Showreel style

[Mark Suszko]

The montage thing is usually IMO a better way to demo shooting/ camerawork quality, or to demostrate quickly that you have compisiting and kinetic type manipulation skills… but it doesn’t do much for showing you know how to tell a story, and that’s really what editors do. Personally, I think I’d rather see how you edit a complete short self-contained scene, than yet another spazzy montage. Unless the montage itself tells an actual story or sells a point of view or creates an emotional response.

I think you should cross-post this question to the editor’s forum to get a larger consensus.

[David Roth weiss]

“Reels” don’t necessarily apply anymore anyway. Most editors I know supoly links to their appropriate material on the Web. So, if someone contacts you about a hard-hitting documentary, you point them to a great clip from the last one you worked on, and point them the page where they can see your other stuff as well that interests them. A traditional reel can only hold interest for about 20-seconds, unless you’re cutting major A-list stuff all the time and can wow people with that for hours on end.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles
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[Farrokh Kouchekpour]

Thanks guys. 🙂