Short Films, PSAs, Music Videos?

[Castor Troy]

I've done freelance work here and there. And done video editing work for a few companies I've worked for. I don't really have any copies to show to anyone because the videos are all confidential, and the freelance work I didn't retain any rights to the material and since have lost my masters...

I have been planning some music videos that I would like to shoot in the future. When I have time and a working camera. Been wanting to put together a demo reel as well.

Yeah, I've also worked for clients who told me I couldn't use any of their footage for my demo reel and that they retained all the rights to them.

People in the industry are anal bastards, I tell you.

[ZephyrStar]

Poker tourney, something my pals and I shot back in school.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuaJFDTfOm0
Highres: http://www.zephyrstar.com/stuff/tourney.avi

[Bauzi]

@Megamom:
Sony bitch doesn't let me play the video in my country, but I really like the idea for a MEP!

[Brad]

Why not do a music video from all of us?

This would be an MEP... may be of interest to everyone to do their segment, making the production and post-production, each with its style and its vision of director.

We could do something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhP1HxC8WSM

34 directors participated in this Music Video

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/v ... 7&t=100317

[Megamom]

Why not do a music video from all of us?

This would be an MEP... may be of interest to everyone to do their segment, making the production and post-production, each with its style and its vision of director.

We could do something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhP1HxC8WSM

34 directors participated in this Music Video

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/v ... 7&t=100317

I Brad

[Kionon]

I've done freelance work here and there. And done video editing work for a few companies I've worked for. I don't really have any copies to show to anyone because the videos are all confidential, and the freelance work I didn't retain any rights to the material and since have lost my masters...

I have been planning some music videos that I would like to shoot in the future. When I have time and a working camera. Been wanting to put together a demo reel as well.

Yeah, I've also worked for clients who told me I couldn't use any of their footage for my demo reel and that they retained all the rights to them.

People in the industry are anal bastards, I tell you.

This is why I don't have a demo reel. My political ads were all like that, and the masters for my other work are on SVHS tape and probably buried somewhere in a closet at the TV Station.

[Niotex]

I've obviously been interested in the industry for a while.

I've done some small things here and there. Ranging from shooting short films and music video's in college. To composting shots for music video's for a small production company around here. I've helped Johnathan Reeds [Metro] with a few commercial's he's worked on. I have in the past had an opportunity to take up a internship at MTV Netherlands but had to turn that down. Currently waiting to hear back from another production house.

Everything I used to have I've gotten rid of purely because I wasn't satisfied with it myself. Which looking back was really stupid. I'll check around with some people from college if they still have some of our work up.

Most people flock to editing but I myself am vastly more interested in composting. So that is what I'm hoping to expand on as apposed to what I've done with my past educational institutes.

[Castor Troy]

I've obviously been interested in the industry for a while.

I've done some small things here and there. Ranging from shooting short films and music video's in college. To composting shots for music video's for a small production company around here. I've helped Johnathan Reeds [Metro] with a few commercial's he's worked on. I have in the past had an opportunity to take up a internship at MTV Netherlands but had to turn that down. Currently waiting to hear back from another production house.

Everything I used to have I've gotten rid of purely because I wasn't satisfied with it myself. Which looking back was really stupid. I'll check around with some people from college if they still have some of our work up.

Most people flock to editing but I myself am vastly more interested in composting. So that is what I'm hoping to expand on as apposed to what I've done with my past educational institutes.

We talked about this at AX, and I honestly think you'll get more money in compositioning work. It's actually hard to impress clients with standard editing, which is why people in the industry actually love amvs and original composite work.

[Kionon]

This is true, as much as it sucks (especially now) the TV station manager was pretty impressed in 2001 when I showed him Utena (Story of a Girl). It was just straight cuts, and the quality is crap (lots of beginner mistakes), but it showed the ability to do something "outside of the box." He taught me a lot of what I know, and was a great mentor in general.

He's now a baptist preacher, of all things, and we keep in touch. I send him my new videos.

[ngsilver]

My grandfather wont stop bugging me to walk up to the movie companies that are moving into the area and seeing if I can find a job doing editing, composting, or whatever video type work that they need. I haven't done a lot of research on the studios, but I doubt any of them are going to do said work in the area, or very little. Either way though, I'm interested I just don't know if I really want to do this for a living. It's fun, I enjoy it, and I feel great that members of my family who don't like anime in general enjoy my work and feel I could do it for real, I just don't know if I want to take that plunge entirely yet. That and if I made a demo reel right now all I'd have to put on it is my AMVs and a few LAMVs. From what I remember in talks about demo reels with others you really should have more then just that.

If only my friends who are into filming weren't so flaky and distrusting of me using their equipment...