STUNT EDUCATION
Welcome to the Stunt Education Blog! Below are the highest viewed blogs of 2019. Do check back weekly for Educational Content and train your brain! Our content will focus on Stunt & Action Film Making! We will be bringing you insights from STUNT MASTERS & EMMY AWARD WINNERS.
SHOW REEL EDITING and SUBMISSION TIPS - PART 1
Many stunt performers, be it new or established, still make many errors, when they present their reel to coordinators, action directors or producers. Reel 'Elevator Pitches', can cast you in a good light, or a bad light. Below are a few tips in this quick, 2 Part Reel Submission Series brought to you by Stunt Education, from the experience of Award Winning Stunt Coordinator, Andy Armstrong. (click here to view resume)
WHAT NOT TO DO:
- DO NOT MAKE YOUR REEL TOO LONG!
- With the hundreds, if not THOUSANDS of reels people submit for every show, no stunt coordinator, nor any member of the casting personnel, has the time to watch EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM, let alone, watch every single reel in FULL! To think that they will, is naïve. Do the math, do not delude yourself and be cognizant (aware) of the casting personnel's time!
Now, if you are up for a job, one that few are up for, still keep this in mind and submit a shorter reel. However, you may also accompany it with...
STUNT EDUCATION - $9 MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION
There is so much to learn and this is only the beginning. We have many Courses, from many Teachers, already in the Queue. "If you do not see the value in spending money to educate oneself on the basics of many subjects in our industry, you're someone who just DOESN'T get it. These same types will spend many times more money on another pair of shoes they don't need, or drinks at a bar every weekend, cloths they don't use more than once, but NOT one's Career Education? I simply do not understand that way of thinking. There are many backwards people in the world, DON'T LET YOU BE ONE OF THEM. Knowledge is Power." - Andy Armstrong
