Universty Filmmaking/production portfolios

I am currently doing my A-Levels and I have recently sent off my university applications to Uni of Salford, MMU, NTU and Leeds arts to do film production. All of them are asking for portfolios. From what I can tell by the websites they are asking for examples of filmmaking with fully developed planning. Being an 18 year old A-Level student do they really expect us to have already done this?
I have work that I have done in my A-Level film studies class but those were just exercises to get us used to camera work and realistically are not very good seen as we were only given 1 or 2 hour lessons to film in. Would it be stupid to use these?
We are also currently doing our film NEA which does has proper planning to it however I am unsure wether we are able to these in our portfolios as they are part of our final grade?
It is completely unrelated to film but I do play in a band and we are writing original music and have a handful of recordings. Would I be able to use these to show my ‘creativeness’ in my portfolio?
The only logical thing that I could use is footage from an old camera I took on holiday with me last year and just took random shots over the 2 weeks of thing I thought looked nice. However there is no planning to go alongside this.
Am I completely overthinking this or are there over people in the same boat as me?

I am currently doing my A-Levels and I have recently sent off my university applications to Uni of Salford, MMU, NTU and Leeds arts to do film production. All of them are asking for portfolios. From what I can tell by the websites they are asking for examples of filmmaking with fully developed planning. Being an 18 year old A-Level student do they really expect us to have already done this?
I have work that I have done in my A-Level film studies class but those were just exercises to get us used to camera work and realistically are not very good seen as we were only given 1 or 2 hour lessons to film in. Would it be stupid to use these?
We are also currently doing our film NEA which does has proper planning to it however I am unsure wether we are able to these in our portfolios as they are part of our final grade?
It is completely unrelated to film but I do play in a band and we are writing original music and have a handful of recordings. Would I be able to use these to show my ‘creativeness’ in my portfolio?
The only logical thing that I could use is footage from an old camera I took on holiday with me last year and just took random shots over the 2 weeks of thing I thought looked nice. However there is no planning to go alongside this.
Am I completely overthinking this or are there over people in the same boat as me?

I am currently doing my A-Levels and I have recently sent off my university applications to Uni of Salford, MMU, NTU and Leeds arts to do film production. All of them are asking for portfolios. From what I can tell by the websites they are asking for examples of filmmaking with fully developed planning. Being an 18 year old A-Level student do they really expect us to have already done this?
I have work that I have done in my A-Level film studies class but those were just exercises to get us used to camera work and realistically are not very good seen as we were only given 1 or 2 hour lessons to film in. Would it be stupid to use these?
We are also currently doing our film NEA which does has proper planning to it however I am unsure wether we are able to these in our portfolios as they are part of our final grade?
It is completely unrelated to film but I do play in a band and we are writing original music and have a handful of recordings. Would I be able to use these to show my ‘creativeness’ in my portfolio?
The only logical thing that I could use is footage from an old camera I took on holiday with me last year and just took random shots over the 2 weeks of thing I thought looked nice. However there is no planning to go alongside this.
Am I completely overthinking this or are there over people in the same boat as me?

Hi I just sent in my portfolio about a week ago and got an offer from AUB. I think that generally the unis you applied to are all asking for the same thing which is send in creative work in which you can tell a story with showing your story telling potential through different forms of media e.g. photography, drawings or videos/films. With some preferences so you could send in the same thing to all of them unless it asks you for specific things e.g. role in the making of something.
To answer your first question put simply, no.
They are assessing you on creative potential and how much you already know which shows your interest and willingness to learn in the subject).
Second question not necessarily it shows you already having a base knowledge of the subject and strong interest as you took it as A-level.
Third question, you would be able to there are no guidelines AFAIK against submitting it. Make sure to show your process and name your role in making it. So show how you got to that idea so like decisions made in pre production scripts storyboards etc. and post.
Fourth q, yes 100% if they do have lyrics you could explain your thought process behind the making of your songs.
Fifth q, no need to say if it had planning if the framing is good it should show to your potential of attention to detail.
Personally, what I did was a showreel of videos i have made (I have not made a film) and photography I showed storyboards as well and explained my thoughts behind them.
If you have any questions send them through, might take long to reply!

I am currently doing my A-Levels and I have recently sent off my university applications to Uni of Salford, MMU, NTU and Leeds arts to do film production. All of them are asking for portfolios. From what I can tell by the websites they are asking for examples of filmmaking with fully developed planning. Being an 18 year old A-Level student do they really expect us to have already done this?
I have work that I have done in my A-Level film studies class but those were just exercises to get us used to camera work and realistically are not very good seen as we were only given 1 or 2 hour lessons to film in. Would it be stupid to use these?
We are also currently doing our film NEA which does has proper planning to it however I am unsure wether we are able to these in our portfolios as they are part of our final grade?
It is completely unrelated to film but I do play in a band and we are writing original music and have a handful of recordings. Would I be able to use these to show my ‘creativeness’ in my portfolio?
The only logical thing that I could use is footage from an old camera I took on holiday with me last year and just took random shots over the 2 weeks of thing I thought looked nice. However there is no planning to go alongside this.
Am I completely overthinking this or are there over people in the same boat as me?

