Portfolio building - Ideas?

Hi folks,
I'm trying to build a portfolio of eLearning content/Captivate projects. Nearly all of the Captivate projects I've worked on so far have been confidential or NDA projects that I can't share, and that has posed a problem for finding more work, because I have nothing to show for it.
Does anyone have any suggestions on nice projects I can build to make my portfolio shine?

Ok, why not take advantage of your limits and try to expand on them, as they are important.
Suggestion
Pick a person, place or thing and do a composition of them/it.
Create a texture for the background, use masks to place images.
a project like this can show your creativity for use of a camera, photoshop and texturing skills.
Because a single person composition could be knocked out in a few days depending on skill level, you may want to do a group of people, a town, a shelter, a church, hospital, local 4H group, your class, etc. This would allow you to have mulitple images showing a story that you are trying to tell. Keep that in mind, when someone can visually see a story the whole composion starts to pop.
Good luck and have fun.

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