Top 10 things to never put on your Reel

[Matt P]

Kill one and another seems to appear in it's place. I think this calls for an image verification system on sign up!

-Matt

p.s. Not a runner any more!

[Hugh]

Yeah - sorry about the spam influx, guys... If you could just keep clicking the "report post" link every time you see one, I'll try to keep on top of it.

We'll see what we can do about getting better verification going...

[vetalas]

Well, this is my first post here on VFXTalk..

This thread was very helpful on helping me to determine what to put on my demo reel. I still have about a year left at school to get some stuff done for it but I'll definitely be taking this stuff into consideration! Thanks!

[mboden]

Thought I'd add one of my old post to this thread.

http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/demo-re...oop-t5125.html

[El Oso]

What do you guys think about resolution??
How large should a showreel be?

[Gentle Fury]

What do you guys think about resolution??
How large should a showreel be?

If it is an online reel no smaller than 640x360 for 16:9 and 640x480 for 4:3. That tends to be the ideal size/quality ratio that keeps filesize small but image quality high.

[Dotcommer]

Since this was bumped by a spammer, I thought I'd go through and re-read it all.

The most important stuff I learned probably with the most impact was from Bitterbri who sat down and acted like a recruiter and watched 70 horrible demo reels. This really put the demo reel stuff into perspective for me.

[vineetsonkar]

well check out my vfx demoreel and plz tell me wht missing in it....

[martie]

This is a top 10 things not to put in your demo reel thread, not a personal link and bump to your own demo reel.

[Zwickel]

My demo reel will consist of 4chan images composed into a 3d cube in after effects, long live longcat.

[fxSplash]

Hi , A bit of a stupid question, I'm sure I know the answer already, but hey!

Does the music for a showreel have to be Copyright free? I only ask becuase i've watched many show-reels and they seem to have big well known songs/music (e.g. I see you - from Avatar)

Thank you

[Dotcommer]

lol, wow, really? Song from avatar, someone's using in their reel? Show me that reel. Thats both hilarious and ridiculous.

[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!

[fxSplash]

Here u go, its 1:24 http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/marc-zi...el-t23847.html

and this guy uses the whole song: http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/new-ree...al-t23552.html

[Matt P]

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.