The new reel....music or dialogue?

[Peter Abraham]

Incidentally both are very tall, and both drive vehicles that run on vegetable oil. Interesting.

 

I'm six foot two and drive a 1995 diesel Suburban. The veggie conversion kit is in the garden shed, awaiting two or three days off to take it to the Man to have it installed. Interesting indeed. Clearly a correlation.

 

This thread is great, I must say. Sucks, to edit your own reel. Sucks more to love your reel and have someone eviscerate it. Definitely something we all should have to sit through. I went both ways. Sometimes I'd use a bed of music, sometimes the real tracks/dialogue.

 

I did cut an early demo reel to the "White Rock" track by Rick Wakeman from the LP of that same name. A Winter Olympics films soundtrack. ( Can't remember WHICH Olympics. God, my brain ). The music is...frantic, lyrical, fluid, like listening to a musical avalange of speed and prodigious skill. No clue where that reel is.

 

Although the last reel I cut was 10 years ago, I would gladly sit in to a session with the Guild, and have it critiqued. Always time to learn, and listen to the creative reactions of my peers and betters.

 

Charles, I saw a few moments of the premiere as wife was watching it. I saw a stellar long shot, whip pans, from street into interior. Dave, eh? God.... just lovely. Energetic without being sloppy in any way.

 

Humbling. :)

 

Peter Abraham

New York