Boston Pixel + Jim Meegan // Showreel

[Digitally Pleasing]

** If you can spare an extra 30 seconds, let me ask you a quick question. Which is your most and least favorite shot in the reel? **

This showreel basically encompasses everything I've shot with my own gear since the Fall of 2009. I've got a bunch more footage I've shot with other cameras for different production companies/employers, but it's too tough to track down so I made due with what I had on my own hard drives. This is my first reel since 2006, just a few months after graduating from Emerson College. It's really nice to see how far both the technology and myself have come.

The edit is meant to be modern and cool with attitude. I want it to personify the local vibe my new production company is trying to put out. That is, present the culture and environment in New England with the awesomeness it deserves. It's a great place to live, even for those in media production.

The track is called "Living in America" by an awesome band from Worcester, Massachusetts named Dom. Look them up.

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jimmeegan.com

 

[Cassius]

It suffers from the same basic problems most reels do. It's way too long and lacks focus. I think you generally succeed in the feel you want to sell, but you should be able to do it in half the time. Otherwise your audience gets bored and you lose the energy. There are a lot of shots that don't help- the timelapse section near the middle seems repetitive, and a few of them aren't that impressive. The exterior shot of some Red Sox restaraunt or whatever that was seems pointless. The establishing shots of the field around two minutes could be cut. I won't go on, you'll need to make the descisions on that. You have reason to take pride in the work you've done and I'm sure seeing it has a strong emotional connotation with you; it doesn't with me, and your clients don't care. They want to see a showcase of what you can do, which means you need to show a clip that says 'I can do this', then move on instead of reminding them of the same things you already said earlier on. If the shot you include doesn't tell the client something new about your experience or capabilities it shouldn't be there. You have some great material in this, it just needs to focus, just like if you were writing a short screenplay.

 

[IanB]

One other comment, is that I would keep out the work with Romney, some people may be turned off about that being in your reel. I would stay away from content that is religion, or politically based. (redsox is an exception to the comment on removing religious content).

Also, you don't need 20 timelapses, just show the 'great ones' and move on. Agree with previouse poster. You want to show people what you can do, (weddings, sports, documentary work, indie films, etc..)

Ian