Demo Reel From Nothing At All???? hmm..

[Mark Petereit]

Find a church in your area that’s just getting into video and offer to do some work for them for free. Believe me, you’ll be a tremendous blessing to them and you’ll get the demo reel material you need.

Mix in an animal shelter, a PSA for a homeless shelter, domestic abuse shelter, your local United Way, non-profit hospital. Heck, pick your favorite restaurant and tell them you’ll do a commercial in exchange for $X free food. Ask your local news affiliate if you could free-lance some motion graphics for their next “calendar of events” spot.

You know that local commercial you keep seeing on TV that is just absolutely, pitifully awful? Tell them you’ll make a great one for them in exchange for them agreeing to never put that piece of crap on TV again. You’d be doing the public a great service!

The options are endless!

[Jeremy Fabiano]

OMG LOL!!

Mark,

The end of your post just made my morning a lot less awful! Laughing is extremely healthy.

Yeah there’s a few of those commercials.. all those ideas sound great, I’ll be looking into that coming very soon.

I’m looking at a Panasonic Dv-Gs12 for a camera. It’s not the greatest camera on the planet, but it’s my Ferrari compared to the crap I’m using right now.

Soon as I get my hands on it and some DV media I’ll be looking into that.

Want to thank everyone who’s posted and offered their advice and experience. If anyone else wants to pitch in by all means feel free.

Thanks again.

-Jeremy

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