Open Portfolio Review with Mercury Filmworks

Ottawa's Mercury Filmworks will visit Sheridan College on Monday March 17, and we have scheduled two events that you might wish to attend.

(1) The first event is a lecture by Mercury's VP of Production,  Marianne Culbert, and HR Manager, Brittany Hanniman, detailing Mercury's many ongoing projects, with perhaps some hints about their plans for the future. This talk will take place in J102 at 11 am on Monday morning.  All are invited.

(2) The second event could be of personal interest to you, because Marianne and Brittany will conduct an open portfolio review at 2 pm in A360 a+b. The format will be similar to a personal portfolio review of your work, but with a small group of other 4th Year students allowed to watch and listen.

Bring any work you would like to include in your upcoming Graduation Portfolio (see Milestone 6 for details about the Portfolio requirement,) Mercury has kindly provided the following suggestions and advice:

a.      Start with your strongest work.
b.      Limit the amount of work included (sometimes “less is more”.)
c.      Look for “strong poses” (either in animation or life drawing.)
d.      Display creativity, design style and personality.
e.      Include significant layout/background work.
           (Mercury will speak to their needs in that department)

Reading between the lines, they want to see two things: animation with strong poses, and layouts/backgrounds. Be prepared!

If you would like your work to be reviewed please contact your Mentor and have them email me. I will arrange the schedule for Monday afternoon.

Note that Mercury Filmworks will return on Industry Day and are likely planning to conduct more focused job interviews, based on the screening of your film, at that time.