Let's Ride - ID# 431
Barrington
School Promotion
Entry Description
Preseason promotional video for the football team. Jimmy Doles filmed and edited the entire project
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Recent Teacher Comments
- 4/23 1:01 pm - The editing is great! I liked the use of images at the beginning and the establishing shots of the field and crowd. Nice mix-in of natural audio. Some noticably shaky footage where a form of stabilization would have been helpful. Great promo video!
- 4/18 11:28 am - STORY: You create a great story using footage of crowds and even brief narration. You build-up to the shots towards the end of the video! SOUND: The soundtrack you have for this video really works well to create that hype feeling. One thing I wish we could hear is some of the audio (faint) from your b-roll (crowd cheering, teammates talking). Like at 0:34, 0:43, 0:47. CAMERA: You use a wide variety of camera shots and angles that demonstrate skill and creativity. Just a few things, your shot at 0:25 is overexposed. It's a great shot, but make sure when filming your whites aren’t too bright. There is also a small speck just to the left of the flag. Make sure that you always clean your lenses before filming so you can get nice clear shots! At 0:26 and 0:28, I would film these shots on a tripod. The shakiness does add to that feeling of excitement, but it does feel just a little too shaky for this kind of shot. We are only looking at a building so do we need the handheld camera here? LIGHTING: Great use of lighting, especially with the end of your video! CIt definitely creates that stylized video and adds to the mood and hype of your video! EDITING: Great job starting your video off on the field with the drone shot. This really does establish where we are. The one thing that I will note about this shot is that to me, it made it seem like it was going to be a video about lacrosse and not football because of the player on the field during this shot. Just something to keep in mind. Great job cutting on the beat of the song, especially towards the end. As the song intensifies, your edits get more intense which adds to the overall excitement! Great dramatic ending as well with the text on screen!
- 2/29 9:00 pm - Love the build-up of the music and the fade to black and then the team going up the stairs and all of the camera work on their picture day. Nice job taking advantage of that day to do more film work.
Judge 1
Positives: Fast editing at the beginning really caught my attention Coach narrative at the beginning showing empty stadium helped to build the hype Great shots of team in preparation with lighting effects
Improvements: Better audio on coach's comments to team Connection at the end to on field action to wrap it up
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Judge 3
Positives: The photo montage at the start of your promo looks great. It's a dynamic approach that instantly involves your audience with the promo. The overall edit is very effective. You incorporated a number of interesting shots that are utilized to build interest in the team as well as demonstrating the involvement and support of the fans
Improvements: Here are a couple of suggestions that could make this project even better. Look at the footage at 0:13. It's a nice shot. But it has lost quality from scaling it up too much. You can effectively scale an image to 110-% to 115% without much quality loss. If you have to go beyond that it's better to find a different shot that doesn't need to be scaled or just reshoot it (if possible). Most of the camera work was hand-held. Some of it is a little too bumpy. While shooting hand-help video, it's important to try to smooth your camera movements. Or, depending on your editing software, there are motion smoothing plugins that come with some of them like Adobe Premier Pro and After Effects. Using any of those techniques will instantly give you a much more professional look.
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