Re: [Avid-L2] Re: making a demo reel

Exactly exactly exactly exactly right. You have have absolutely no idea what the editor was up against. Maybe that Oscar-winning movie took all the powers of the editor plus the channeled ghosts of Verna Fields, Dede Allen, and Sergei Eisenstein. Or maybe the footage just came in already with a built-in logic, and ready for a spit-shine. Unless you were there and actually part of it (or privy to reliable anecdotal information), you have no way of knowing.

Also, more than once have I found stuff I cut on another person's demo reel.

David


On Jul 13, 2013, at 9:14 AM, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:

> I never look at demo reels. You can't tell what an editor actually did from them for one, and you can't tell if they are a mediocre editor who had great footage from a great director, or they are an Einstein of editors who made a viewable project from horsesh!t.
>
> --- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, "caamada" <dario.caamano@...> wrote:
> >
> > HI.
> > I would like to receive your experience making demo reels or show reels (I don't know if there's a difference).
> > I been working as an editor for 5 years in a tv educational channel, making documentaries and some general interest shows.
> > I had work also in little comercials and some fictionals and artistic videos.
> > I dont know how can I mix all this in a good demo reel that show what I do. I never do a demo reel of this kind.
> >
> > I saw a lot of demo reels in vimeo, but I would like to receive advice or a demo reel of yours to see whats a good direction to take.
> >
> > Thanks and my english is not good, I know!
> >
> > Dario from Argentina
> >
>
>

David Dodson
davidadodson@sbcglobal.net





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