During our trip to London we visited Mainframe, a motion graphics company that produces lots of different work but focussing mainly on adverts for tv. They were situated on the fifth floor and once we entered we were met by Adam Jenns who proceeded to show us round the studio, they had a few different rooms where people seemed to be working in groups on different projects which I liked the idea of and also he said there was a room where mainly the freelance artists work which i thought was interseting, because i wondered whether they wanted to work on their own as apposed to working with the other staff, or whether the directors had kind of just put them there.
We moved on to a little booth (Pictured above, which wasnt really set up for a big group like us- because we were quite crammed in!) where Adam showed us the Showreels they currently send out, which I was very impressed by, although I had already seen some of there work before we went, there was a few new projects that he showed us like the Nickolodeon rebrand which was excellent! very fast paced and bright just as the rest of ther showreel was. Adam seemed like a very down to earth guy and explained to us about contacting companies and getting our work seen, and that alot of people might not even look at your work or e-mail if they get sent alot all the time. He advised just to keep it short and simple, maybe have our portfolio in blog form with our most recent work at the top, which I was very pleased with because just before we went to London I had created a blog form portfolio to show my work. He also mentioned to keep your showreels short because we are graduates we wont have much work to show so no point repeating clips of the same projects as it will get boring!
I think his advice was very good and I will definetaley keep his words in mind when producing my own showreel.
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