5 Tips to Organize Your Portfolio Effectively: How to Present Your Locations Professionally

1. Structure and Categorize Your Locations

Proper organization and categorization are the foundation of a professional and user-friendly portfolio. Locamundo provides a standardized system with predefined categories, which is essential for helping production companies quickly find what they’re looking for.

For example: A large lake can, under the right circumstances, be filmed as an ocean. A tiled wall in a public pool can, with the right angles and props, resemble a slaughterhouse. This is where your unique creativity comes into play – seeing locations not just for what they are, but for what they can represent. By combining your creativity with Locamundo's structured categories, you can create a portfolio that stands out and is easy to navigate for production companies.

2. Focus on Quality and Image Order

Having multiple photos of a location is important, but make sure to prioritize the most critical images first. Many users searching through a registry lose interest after looking through 20 images. Experienced scouts often take 50–150 photos of a medium-sized location, but quality is always more important than quantity.

Make sure all your photos are in landscape format and have good contrast to display well, even on smartphones. Remove poor-quality images with bad lighting or focus issues. Avoid uploading photos provided by property owners unless they meet professional standards – your name is attached to the portfolio, and the quality reflects on your professionalism.

3. Prioritize Consistency – and Let Your Locations Work for You

A common issue among scouts using Locamundo is that many locations remain uncategorized and therefore do not go live. This bottleneck often occurs because scouts are busy with productions or plan to categorize locations later. Since locations don’t need to be online to be included in an album, categorization is often postponed.

The problem? Delaying this process means scouts can accumulate a backlog of uncategorized locations, making the task feel overwhelming. As a result, valuable locations never become visible to production companies, and scouts miss out on potential finder’s fees.

Imagine this scenario: You’re scouting lakes for a production and present 10 options to the client. The client chooses a stunning lake with breathtaking mountains in the background. Now, 9 unused lakes remain. Wouldn’t it be great if those lakes could still earn you money? They can if they’re categorized and live, ready to appear in searches for other production companies.

The solution? Make it a habit to categorize locations as soon as you upload them. This ensures that your locations not only become visible but also work for you – even long after a project ends. Remember, an uncategorized location is a missed opportunity for revenue and exposure.

4. Keep Information Detailed and Up-to-Date

Locamundo allows you to add information for each location. This information is visible to production companies when they click "More Information." Take the opportunity to include as much relevant detail as possible – both positive and any potential challenges.

For example:

• "Ample parking available."
• "Extra space provided by a neighboring property."
• "Audible noise from a nearby highway."

Honest and detailed information helps production companies quickly determine if your location is right for their project, saving time for everyone involved.

5. Rotate and Update Your Locations

Since Locamundo displays locations in the order they were uploaded, it can sometimes be beneficial to delete and re-upload older locations. This makes them appear as newly added and places them at the top of search results. This strategy is particularly useful if you know that a production company is actively looking for a specific type of location on Locamundo.

For example: You hear that a production company is searching for a small house near the village of Maqueda. Since Maqueda is so small, it doesn’t have its own category on Locamundo and is instead sorted under Málaga. By re-uploading your house, it will appear first in Málaga searches, increasing its chances of being selected.

Summary

Building an effective portfolio on Locamundo is about combining creativity, structure, and consistency. By:

• Using Locamundo’s predefined categories.
• Prioritizing quality and ordering key photos first.
• Categorizing your locations consistently to maximize visibility and income.
• Adding detailed and honest information for each location.
• Strategically rotating and updating your locations.

...you can ensure that your portfolio stands out and attracts the interest of production companies. Your attention to detail today can lead to your success tomorrow!