It doesn’t hurt to show that you’ve worked with big clients. Then, go through your work for the past year or two and find clips of the most captivating and interesting work. List your strengths and make sure they are represented in the work on your reel. Make sure you include work that shows off your skills and strengths. What strengths do you have in the type of work you want to pursue? If you have a variety of work that you’d like to pursue, whether it be, corporate, commercial, motion graphics, Director of Photography, colorist, etc., consider creating separate reels for each type of content.Ģ. If you’ve been shooting weddings for the past 5 years and that is mainly the content that you have for your reel, but you want to be a 3D modeler, you need to have work on your reel that shows 3D modeling, not weddings. I take this one as sort of a “dress for the job that you want, not the job you have”. Thinking this through will help you design a more effective reel.ġ. Write or think through the answers to the following questions before editing. Use this worksheet to guide the production of your reel. She told me that the purpose of the worksheet questions is what help students think about the content and the goal of the reel.īelow are the worksheet questions that she hands out to her students, along with my own comments. Her worksheet did not get into the details of a reel (duration, music, etc.) but instead focused on the content. Suzanne from GVSU sent me a worksheet that she gives to her Digital Post Production class about preparing reels. The Planning Stages Choosing and Preparing Content I came across this video yesterday and, on the whole, it really hits a lot of points that I mention in this article. Between the input from Suzanne Zack and the After Effects Portal, not to mention what I know from my own experience, this IS the ultimate guide to creating a demo reel.įeatured image credit: Yannis Papanastasopoulos Demo Reels You’ll Have Over Your Career (in VFX)Īdam McCay talks about the different types of reels you’ll create over the course of your career. To prepare for the panel, I asked the group what they thought and they mainly gave technical details on length, music, getting permission, etc.
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I am also an admin in the After Effects Portal, a group on Facebook that is very busy and full of smart After Effects users. She sent over a document that she hands out to her students about preparing a demo reel and instead of being straight forward with the technical details, it gets more into the analytical reasons behind choosing demo reel content. During the initial planning meeting, I talked to Suzanne Zack, who is the secretary of the Film & Video Alumni chapter and also an Affiliate Professor of Film and Video in the School of Communications at Grand Valley State University. I was on the panel talking along with several other professionals about the do’s and don’t’s of producing your demo reel. I am on the board of the GVSU Film and Video Alumni chapter and last month we held a résumé and demo reel workshop. Let’s take a step back about how this topic came up. VFX breakdowns show, in layers or stages, how effects were created and usually consist of a single film or project. This is just semantics and I’ve seen the words used interchangeably, so if you’d rather call your work a showreel, don’t sweat it. A showreel is usually a demo reel for a studio or a school and includes content from several artists. however, it’s not quite that simple to make something that will get attention and get you the work.ĭemo reels, showreels, and VFX breakdown reels serve similar but different purposes.
It should show your best work, your style, and your diversity in skills…. A demo reel, sometimes called a showreel, is a 1-2 minute video commercial designed to sell your skills to a potential client or employer.
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