Comments on: This is What a Director's Sizzle Reel or Mood/Tone Film Looks Like: Joe Carnahan's 'Daredevil'

By: Director Joe Carnahan Talks Creative Control and Why Too Much Money Can Be Problematic - NoFilmSchool

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:41:59 +0000

[...] and he’s always very forthcoming about his life and his career. We’ve been lucky enough to see a sizzle reel for his Daredevil project that never got off the ground, as well as another for a film called Gemini Man. Carnahan sat down with Cinefix and Director Jack [...]

By: The ‘Hunger Games’ Movie You Didn’t See: Kevin Tancharoen’s Pitch Reel - NoFilmSchool

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 19:02:12 +0000

[...] name you prefer, these pitching tools are becoming more prevalent. Recently, we posted about Joe Carnahan’s sizzle reel for Daredevil that inevitably was not the chosen vision. And of course, our own Ryan Koo shared his lookbook for [...]

By: Greg Herman

Greg Herman — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 18:31:15 +0000

Stumbled on to this announcement on IMDB, showing he is slated to direct the reboot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1598171/

By: Joe Marine

Joe Marine — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 15:33:49 +0000

Most of them never make it online because there is no reason to show them off, they are simply rough ideas of a potential vision – but yes – part of the reason has to do with not owning the rights to most (or any), of the footage.

By: Iain Anderson

Iain Anderson — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 09:06:04 +0000

If a remix project that makes heavy use of other people’s work never actually gets released, no harm done. Which is why most of these never make it to YouTube, I guess.

By: Idol-Maker

Idol-Maker — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:35:39 +0000

I love DD too, but this would’ve been INCREDIBLE. Highly stylized & specific to DD’s mythos. Damn.

By: Joe Marine

Joe Marine — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 21:02:41 +0000

I don’t know if no one cares but yes, this is how it’s done, for literally everything. These are rarely done in HD – it’s not really the quality of the video that matters, just that you can see it and hear it and get your point across.

By: FabDex

FabDex — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 14:07:19 +0000

Terrible. I would have said no after 30 seconds. This “montage” is about as professional as a fan film done by 14 year olds.

By: Michael Locke

Michael Locke — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 13:01:22 +0000

Wow. Never seen one. So you just sample like a DJ, for around 90 seconds. And this is SOP for a business pitch for most serious projects? So no one cares that you “borrow” work from The Warriors, Taxi Driver, Enter the Dragon (or was it Fists of Fury?), music by Curtis Mayfield, etc. I guess YouTube is the library for downloads, but where would you get a higher res sample (at least Blu-ray bitrate, HD)?
Love to see another piece on how someone who makes these for a living sketches out an outline, auditions samples, and why they pick what they do for each project. Fascinating post on content that the “public” never sees.

By: Wrango Davenlo

Wrango Davenlo — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:40:08 +0000

Joe Carnahans best movie was NARC. Didn’t see the grey. Im glad this got shut down.
The mere thought of superfly playing during the trailer,even for mood. Ugh.
Thanks for the post, though!

By: Joe Marine

Joe Marine — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:34:24 +0000

Thanks – yeah Joe is a pretty cool guy so I’m glad this got posted online so we could share it. I got to see a lot of these but the ones I saw were never made public. Creating these was standard operating procedure at RSA for most commercials as well the ones I got to see for the features in pre-production.

By: Ben Howling

Ben Howling — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:23:44 +0000

Awesome post, Joe. It’s things like this that keep me coming back to this site. I’ve seen mood clips before, but generally just for fashion and TV material, nothing to this extent, and hadn’t seen one for a film pitch either. Will definitely have to apply it to my own work in the future.

By: Wade Blade

Wade Blade — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:09:08 +0000

And then there’s this amazing one for Kerry Conran’s John Carter of Mars: http://vimeo.com/album/1837218/video/35852355

By: Antoine Benhini

Antoine Benhini — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 18:26:42 +0000

Thanks for sharing. This is very inspiring. I would have give him the job !

By: Lewis McGregor

Lewis McGregor — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:14:18 +0000

I’m glad it fell through.

I’m really passionate about Daredevil and it needs to be done right.

Joe Carnahan is a great director but this project wasn’t for him.