Re: Opinion on my landing page...

Good to hear Paul. As I said though, be weary, not ignore entirely. Ready made stuff like that is great and a huge time saver, but they can still allow for personal input to make them unique in the way you decide to use them. Change sizes in them to make some contrast, add some effects that you recipe up which may be different then current trends, use them as track matt's and maskes, then fly through to a solid bg and animate in your text then use one again perhaps to reveal an other cliip and zoom into that. All I meant was it looked like you got the set, picked a couple and added them straight to your comp. Of course most clients would be oblivious to that, but when so many people use the same things it saturates the market. I'm looking at your bigger picture here. You want to be directing spots for Bang & Olufson, Sony, etc. Not Ron's Tires in your local town or city.When doing jobs on a super pro level scale I totally think stuff should be 100% original. When you think about it, you know how easy those ornaments are to make. Come up with a design in Illustrator, then copy paste it in AE into a comp, paint an animated mask over it, and there you go. You have your own original motion ornament. It will be similar perhaps, but still different then the guy down the road who has the stock stuff in his reel, advertising to the same clients. What would make someone work with you over the other guy? Cost perhaps? Experience? Word of mouth? Style or Quality? Things like this again might not matter much for your current market but I can tell you for sure in the high end stuff agencies and studios will higher you to produce work based on uniqueness and originality. I hope you blow right past the video work of seminars, local events, local business etc. Automotive, Beer, Pop-Media & Trendy Fashion are some of the genres of work I'd want to strive for if I was into video. Directing music videos as well. Hell I don't even know if thats your goal, maybe you just want to produce indy films until you get something big movie wise and take anything from weddings to business lectures just to fund you through your next endeavor. Some of the best advice I got from one of my instructors was to not make a habit of taking work if it wasn't going in the direction I wanted my career to go. To easy it is to get sucked in and keep doing jobs for a paycheck in the area you don't want to be in. Obviously if your gonna starve or loose your house do a job, but make the next one something in your ideal area. Whats gonna happen is you'll end up with a reel showing work you've done, but it will be getting clients that you don't want cause they are seeing the work in your reel and wanting that. At some point you have to break loose and go the path you want to film most, so it might as well be from the start. As you can see I have lots of free time to be offering my views. Accept or discard them, when it come down to it, whom am I really? Just a nobody who has friend and family that say my stuff is great. Good job on the instant revamp of the site btw.