Someone recommended me for an audition but said I needed a reel. Overextended as always, I made one last night between the hilariously nonproductive hours of 1am and 4am. Since I’m not a great editor, I simply took 10 clips that were about a minute each and set them up as chapters on a DVD. Each one starts with a title screen describing what the clip is from. It’s more like a visual resume.
Usually a ‘reel’ is a slick montage of 10-15 second clips, from what I can tell. The upside of my method is that someone gets to see more than 1 line of me doing something. A few clips are longer than a minute, but I figure people could just skip to the next track.
I’m not sure how much slickness matters. I once spent $300 on headshots but have gotten far more attention from my UCBT profile page, which features a photo taken in 3 seconds by Dyna Moe before an improv show.
I’m wondering what the best strategy is for these things.
On my iTunes now:
Child Star by The Unicorns from "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"
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Mar 22nd, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Your headshots are handsome, but I think your cats good use some headshots.
Mar 22nd, 2007 at 3:38 pm
your “headshot” is also on the header of this blog
Mar 23rd, 2007 at 12:51 pm
There’s another strange “Linda” cat themed post. Creepy.
-Terry