feedback on shooter resume

Jack Daniel Stanley

Jack Daniel Stanley

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Posting here since there's so much more traffic than in the business/networking section.

I need to try to get some of these $50 - $200 per day shooter gigs on Craig's List, Productionhub.com, Mandy.com, etc. for DVX shooters and I'm just hoping to nab a few of those. Am I crazy to think I could get these gigs? I haven't done much.

Don't have a demo reel, just going to link people to ODD SQUAD and SHED (links in sig now) once I get them both up on my webpage, which needs cleaning up as well.

Anyway, all feedback will be greatly appreciated … do's/don'ts, how to embellish within reason, what section should come where, etc. It’s just formatted in plain text like this for ease of email/posting to boards.

Remember I’m selling myself with this thing, in other words ... tryiing to look cool ... so hope you don’t think I’m blowing my own horn just for you guys, which would be silly because I haven’t done crap, and you guys know better :thumbsup:


JACK DANIEL STANLEY
Digital 24 fps film-look & Video Cinematographer/DP/Camera Operator
Writer, Director, Editor, Composer
jack@frenchquarterfeatures.com
http://frenchquarterfeatures.com

AWARDS
- two time award winner in DVXuser Film Fest
- ranked in the top three in all contests entered
REFERENCES
(go here)

INDUSTRIAL
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NORDSTROM.COM’S MOST WANTED
Nordstrom.com / Live Film
Writer, Director, DP, Editor

EVENT
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BEAT DOWN ON THE BAYOU (UFC ranked sporting event)
Blue Rabbit Productions
Camera Operator (Ringside/In Ring)

SHORT
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The ODD Squad (2nd Place DVXuser Fest 2006)
French Quarter Features in Exile
DP, Writer, Director, Editor
(DVX100a with 35mm adaptor, anamorphic adaptor, century wide-angle, stock lenses)

SHED (2nd Place DVXuser Fest 2005)
French Quarter Features
DP, Writer, Director, Editor, Composer
(DVX100a with anamorphic adaptor lens)

NOIRLEANS (non competition / top 3 ranked / 4.5 of 5 stars judges panel, Filmerica Challenge 2005)
French Quarter Features
DP, Writer, Director, Editor, Composer
(DVX100a with anamorphic adaptor, century wide-angle, stock lenses)

THE FINGER
Live Film
Co-Writer, Co-Director, Editor
(16mm film)

FEATURETTTE
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THE LESSON
Live Film / Center for Advanced Research in the Humanities
Co-Writer, DP, Director

GEAR
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DVX100A, 35mm Shallow Depth of Field Lens Package, Wide Angle lens, Anamorphic lens, Steadicam (Smoothshooter), Track Dolly, fig rig, Sennheiser wireless lavs, shotgun mic, wireless boom, indie light kit, on camera light kit
 
like i said no reel

no time to edit one in the next month or so, so I'm just gonna link to ODD Squad and SHED, since I gotta get mysefl out there.

unless ... Hey Briceman ... wanna put my reel together for me?
 
Looks great. I don't have nearly as much experience but have gotten paying gigs here in Chicago (way smaller market, I know). I think you'll definitely get some work.

I didn't click on the link, but I'm assuming Denzel Washington is on your reference list, right?
 
Jack Daniel Stanley said:
like i said no reel

no time to edit one in the next month or so, so I'm just gonna link to ODD Squad and SHED, since I gotta get mysefl out there.

unless ... Hey Briceman ... wanna put my reel together for me?
Click to expand...

Jack... I can throw something together for ya! If you can get me the footage.
 
dustino said:
Looks great. I don't have nearly as much experience but have gotten paying gigs here in Chicago (way smaller market, I know). I think you'll definitely get some work.

I didn't click on the link, but I'm assuming Denzel Washington is on your reference list, right?
Click to expand...

lol not quite.

the beatdown on the bayou thing was in louisiana ... so waaay smaller Markert than Chicago. And the Nordstrom.com thing was in Seattle when I was a mind slave at Nordstrom.com. I was actually just a phone order taker but was chummy with my team leader who pulled me in the meeting to brainstorm their quarterly awards ceremony and I had a canon ultura (single chip) and they were like ooohhh, ahhhh and I shot this thing for them - so this was no big gig either.

Everything else was a project I initiated and "The Lesson" was never coompleted.

I did forget a recent gig doing a promotional video for an acting school though --- grrrr have to go back to that and edit it as I have already been paid.
 
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