Demo (music)
A demo recording (also: demo tape, Demo Tape, demo tape or short demo, show reel; abbreviation demonstration recording) is in the music and film industry the term for a collection of work samples that are produced by musicians or actors for music producers, film producers or record companies.
Purpose
Main purpose is the audible or visual presentation of an artist or a piece of music as a pattern. During demonstrations by musicians often pure audio recordings of manufactured in a simple technical level pieces of music are, show reels of actors usually show clips of film and television productions in which the persons concerned were involved. They are sent for demonstration purposes to agents, promoters, press and record companies or presented on the Internet, to give the recipient an idea of skills, style and assignment of an artist.
Where earlier music cassettes, audio CDs and VHS tapes dominated mainly MP3s, DVDs and Internet video are used nowadays.
Music Industry
Often, composer or lyricist can make from their new works created demos to give a music publisher or record company an idea of how their work is marketable. For this purpose, they can even record their song or let a demo in the studio with studio musicians make. Even the limited tonal quality of the home recorded compositions gives a clear idea to allow a decision on the suitability of a studio production and subsequent marketing. Even in areas on the edge of mainstream music play demos a significant role, as many bands do not have the financial resources to be incorporated into studios entire albums, and instead often publish demos, which can also be reached cult status. Demos from bands who gain fame later, often reach a considerable value to collectors.
As a promotional demo a demo is called, which is taken despite the presence of a record deal, the record company to provide in advance an audio sample available. The term "promotion" is confusing, as well as a demo of a band that does not have a contract that is used for promotional purposes. Authors who have a contract with a music publisher, make this promotional demos available so that the publisher can audition new pieces interested artist or their producers. In various well-known artists such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen have come over this way recordings of pieces in circulation contained on any regularly released album. For this reason, those bootlegs are very controversial among collectors. As The Bootleg Series Vol 9 - The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 was released an album of demo recordings of Dylan, which he had prepared for his first two publishers Leeds Music and M. Witmark & Sons between 1962 and 1964 in October 2010. In this way, get demo recordings of exception to the interested public, because generally they circulate only in the music industry and are not intended for publication.
Film and Television
For an actor who wants to apply for film and television productions or acting or casting agencies, part of a recent demonstration for industry-standard application material. In this context, one usually speaks of showreels ( engl. "show" ( exhibition, show ) and " reel" ( roll of film, tape ) ). In terms of content showreels appealing treated collagen of many, mostly of short scenes from the production range.
As so-called house role are demos own presentation of film production companies or advertising agencies that thus publish their previous work in the form of short film - related videos for a period of 2-10 minutes on DVD or the Internet.