Examples REELS and ARTIST STATMENTS

For our final assignment you must edit a 45 second to 1 minute reel of your work as a videographer - this means all the footage you have filmed in any classes or projects. If you are low on content you may create a Director/DP reel but you must specify what you filmed and what you directed, but you must indicate your reel using titles in your reel.

FOR  YOUR VIDEOGRAPHER'S REEL: Keep in mind lots of folks have many different reels for different kinds of jobs they pitch for but for this assignment, choose your favorite shots (for their look/aesthetics) and put them together in a way that represents your style, ability to operate and move the camera, your lighting and technical skills.

In class we will talk about CINEMATOGRAPHER/VIDEOGRAPHER'S REEL as well as DIRECTOR and EDITOR REELS - there are differences!

Artist Reel from Will Wendel on Vimeo.



Annelise Moreau Reel from Annelise Moreau on Vimeo.

You are also encouraged to browse old 312 sites and see what your peers have put together. Visit the right sidebar, scroll down for pasts 312 reels. 

Additionally post a short ARTIST STATEMENT (350-500 words) with your embedded video clip, see below for some examples of reels and artist statements.

Browse blogs of previous 312 students to read their artist statements. For example: Ellen, Lauren, Mary Katherine, Austin, Tanner and Danny. Scroll down the sidebar and read more --- there are tons!

TIPS FOR WRITING AN ARTIST STATEMENT:

Here are some more tips: 

http://artistemerging.blogspot.com/2006/08/writing-artists-statement.html

http://www.artbusiness.com/artstate.html

http://www.agora-gallery.com/advice/blog/2015/05/12/how-to-write-an-artist-statement/

https://www.lightspacetime.com/newsletter/how-to-write-the-perfect-artist-statement/

http://www.mollygordon.com/resources/marketingresources/artstatemt/

http://www.cgu.edu/pages/7483.asp

Here are some examples:

http://www.jamiecsapp.com/artist-statement/

http://www.panix.com/~hamiltro/biography/statement.shtml

http://trakovskyfilm.com/film/statement.html

http://www.bpfilms.net/#!artists_statement/c22bp

http://www.elizabethbaronmovie.com/index.php/about/9

Visual References for Scene on Tuesday, April 3

We're going to have an intense game of poker-style cards for our next scene. It is a circle of high stakes players, winner take all. It's intense, dark, low-key.

The key light with be a single overhead source - an arri 650w on a c-stand.


Inspiration for camera movement - circular dolly that tracks around the table:

Overhead lighting from the interrogation scene in Spike Lee's Clockers:

The camera will track around the table (180 degree dolly move) and end up with a ms of the main character who wins. I want that person to be lit with a glowing hair light.

Visual References for class on Thurs March 29

Our scene is inspired by Black Panther and other action/crime films.

We will have a character creeping in the jungle and we see him through bits of light and shadow, inspired by this image:

We will track across the jungle darkness as he crawls like a panther then tilt up with him as the police catch him. The police lights will illuminate his face to show he has been caught.

I'm inspired by these visual references:

The challenge here is that we have to it feel like the police are there without any police cars.

Are we up for the challenge???

Anatomy of an Arri fresnel light

Group 2 Camera Movement Footage

JCM 350 Camera Movement Footage from Shelby Billman on Vimeo.

DSLR Test Footage Group 3

DSLR Test Footage Group 3 from Makena Wasserman on Vimeo.

DSLR Test Footage - Group 2

JCM350- Group 2 DSLR Test from Thomas Meason on Vimeo.