Demo Reel with Adobe Premiere: Create an Impactful Portfolio
The search for inspiration
A course by Thomaz Bastos , Video Editor
About the video: The search for inspiration
Overview
“In this class, I'll tell you about my pre-production and inspiration-seeking process and what's behind my creative process.”
In this video lesson Thomaz Bastos addresses the topic: The search for inspiration, which is part of the Domestika online course: Demo Reel with Adobe Premiere: Create an Impactful Portfolio. Learn to tell the story of your career through a creative film and promote your work in an attractive way.
Partial transcription of the video
“The search for inspiration In this class I'm going to talk about the search for inspiration. The inspiration search process is the most important process. of all the processes that exist to assemble a demo reel. It's in pre-production that I usually spend most of my time. When I start doing a demo reel, I usually close off all distractions, anything that takes my attention, and focus only on the demo reel. So I spend days, or even a week, looking, searching for references, separating the good references, separating things I don't like. Usually when I get the demo reel, I usually listen to a...”
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Course summary for: Demo Reel with Adobe Premiere: Create an Impactful Portfolio
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Premiere -
Areas
Audiovisual Production, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Photography Post-production, Portfolio Development, Script, Video, Video Editing

Thomaz Bastos
A course by Thomaz Bastos
Thomaz Bastos is a Brazilian film editor based in São Paulo. He trained in multimedia design at the Billy Blue College of Design and Swinburne University in Sydney, Australia where he lived for seven years. He began his audiovisual career as an editor for a large production company where he worked on projects for important television stations including GNT, Canal BIS, and SONY.
He currently works as a freelancer and has made commercials for names like Red Bull, Mercedes-Benz, Converse All Star, Fox Sports, Shell, and O Boticário, as well as collaborated on two winning projects at the Cannes Film Festival: HP and Nosferatu.
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