Best Showreels
I am currently pulling my first showreel together and getting lots of conflicting advice (overall a sort of good thing!) and was wondering if anyone here could point me to some truly outstanding showreels that I can benchmark against.
Secondly, what is the general opinion on showreel length? Most I see here are around 3-4mins but a casting director I spoke to last week told me 1-1.30 is the ideal length, anything longer is waste of time.
Thanks in advance!
Alan
No Dan, I suppose I was using a preference for hand written letter writing as an extreme example of 'traditionalism' - I don't think it's the norm - though I *do* know of at least one actor of my acquaintance (and a young one) who was particularly well thought of by a certain artistic director because he had taken the time to pen him a hand written introductory letter, which reminded him favourably of 'older standards' (and, yes, he was then cast on the basis of it...and his audition). So, a general over emphasis founded on a truth!
Thanks so much to you all - some wonderful advise here that I shall take to heart and hopefully utilize to make a great showreel :-)
Thanks again!
Alan
Lee: I do actually remember one handwritten letter amongst the many we discarded. It was written in copperplate and we all gathered round to look at it because it was so beautiful. I think he was also auditioned as a result of it but don't think he ever got a part.
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