Neuqua Valley Boys Basketball - ID# 124
Neuqua Valley
School Promotion
Entry Description
This is a school promotion for our boys basketball team. We shot and edited this promotion as a preview for their season.
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- 4/23 12:42 pm - Good pacing throughout the edit, although more natural audio mixed would have been a nice touch. Great job including different members of the team. The camera could have been more stable at times either during shooting or in post. Seems to be a popular song choice this year!
- 4/17 11:28 am - STORY: I think you did a great job showcasing your basketball team. This definitely does feel like a hype video. SOUND: Great use of sound at 1:05 and having the music cut out! You did a great job choosing an upbeat song that brings a lot of energy to your video. CAMERA: You use a variety of camera shots and angles. I think a lot of them could have been cleaned up. Specifically with the shakiness. Shakiness is good here and there but a handful of your shots get way too shaky which takes you out of the video (0:06 - the three shots here are all shaky, 0:08). Now there are times where shakiness works like at 0:28 and 0:31. At 0:35, this is also slightly shaky but there is so much headroom here at the top of the frame. Headroom is the space between a subject’s head and the top of the frame. Think of the rule of thirds here. You would probably want the athletes heads at the top horizontal line of the rule of thirds in this shot. You use a lot of clips in slow motion which is great, however your slow motion clips are all choppy (0:13, 0:15, 0:16, 0:19, 0:21, 0:23). In order for slow motion to be smooth you need to pay attention to your frame rate. Footage that was not shot at the correct frame rate will look choppy. For slow motion, you want to aim for at least 60 frames per second (fps) or higher. Your shutter speed should then be double what your frame rate is. So if you’re shooting at 60 fps your shutter speed should be 1/120. If you shoot at 120 fps your shutter speed should be 1/240. High frame rate and double shutter speed = smooth slow motion! Something to keep in mind is to shoot for your edit. If you know you want to use slow motion for a video, have a camera dedicated to shooting at a higher frame rate, or at least plan to switch settings on your camera at some point. LIGHTING: Lights in the gym are absolutely terrible everywhere. And it’s difficult to get it right. You have a number of clips that are dark and underexposed (0:19, 0:38, 0:44, 0:58). White balance in gyms is also difficult to get right. The first two shots at 0:00 to 0:01 are cooler than your shot at 0:35 which is a lot warmer. Something to look out for. If using multiple cameras, make sure the white balance is consistent. EDITING: Great opening sequence from 0:00 to 0:13. You did a really great job here keeping your cut on the beat of the song. Again, under camera I mentioned that some shots are shaky. Especially with your opening sequence (0:00 - 0:13) I would recommend using more stable shots so that it’s easier to process what is actually being shown on screen. At 0:37 I like the idea you had here editing back and forth between two clips but I’m not sure it works. I think if you really wanted this to work, you use one clip that doesn’t really have much movement (like a team huddling together). Both of the clips you have currently have either people getting up and moving and a player shooting a basketball into the hoop.
- 2/29 8:52 pm - Love the sounds of the squeaks of the gym shoes, the film work and the clarity. Great job!
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