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  • Audio showreel

    Posted by Lara Van meer on December 1, 2013 at 10:40 pm

    Hello everybody.

    I have tried to find an answer in the forum, but being new, I got a little bit lost so I apologised if a thread have already been opened about that. Actually I have Googled it but couldn’t really find anything related to audio showreel, everything is about video showreel.

    I am about to apply for a job in a radio. They ask for a showreel of Actually, the job of my dream in the radio I really love. I am not extremely experienced, so I would like to work really hard on my application to at least have a chance to have an interview.

    So here are my questions :

    1) Should I do just an audio showreel and put it on soundcloud or a video showreel, with maybe a description on the screen of what the job was and which audio treatment have been applied and put in on Vimeo?

    3) How long should each part be? I understand that the showreel should be between 30 second and big maximum 3 minutes but how long should each sample be?

    4) What should I put in an Audio showreel? Just some extracts of recording/editing I have done? And some before/after I have add an effect? It’s going to be a little bit pointless and repetitive no?

    Well that is actually a lot of questions, but I really want to do well :/

    Thank you for your help

    Lara Van meer replied 12 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Brian Reynolds

    December 2, 2013 at 9:55 pm

    Most ‘Radio’ production people could come up with several tracks for a reel, even TV sound people could provide www. links to some work they were involved with.
    As a newcomer to the industry don’t try and create a ‘fake’ reel ie. stuff that hasn’t actually gone to air, it will be spotted a mile off and it will make you look silly, It would be far better to be honest.
    If you DID have some tracks, probably 2-3 minutes would be ample.

  • Lara Van meer

    December 5, 2013 at 3:25 pm

    Thank you for the advice. 🙂

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