Showreel 2016 – Showcasing Your Creative Range To Win Clients

I had success with a different kind of showreel, it’s more a step-by-step guide then a classic reel. but have a look, it brought me a lot of jobs:

My approach was not only to show some nice looking pictures, but catch the viewer emotionally with some kind of a story and music that supports the mood of the pictures.
I don’t know if I’ll use the “before-after”-effect on future reels, but at this level of my carreer it worked pretty well to show how I handle the images.

IME, Breakdown Reels are terrific if your potential client is unsure about the value of color grading (or what color grading entails). When you get to the level of Dan’s clients (ad agency, music video), those clients don’t need to be convinced that color grading is worth the expense… they need to be convinced you’ve got the skills. For them, breakdowns are an annoyance and so going with a more traditional demo reel like Dan showed in this Insight is more appropriate for them.

Often colorists (like editors) will build genre-specific reels and send out those reels when bidding for a project in that genre… a food reel, beauty reel, filmic reel, music video reel – and yes, breakdown reel.