Anyone involved in producing film or video for more than 5 minutes should beaware that sound makes up (at least) 50% of your final product. Bad soundon a fantastically shot and directed piece of film will make the production lookamateurish. It may be possible to attach a radio mic to an interviewee, click thecamera’s audio setting to ‘auto’ and hope for the best, but you will never achievegood results if you are concentrating on two technical jobs at the same time andinevitably – the sound will be the one to suffer. If you want to avoid common pitfallssuch as wind noise, clipping, poor signal-to-noise ratio, knocks and clunks on yourradio mic, too thin, too bassy, too echoey, voice dropping out as soon as your subjectturns his head, and actually end up with a sound recording that compliments thequality of the picture, hire a recordist. (For more ranting please join my course!)
Showreel
To be honest, showreels don’t work too well for soundies because online soundreels will be affected by manipulation in post-production, inferior encoding and your computer’s speakers. However, I often get asked by producers to see a reel, so I’ve uploaded one anyway. Please see the My Work page for more examples.