Showreel

Along with the website we needed to create a showreel which would display our best work.

I tried to find as many research books as I could but I soon found that there were little or no dedicated books on the subject, there were a few books I found that had a chapter or so that were helpful but no books dealt with the subject alone. The best resources I found were online resources such as tutorials and art websites that had discussions on the subject.

I was more nervous about the showreel part than the website as I was not sure that I had enough exemplary work to display on a showreel and as Darkin (2010) writes "If you are unsure if you have enough work to put in a showreel, then maybe you should reconsider if you are ready enough to make one" [online, ComputerArts]. However I felt that perhaps, I was just too crtical of my own work as several other people including people on forums felt that my work was good enough to use in a showreel. I also had to remember that my showreel could be updated at a later date when I added more work. Jordan (2007) agrees and explains that a good showreel needs to be updated as often as possible when material of a higher quality or more relevance is completed (p154).