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

Great!. Thanks Mike. Maybe because of the variety of my work, I need more
than one reel.


On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Mikeparsons.tv <mikeparsons.tv@gmail.com>wrote:

> **
>
>
> Lead with your best stuff don't 'build' people hit stop real fast.
>
> Have more than one reel
> I have a generic tvc one
> An automotive reel
> A graphics reel
> A hair and beauty reel
>
> I don't have a features and long form reel just a list if movies - they
> should take the time to watch the whole damn thing if they want to see what
> I did.
>
> Mike
>
> On 14 Jul, 2013, at 12:44 AM, David Dodson <davidadodson@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > 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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> >> --
> >> 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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>



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


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