Selina Odum
10 Oct 2025
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Length, structure, whether to have a slate at the front. Advice online is all from about 2015.
Tools & Money
What does a reel look like in 2026?
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Helena Duplessis
10 Oct 2025
Ninety seconds to two minutes, best thing first, no montage, no music bed, no title card with your name and agency logo for eight seconds.
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Delphine Aubert
12 Oct 2025
Actually the more common failure now is length. I have seen four minute reels this year. Nobody watches four minutes.
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Terrance Whitlow
14 Oct 2025
Individual scene clips separate from the reel matter more than they did. Casting increasingly wants to see one scene of you doing the thing, not a survey.
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Reeva Bhandari
15 Oct 2025
Your face should be on screen within three seconds and you should be speaking within eight.
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Yvette Brossard
16 Oct 2025
If your best work is thirty seconds long, your reel is thirty seconds long. That is a strong reel, not a short one.
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