skill,
you can always make more than one portfolio.
Once you have an idea of your niche,
go through your work and pick out the best examples.
If you're struggling with this,
think about the projects that you enjoyed the most,
because those are the type of gigs
that you want to get hired for again.
So I've gathered a few videos
and my niche is gonna be travel videography.
The next step is to head over to invideo.io
and find a template.
So you're gonna want to sign up for a free account
if you haven't already done so.
And then once you're on the homepage,
all you have to do is search portfolio.
And we'll get a ton of amazing options.
So let's go ahead and look at a few examples,
here's one for a graphic designer.
And even though this is kind of tailored
for a graphic designer,
you could plug in any skill you have.
So anyone could use this template
because you do get to customize it and make it your own.
Here's another example for photography.
This one's really beautiful.
As you can see, we have a ton of options.
I'm gonna go ahead and use this one
called filmmaking portfolio.
And as I watch it, I can see that there are nine slots
where I'm gonna have to fill in my own videos.
So I can just go back through the video clips
that I selected and make sure that I have enough.
I'm just gonna go ahead and hit use this template.
So now I've got the template open
and I have a few of the videos that I want to use
uploaded to my InVideo account already,
but to upload a few more, I'm just gonna hit upload media.
So for this first slide,
I want to pick out my strongest video example.
So once I have that picked out, I'm just gonna drag it
on top of the video that's already there.
And then I'm gonna hit replace.
And then I'm gonna go ahead and change the text,
just so it says the title of my film.
All right, moving on to the next slide.
Now here I have two slots to put my videos.
And I might want to pick out two
that are aesthetically similar.
For example, in the template you can see
there's two black and white clips here.
What I'm gonna do is put two kind of nice,
nature scenery clips that look really nice together.
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All right. And then my next slide here has three,
and it has a title at the top
where you can put the categories.
I'm gonna go ahead and call this, Documentaries.
And then I'm gonna fill these in
with three different travel documentaries that I've made.
All right. And then I've got one more slide
with four slots, so I'm just gonna repeat
the same process that I've been doing.
All right. Now I've got all my videos in place,
so what I'm gonna do is just go back through
and make sure the template is completely personalized.
So on the first slide, I'll put my name,
and of course the purpose of my portfolio.
You can go ahead and put maybe your location.
And then at the end, I've got slots here to put my website
and my social media handles, which is super helpful.
And then one more thing I might add is my email address.
This is optional, but if you want someone
to be able to contact you after seeing your portfolio,
you could go ahead and put your email address
or your phone number or whatever way
you prefer to get contacted.
All right. And now the final thing I'm gonna do
to make this template my own is change the colors.
So right now the color scheme is kind of orange and yellow,
but I'm gonna go ahead and change that,
just by coming over to the right-hand side here
and then hitting change project colors.
So if you have specific colors that you like to use
for your branding, you can go ahead and plug that in here.
And as you can see that changes it
on the template over here.
Pretty cool. I think I like that.
Go ahead and play with the colors
until you find something you like.
All right. And then when you're happy with it,
just come up to the top right hand corner
and hit download and share it to save your portfolio.
So now that you have an amazing portfolio,
you should start landing your dream gigs in no time.
If you found this video helpful,
be sure to hit that like button
and let us know in the comments,
what type of video you want to see next.
And if you're a video creator,
you definitely want to check out our video
where we talk about eight profitable video niches
to make you money in 2021.
I'm Teresa with InVideo, and I will see you in the next one.
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