Portfolio Website Sanne van Lierop

For this semesters Convergent Production assignment I created a portfolio website. I am a Dutch Creative Business student from Breda University of Applied Sciences, and would like to showcase some of my work in media for future job opportunities and internships.

You can view my website here: Portfolio Website Sanne

(Feel free to explore the site elements with your cursor!)

Field

I am currently (2025) a third-year student at BUas in the Netherlands where I have the opportunity to learn about the wonderful world of media with a variety of projects. In my second year I chose to specialize in radio at my schools radio station HUB Radio, which taught me how to set up a concept for a unique show, how to tell stories through audio, and technical skills such as audio editing and operating the studio. Besides hosting shows, I also worked in artist relations where we were always looking for interesting artists to interview for our audience.

Furthermore, I have been developing myself as a photographer after gaining inspiration from my older sister. She worked in the field and showed me all these beautiful creative shots, which I then also wanted to be able to create. Photography is a way for me to bring feelings to life through a visual medium.

In addition to radio and photography, I have done a few design projects, ranging from logo designs to style guides, and even coding a website from scratch. Now I can add this portfolio to that list!

My website showcases a variety of projects I worked on, combining school assignments and personal projects.

Framer

The platform I used to create this website is called Framer. Framer is a visual web design tool that lets you design, animate, and publish responsive websites without coding , while still allowing advanced customization through coding when needed. This was my first time using Framer, after one of my classmates told me about the opportunities. What she did warn me about was the learning curve, since all the creative freedom adds some extensive knowledge about layouts and web design. Luckily, I was able to learn a lot of things through tutorials and previous knowledge.

Process

Moodboard

To start my project, I created a mood board including colors, fonts, inspiration images, and some of my own photos to match the overall look. I ended up using the fonts and layouts similar to the ones on my mood board, but I chose to stick with a color theme of very dark grey and white, to keep simplicity and put emphasis on the images and readability. On the left of my board I put my resume to see if I could make my website in a similar style, but soon found out that it would clash too much with my photo style.

The site

As you can see it wasn’t immediately how I wanted it to turn out. I tried many layouts, gallery styles, and even did some coding to adjust the elements to my liking. After working on it for so long, and showing it to many people for feedback, I have finally come to a stage where I am content with what I made.

I chose to stick with the brute, dark, simplistic design, while adding interactive elements such as cursor effects, a reel carousel (which gives it a social media feel), bento boxes, polaroids and videos to add that fun touch.

For the page about myself I took the freedom to give it a more playful look, as I also want to show more of my personality compared to the serious feel of the rest of the site.

The media

This website gives me the opportunity to show other people the visuals I make, whether it is a school-related project or just personal experimentation. Besides setting up the whole website, I also spent a lot of time sorting and editing all the photos, since most of them were just still on my sd cards untouched. I also had some interviews for HUB Radio that were not edited yet, so I took this as an opportunity to finish those as well.

For most of my photos I used a Nikon D90 SLDR camera which I got from my sister a few years ago. I use a combination of lenses with a Nikon 50mm lens, a Nikon 16-85mm lens, a Nikon 70-300mm lens, and a Tamron 90mm macro lens. I really take joy out of trying out all the possibilities with these different lenses. Further, for underwater photos I use a Sealife Micro 3.0 lens with an extra lamp for better colors.

Reflection

I really enjoyed working on this website, since this will forever be of use to me. I spent a lot of time on it now to get it set up, but in the future it will be easy to add new projects if I have them. It was a steep learning curve to use Framer, so a lot of my time went into figuring out how all the stacks and elements worked with the ideas I had in mind. Because of this, I learned many new things about the fundamentals of web design and even some more coding! One thing which I would have done differently now is divide my time a bit better. If I had done more work in the beginning of the semester and made a planning beforehand it would have saved me from a very busy schedule the past two months. Luckily, we did not have that many classes so I was able to spend most of my time on this project.

I am proud of the portfolio I am now able to show to others and I hope that this will give a good impression of my interests and experience.

Thank you.

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