SonicPond can provide you with a professional, fully edited showreel. We can convert your material from video, DVD, mini DV, and edit your clips digitally to provide you with a dynamic, 3-5 minute showreel that promotes you to the full.

The format for the showreel will usually consist of a 30-45 second fast paced montage of the best shots and moments from your scenes, cut together under music of your choice. This will then usually be followed by 2-4 scenes, and finally your contact details and headshot(s) to finish off the reel. Any material provided on older video can be cleaned and spruced using computer technology in order to bring it closer to the quality of your DVD material. (see below). All graphics, effects, transitions, and even a custom built DVD motion menu are included as standard.

The finished product will be provided for you on DVD (or video) as necessary, including the format most suitable for inclusion on your Spotlight page. We can also provide you with your finished showreel in any digital format (AVI, WMV, MOV etc), at any resolution or bitrate, for you to include on any website for streaming. Casting Call Pro, CastNet, CastWeb and Spotlight all have specific and different requirements for the size and resolution of video, and we will tailor make any digital specification needed, for only a small extra cost, as well as assist you in painlessly uploading the files successfully. As another optional extra, if you would like us to permanently host the video on a custom built SoniPond web page, we can arrange that too, so that you can simply email agents/casting directors the link and get them straight to your showreel without any fuss.

We will keep all your showreel clips and project files permanently stored on data DVD, so you can come back and add future scenes at any time. Add any additional material to the showreel at any point in the 12 months following your session with us, and 2 hours of editing will be done absolutely free. Thereafter, editing is charged at £25/hour.

Click on the images on the right to see examples of our showreels (more )
Some video recordings can suffer in quality from poor original TV reception, poor tape quality, age, or a combination of all these factors. With modern computer techniques, many extreme flaws in video quality can be vastly improved, so that these pieces can sit happily in your showreel alongside more recent, crystal clear, DVD clips. To see examples of what is possible, see the before and after images and clips below..

Click on 'before/after' text for image comparisons, click on image for video (quicktime)
Often it is possible to edit available footage in order to change the focus of a scene, or accentuate an actors presence in a given clip. Usually, this involves trimming down unwanted cut-aways and recutting  the sound design so that we get more screentime for you, without the scene losing any shape or impact. For a striking example of what is possible, see the below clips, where the actor was able to provide extra rushes