Pros & Cons of a CV, Portfolio & Showreel

Pros & Cons of a C.V:

The pros of having a CV in the media industry would be that it allows the employer of the company can check your work and how good your skills are at with a certain criteria in a certain area of the different media sectors. It allows the person who interviews you to just understand what you’re capable of by having a document with all your person details and the experience you have in media but it’s all just written by word; making it easy for the company to view. Cons would be that if you do not meet the requirements or do not have the C.V then, the company might not accept you because you do not fulfil the requirements or they don’t know your specialities because you haven’t showed them but they also want a C.V rather than just speaking to one other because this shows how efficient you are at following orders and they like to save their time, as CV’s have everything they need on it just by word.

 

 

Portfolio – A portfolio has more than one meaning; the first meaning is that it’s a large, thing, flat case which you use to carry your loose pieces of paper such as drawings or maps. The second meaning is that it’s a range of investments which are held by an organization or person.

Showreel – A showreel is a short videotape which contains different examples of a director’s or actor’s work so they can show this to their potential employers.