Top 10 things to never put on your Reel - Page 4

Matt P · February 13th, 2010, 08:16 AM

I think a lot of people use copyrighted music on their reel. Generally it's not a problem - reels aren't commercially for sale productions so I think there is a relaxed attitude to the music being used as there is with amateur films.

Dotcommer · February 13th, 2010, 01:03 PM

Yeah, I agree with Matt, however, using a song from avatar? Come on... Thats lame.

Matt P · February 13th, 2010, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Dotcommer

Yeah, I agree with Matt, however, using a song from avatar? Come on... Thats lame.

It's an awful track too. It'd be lame to use it on an avatar showreel!

vineetsonkar · March 24th, 2010, 12:56 AM

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Originally Posted by ian_holland

Here's the reel with the Avatar theme on. It starts around 1 min 25 secs.
http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/marc-zi...7.html?t=23847

I thought it was a bit ridiculous to use it but everyone seemed to praise the reel and not comment on this fact which surprised me a lot!

thank you soo much ian_holland

tekulavishnu · March 27th, 2010, 05:06 AM

hello i am new to this site plz help me how to upload the work

grinner · March 27th, 2010, 10:56 AM

1. a space ship
2. light savers
3. lens flairs
4. pirated elements
5. bad stuff
6. a bad lable/embed page
7. techno music
8. an open screen with a phone number lasting long enough for me to kick out the DVD and move on to the next one
9. reapeated effects
10. I'll repeat the light saber thing.

adas · May 5th, 2010, 01:56 AM

to all artist ....please put works on Reel which are yours....

grinner · May 5th, 2010, 11:15 AM

as opposed to?
lol
what agreat aidea.

johnc · May 5th, 2010, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by adas

to all artist ....please put works on Reel which are yours....

+1!

upstartmike · **NO VIDEO COPILOT -** May 29th, 2010, 10:45 AM

I have reels sent to me every week with this, and students at the college I teach try to hand this crap in....

NO VIDEO CO-PILOT tutorial projects on your reel!!!!!!!!!

I appreciate Andrew Kramer's gift of AE tricks, but I think he's done a huge disservice to the vfx/motion design world by giving too many 'finishing' tricks to kids who haven't done their proper ground work yet. This has completely flooded the talent pool with millions+ of demo reels that mimic his tutorials, which in turn yield REALLY impressive shots to someone who isn't familiar with VCP.

Of course to me or any other potential employer, we'd see right through it. Unfortunately in the free-lance world, not all clients will be as discerning, and therefore won't realize what they're looking at is just a paint-by-number-artist.

Don't get me wrong, I'm against hoarding knowledge, I think it's great to have free resources for everyone. But beginners should not be given these gimmicky finishing tricks (CC/flares/vignette/grain/etc) until they've earned their way there. It's the same thing as putting these new DSLR video cameras in the hands of amateurs who haven't learned to make a movie with a handicam yet. They're given the luxury of pristine (beautiful) footage, without ever having to learn the fundamentals of film making.

Call me a dinosaur, but back in the 80s I began making movies on a shitty borrowed vhs handicam. This taught me the foundations of film making and forced me to be clever for YEARS until I finally hit the day when I was able to shoot stuff on 35mm film.

I won't gripe about technology, but I will about giving away these paint-by-numbers gimmicks. Kramer's made some good coin, and I can't say I blame him much. But he has to be held accountable for diluting the talent-pool.

This wasn't mean to be a VCP rant, but bottom line don't use any obvious tutorial'd clips.

cheers,
mike