How To Get Footage For A Demo Reel

Explore the categories:

HAWT NEWS:

ENROLL IN OUR FREE ACTING CAREER Course SEE MORE ->

After yous've worked and then hard to volume that job and delivered a flawless functioning on set, you're gonna desire that footage! If non for your demo reel, at least for the memories!

Getting your footage isn't ever like shooting fish in a barrel. No matter your situation, I promise I can assistance you here.

PLANNING AHEAD

The best way to set yourself upward for footage success is to plan ahead.

While on fix: if you have another day player working with you lot, enquire if they'd like to divide an aircheck with y'all and exchange information. No sense in 2 people paying to rails down footage.
Prepare a reminder in your phone for when y'all guess the show will air. You tin do this by referencing the episode number compared to which episode is currently airing.
Before your episode arrogance, order an Hard disk drive aircheck. I dear using Joe's Reels because he'southward quick, reliable, and reasonably priced!

WHOOPS You lot MISSED IT!

If your episode has already aired, but it'south not still for auction on itunes or something similar, you tin however get an aircheck! Call Joe, he'll claw you up!

HOW TO GET YOUR FOOTAGE IF IT'S STREAMING ONLINE

If you actually need it ASAP, you can buy a screen recording software similar Screenflow to record the screen & internal monitor sound. (annotation: Screenflow doesn't piece of work on iTunes. I've used it with Netflix, Xfinity, & Amazon. I oasis't tried Hulu)

HOW TO GET FOOTAGE OFF YOUR DVR

If you're reasonably tech-savvy, you lot can buy a video capture cablevision like this one to pull the footage from your DVR to your computer. There are plenty of walkthrough videos on Youtube to walk you through grabbing your footage with this lil' guy!

HOW TO RIP FOOTAGE FROM ITUNES

If your footage is only available on Itunes, here's my hack…

Purchase and download episode from iTunes
Strip protection past using a program called TunesKit for Mac
If the remaining video has an echo, you can run information technology through the iSkysoft Video Converter.
Presto!

HOW TO DOWNLOAD YOUR FOOTAGE FROM YOUTUBE OR ISPOT.Television set

I found this great site to download commercials from Youtube AND ispot.tv. Information technology worked great for me. However, you always download from sites like this at your own gamble.

IF You lot'VE BEEN WAITING FOR FOOTAGE FROM A FILM FOREVER!

This happens a lot with low upkeep films. No one is trying to mess with you merely sometimes editing is delayed considering of budget problems.

Give your contact (director/producer/creator) a little leeway. If information technology'south gone on for too dang long, you can asking that they just transport you one un-polished scene for you to "give to your agent."

The content creator may not realize that simply that tiny scene would be helpful, so let them know. And assure them yous will not share it for public viewing.

YOU CAN'T SEEM TO Find THE EPISODE Ever/YOU WERE Cut/IT NEVER AIRED

Oof, this one hurts. You're likely out of luck but SOMETIMES, if you tin rails downwardly someone in production, they might get you a copy of your scenes. I've never had luck with this but some people have.

I hope this post helps you rail down that footage of your stellar performance. Got any tricks we should add? Let us know in the comments!

-Tristen