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

You know, I myself have never fully understood what the answer to that question is.

Except... that many times the people who are looking at your reel DON'T KNOW that you can almost never tell what an editor did by looking at their reel. They see the reel, make assumptions, and viola! you're hired! Then it's just up to you to not screw it up!

David



On Jul 13, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Dario Caamaño <dario.caamano@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
> >
> > 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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> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Dario Caamaño
> -----------------------
> : http://vimeo.com/caamada
> : http://www.flickr.com/photos/caamada/
>
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>

David Dodson
davidadodson@sbcglobal.net





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