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Hi all!

If I'm in the wrong section of the forum for this, I'm sorry. I was wondering if anyone had any guidelines or knew of any demos or websites I could look at to find out the proper/professional way to make my demo reel. I've got quite a few projects that I'd like to showcase parts of, but I don't think that dragging and dropping all of the projects onto a dvd is really the way to go. I don't think that anyone would really want to sit all the way through that. Does anyone have any tips?

Thanks for you help,
- D -

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Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded. - 2 Chronicles 15:7
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon and some days you are the statue" - David Brent

Posted : 14/01/2005 5:24 pm

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You might want to check the messageboards on cinematography.com for links.

As a director, I have seen many reels. I prefer then shorter to longer - say 6 minutes. A really great thing about DVD's is the ability to but different things on one disc. Your main reel could be 6 minutes - a nice overview of different styles using different medium (DV, Betacam, Super8, 16mm, 35mm, HD). Then you could include an entire scene from a film. Then a longer reel - say 10-15 minutes of footage.

That way if I like the short version I could continue looking. If I don't, I can just move on.

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Posted : 14/01/2005 8:39 pm