I'm trying to make my reel to send to agents. I'm new so I'm filming scenes from movies that fit me. How many scenes should I include in a 1-2 minute reel? 3? 4? 5?
Also any advice from anyone who has done they're reel would help alot. Thank you.

My personal opinion is that 3 to 5 scenes would be good, and 2-3 minutes for length. One minute is pretty short, and at least 3 scenes will give them some diverse material to consider. Try to put your best stuff first....if they are immediately impressed, they'll watch several minutes of you in many cases. If the first scene is weak, they may not go any farther. But as I've often tried to point out on this message board, everyone has different experiences and every person looking at reels has their own ideas about what they want....so, unfortunately, that means a lot of this is trial and error, i.e. 'a craps shoot'. Follow your instincts, and best of luck!

Rather than think in number of scenes, think of a television promo for a show.

A reel is essentially a commercial for you. Just as the people producing promos for TV shows grab the hottest, most provocative scenes (even when the actual show often turns out to glide right by them), you want to show just enough of each of your best scenes to make them wait for more, then, hit them with the next. Of course, the best stuff at the start, since in most cases you'll be lucky if they even watch that much, but certainly no more than 3 minutes (I'd vote for 2 myself).

If you can do that in 3 scenes (doubtful), great. If you can use 10 clips and make every one count (as opposed to having the result be a little frantic), also great.

If you use any number of scenes - 2 or 20 - and they leave the viewer not wanting to watch (either because it's too slow or it's too frenetic), not so great.

Think commercial: quick, coherent and punchy.