Marketing yourself as a creative professional is obviously incredibly important, especially if you want to get new clients and more work. But what’s the best way to go about it? Here are six tips for creating a showreel or demo reel – good info to chew on when thinking about how best to showcase your talents and finding fresh ways to do it well<\/p>\n
Showreels are most often just a fast paced music montage jammed together with the biggest name brands, faces and expensive looking visuals you can muster<\/strong>. Like film trailers, demo reel and showreel styles tend to go through trends. Take action movies for example, sometimes its all about pounding beats and everything being as loud and as powerful as possible. More recently, there’s been a slew of trailers that try a different approach, contrasting action with peaceful orchestral music like The Dark Knight Rises<\/a><\/em> trailers or Halo Reach<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n