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Maine East High School Cheerleading

Maine East

Feature Story

Entry Description

This feature offers a preview of the 2013-2014 Blue Demon cheerleading squad!

Judge 1

Positives: great camera shots interviews good

Improvements: inconsistent (overexposed) lighting and uneven sound quality

Judge 2

Positives: Good interview subjects who provided good insight into their goals and motivations. Good camera work that helped capture the hard work and teamwork involved for the cheering squad.

Improvements: When a piece is predominantly voice-over with footage helping to tell the story, it's best to get as clean an audio track as possible. Of course, it is difficult to get sound bites in a working gym with lots of activity and noise levels, so it's best to capture those interviews at quieter times or in a smaller venue where echo and reverberations don't mess with the sound quality. Not sure if we saw the entire piece, but ending with a complete cheer on the field (rather than in rehearsal) might provide better closure, rather than ending with practice session and audio that ends with the beginning of another cheer (ie. "...eight. One..two.")

Judge 3

Positives: Great selection of B-roll. Good camera work. Edited really well and at a great pace

Improvements: Audio levels could have been more consistent during interview transitions A lot of natural background sound during the interviews in gym. Maybe selecting a location that was a little further away gym activity would have helped.