What to Include in a Film & Media Portfolio

A portfolio is not an archive. It’s a highlight reel of your professional identity.

Yet many film professionals upload everything they’ve ever worked on and hope something sticks.

What Your Portfolio Must Answer Quickly

Within seconds, anyone viewing your portfolio should know:

• what you do

• what kind of projects you work on

• where you fit best

If that’s unclear, they move on.

What to Include

Your portfolio should have:

• role-specific work

• recent or relevant projects

• clean credits

• media grouped by purpose (auditions, scenes, reels, scripts)

Quality always beats quantity.

What to Avoid

• outdated work that no longer represents you

• unrelated experiments

• cluttered uploads without context

• incomplete credits

Your portfolio should guide the viewer, not test their patience.

Think Like a Viewer

Casting and production teams don’t browse for fun. They browse to decide.

When your portfolio flows naturally from one piece of work to the next, you stay longer in consideration. That flow matters more than most people realise.