For this reel, our client, Jason Scott Campbell, came to us with a couple of different scenes. One was a movie he had recently completed with both a trailer and a number of select scenes.

Jason had a lot of footage but it was impossible to incorporate it all into one reel because it would be too long. We came up with the idea to incorporate a scene from the film he had just finished and have it lead directly into the already edited trailer. It came out very nicely because it's intense and grabs the viewer's attention.

We then took the best scene from another film Jason had worked in... a scene that was the complete opposite of the other. It was also trimmed down in certain areas because the original was a bit too slow.

Even though Jason has only two different scenes in his reel, they showcase some of his best work and demonstrate a tremendous amount of range in under 4 minutes.

Alberto came to us with a whole slew of footage. It was all quite good, but the scenes themselves were too long. Alberto really wanted to showcase his versatility as an actor by incorporating all the scenes. Therefore the only solution was to reedit most of the scenes. Examples of how some of the scenes were reedited can be found on the Reedited Scenes page.

We went ahead and created a brief montage to immediately show the viewer what was to be expected. We don't usually do excessive montages because in general with the right music and flashy editing one could make a piece of dog shit look fun and exiting. In this case we use the montage only to open the reel with a bang and within a matter of seconds quickly show the viewer what is to be expected.

Alberto added this reel to his website where he is now able to immediately showcase his talents to anyone, anytime.

In this reel our client, Chaz Mena, needed to have a speed reel put together. Chaz had a lot of great footage but needed it to be under 2 min 30 secs.

Looking at Chaz Mena's footage, it was all great stuff and it was so diverse that we decided it wouldn't do Chaz justice if we didn't try to fit it all in. Therefore, we recut and trimmed every scene (some examples can be seen in the reediting section) so that there was just enough time to establish scene, character and Chaz's talents. Additionally, the order of the footage was crucial.

First we displayed his headshot (no montage) and went right to a Law and Order clip to immediately establish credibility. Once that scene finishes we moved to footage from a film where Chaz plays a completely different type of character. We then went back to another Law and Order scene where Chaz plays yet another very different character. As the reel goes on, we constantly surprise the viewer with bold and highly diverse scenes.

The end result is a solid representation of Chaz's talents and versatility that leaves the audience wanting to see more and, even more so, wanting to see Chaz in their casting office.

In this reel our client, Jessica Myhr, wanted to showcase the sultry characters that she usually auditions for as well as something quick that she could present to agents and casting directors.

From her generous collection of scenes, we chose those with the best production values. Jessica has a great headshot so we went ahead and used that as the opening shot.

We used the network soap first so agents could see that she has already worked professionally. We then we put in three short clips from independent films that we reedited for maximum impact and finished it up nicely with another scene from the network soap.

Jessica has since gotten a lot of interviews with agents due to this reel.

Our client, David McDonald, had mostly done theater work when he came to us to create his demo reel. However, he had just received a copies of a short film he had completed and an American Masters special on PBS where he plays Thomas Jefferson.

Without having a lot of footage, we wanted to really showcase what was there. The reel starts with a quick montage showing David's different looks with an upbeat score. We then created a trailer from the short film. This is due to the fact that a lot of the movie is fantastical and contains very few scenes with extended dialogue. We built the trailer from scratch and added music effects, etc.

We then shortened all of the dialogue scenes in order to feature David more prominently. For the final scene where David plays Thomas Jefferson, we added a dark score to give the scene a more dramatic tone.

Even though David had only two shows from which to create his reel, we were able to give it a diverse and rich feel by use of creative editing.

Our client, Chelsea, came to us with a ton of footage. All of her scenes featured strong acting and spoke for themselves, so we didn't feel the need to do anything special presentation wise.

However, after choosing down the strongest pieces, some of them were too long or featured other actors too much. Therefore, all of the chosen scenes were reedited. Examples of how some of the scenes were reedited can be found on the Reedited Scenes page.

Now Chelsea has a professional reel that showcases her talent in an effective and professional manner.

For this project our client, Celeste Moratti, needed both an Italian and English reel. She had a lot of footage that was all good. However, some of it required heavy editing to keep the reel moving.

Celeste was great to work with because she really knew what she wanted in each reel. This gave us more time to edit down some scenes which allowed the reels to really flow.