My creative CV

This is my creative CV that I've been designing. It's not your typical black and white basic CV, instead it's got colour, passion and charisma. It's completely different just by changing it from portrait to landscape.

What went well:

I was able to achieve a continuous theme (Gestalt) by having the most important part of my CV on the left hand side, and then having a decorative font family with my name makes it stand out from the rest, instantly bringing your attention to who you're reading about.

I provided colours which represent calmness as well as them being friendly and subtle, not only this but they're simplistic, meaning they're not too overbearing with the text provided. The colours also represent me as a calm individual. Having a light brown as the background worked well, contrasting it with the dominance of a black stroke and black text. I think that the icons also went well. The bow used represents neatness, punctuality and perfection, a trophy meaning success and achievement, meaning I want to do everything I can to get my dream job, and then I've added flowers as my border to represent purity and growth as me as a person. Also I added a light bulb to link to my text that I've written about later on. This is because light bulbs represent brightness and ideas, which is what photographers need to be. They cannot be laid back when it comes to choosing what to do for a certain photo and so I wanted to show that I am creative and I'm full of ideas for the sort of photos I want to be taking. By using the fonts I have, I've kept it simple yet effective by choosing them to be in capitals, which could show that I'm a bold and outgoing person. Also, by using the text "In Greek Eleanor means "the bright one" I've shown creativity and travel sense, therefore reflecting skills a photographer would use. I also used sans serif font, purely because there's loads of text on here, and so by using serif font would over complicate it, and also sans serif links to my age due to it attracting a younger audience. By using circles I was showing my wholeness and endlessness to my passion when working. I've used Gestalts theory of continuity because I've listed to more important things on the left hand side so they're seen first and the reader gets to grip of who I am. However the attention isn't taken away from the title which is in the decorative font family, a clever technique to catch the reader's eye, and overall creating an aesthetically pleasing look to the whole CV. Also, by using the decorative font family it gives a personal touch. This is because it looks handwritten which shows masses of effort and creativity. It shows I'm marking my own work just like a photographer does. I've used organisation skills also by separating everything with a stroke. I used the stamp tool to create this stroke, and I chose to use the flower border because it compliments the leaves in the background. I added a photograph of myself that's different to a normal photo. This is because I've doubled it up to try and show that I have skills when it comes to editing photos. Alternatively, I could say that this CV has the connotations of a wedding invitation which could show the sort of photographer I want to be. I would love to be a wedding photographer and so by my CV looking like an invitation to a wedding I could be showing that that's what I want to do as my profession.

What I could've done better:

When I asked Jo and Terri if there was anything to improve they said they wouldn't change anything, however I think I may change the colours maybe, due to them not being as bright as they could potentially be. If i changed it to maybe a purple colour which could then represent creativity and luxury, which would therefore represent me to be a creative person, which would then link into photography. Not only this but I might add a bit of green in somewhere, which is an active colour, representing how I'm ready to start working immediately and will always be on top.

Do if feel that I met the brief? 

I do feel as though I have met the brief due to me meeting all targets set. I worked on this project for ages and feel as though I've achieved the best I possibly could and I'm incredibly happy with it.

Completed to my best standard? 

I feel as though I have but I could've improved the colours to represent my personality a bit more because I'm an incredibly outgoing person and the colours are quite simple and subtle so don't represent me as well as bright and vibrant colours would.