This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] Re: making a demo reel

Saturday, July 13, 2013

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

Ok, but with this point of view, how can I sell myself as a video editor?
Thats the right question then

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:28 PM, David Dodson <davidadodson@sbcglobal.net>wrote:

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> 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.
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> Also, more than once have I found stuff I cut on another person's demo
> reel.
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> David
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> On Jul 13, 2013, at 9:14 AM, "Terence Curren" <tcurren@aol.com> wrote:
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> > 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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