Hi all:
After watching quite a few demo reels, it looks to me like there are two basic philosophies:
-One is to keep each of the works you've done in separate "blocks". Use music and editing to keep the pace and have the piece flow, but the viewer can tell each work apart relatively easily. (Example: Sascha Verwiebe's reel at
http://reels.creativecow.net/film/sascha-verwiebe-broadcast-design-motion-g... ).
-The other one is to "mix and match": just use cool footage from the stuff you've done and make a video with a nice rhythm. An example would be the our very own Shane Ross and his reel (
http://www.shanerosseditor.com/ ).
Now, which one do you guys consider the best? In my particular case, the problem is that I don't really have too many "stand-out" credits, the kind of works that I'd consider good enough to put in a reel (nor I have too many chances of doing works of that kind in my current company... which is why I'm updating my reel in the first place), so if I followed the first approach, my reel would be quite short. OTOH, sometimes I feel that the second approach is a bit... amateurish (as someone else posted in this forum a few days ago, "anyone can edit images following music beats").
Incidentally, my current (but outdated) reel, which follows approach #2, is at
http://www.vimeo.com/3020976 . Since I first made it I've done a few more "worthwhile" works, so I was wondering how to add them to it.