I am currently doing my A-Levels and I have recently sent off my university applications to Uni of Salford, MMU, NTU and Leeds arts to do film production. All of them are asking for portfolios. From what I can tell by the websites they are asking for examples of filmmaking with fully developed planning. Being an 18 year old A-Level student do they really expect us to have already done this?
I have work that I have done in my A-Level film studies class but those were just exercises to get us used to camera work and realistically are not very good seen as we were only given 1 or 2 hour lessons to film in. Would it be stupid to use these?
We are also currently doing our film NEA which does has proper planning to it however I am unsure wether we are able to these in our portfolios as they are part of our final grade?
It is completely unrelated to film but I do play in a band and we are writing original music and have a handful of recordings. Would I be able to use these to show my ‘creativeness’ in my portfolio?
The only logical thing that I could use is footage from an old camera I took on holiday with me last year and just took random shots over the 2 weeks of thing I thought looked nice. However there is no planning to go alongside this.
Am I completely overthinking this or are there over people in the same boat as me?

I am currently doing my A-Levels and I have recently sent off my university applications to Uni of Salford, MMU, NTU and Leeds arts to do film production. All of them are asking for portfolios. From what I can tell by the websites they are asking for examples of filmmaking with fully developed planning. Being an 18 year old A-Level student do they really expect us to have already done this?
I have work that I have done in my A-Level film studies class but those were just exercises to get us used to camera work and realistically are not very good seen as we were only given 1 or 2 hour lessons to film in. Would it be stupid to use these?
We are also currently doing our film NEA which does has proper planning to it however I am unsure wether we are able to these in our portfolios as they are part of our final grade?
It is completely unrelated to film but I do play in a band and we are writing original music and have a handful of recordings. Would I be able to use these to show my ‘creativeness’ in my portfolio?
The only logical thing that I could use is footage from an old camera I took on holiday with me last year and just took random shots over the 2 weeks of thing I thought looked nice. However there is no planning to go alongside this.
Am I completely overthinking this or are there over people in the same boat as me?

Hi i just sent my applications and one was AUB, i am currently working on my portfolios, can i ask to see your's? i am a bit confused on how to make my film portfolio for them as i have a website on wix but i dont think it's what they want.

I am currently doing my A-Levels and I have recently sent off my university applications to Uni of Salford, MMU, NTU and Leeds arts to do film production. All of them are asking for portfolios. From what I can tell by the websites they are asking for examples of filmmaking with fully developed planning. Being an 18 year old A-Level student do they really expect us to have already done this?
I have work that I have done in my A-Level film studies class but those were just exercises to get us used to camera work and realistically are not very good seen as we were only given 1 or 2 hour lessons to film in. Would it be stupid to use these?
We are also currently doing our film NEA which does has proper planning to it however I am unsure wether we are able to these in our portfolios as they are part of our final grade?
It is completely unrelated to film but I do play in a band and we are writing original music and have a handful of recordings. Would I be able to use these to show my ‘creativeness’ in my portfolio?
The only logical thing that I could use is footage from an old camera I took on holiday with me last year and just took random shots over the 2 weeks of thing I thought looked nice. However there is no planning to go alongside this.
Am I completely overthinking this or are there over people in the same boat as me?

I am currently doing my A-Levels and I have recently sent off my university applications to Uni of Salford, MMU, NTU and Leeds arts to do film production. All of them are asking for portfolios. From what I can tell by the websites they are asking for examples of filmmaking with fully developed planning. Being an 18 year old A-Level student do they really expect us to have already done this?
I have work that I have done in my A-Level film studies class but those were just exercises to get us used to camera work and realistically are not very good seen as we were only given 1 or 2 hour lessons to film in. Would it be stupid to use these?
We are also currently doing our film NEA which does has proper planning to it however I am unsure wether we are able to these in our portfolios as they are part of our final grade?
It is completely unrelated to film but I do play in a band and we are writing original music and have a handful of recordings. Would I be able to use these to show my ‘creativeness’ in my portfolio?
The only logical thing that I could use is footage from an old camera I took on holiday with me last year and just took random shots over the 2 weeks of thing I thought looked nice. However there is no planning to go alongside this.
Am I completely overthinking this or are there over people in the same boat as me?

Hi, glad to hear you’ve applied to our film course! You can absolutely use a Wix website to showcase examples of your current work.
As mentioned above, we’d love to see any creative projects you’ve previously worked on. These can be across any form, whether that’s photography, music, creative writing or art to name a few, as well as why you love film and what inspires you. Our course team are interested in your creativity and passion as a whole, and who you are as a person too – all of this would be great to include on your website
Be sure to check our Portfolio Guidelines if you haven’t already for a more detailed overview. You're also welcome to pay us a visit at our final Open Day this Saturday 10 January, where you can speak directly to our course team and show them what you've put together so far.
Best of luck with your application and portfolio!
– Ben

hi thank you 🙂 so when you said the max minutes is 5 do you want a montage of work put into 5 minutes or one project which is around 5 minutes long.