The Standard | HF Basketball | - ID# 201
Homewood-Flossmoor
School Promotion
Entry Description
School promotion for the number one ranked team in the state of Illinois!
Copyright Info
Recent Teacher Comments
- 4/25 7:59 pm - STORY: I think you do a great job showcasing a lot of the gameplay in your video. We don’t really get that personal story from the basketball players themselves as we don’t see them up close (except for the beginning). SOUND: I appreciate you including the sounds from your clips, however, we hear a lot of the cuts in between them all. You want to try and avoid that by using J and L cuts. This is where you layer your audio track on different tracks. You then extend the beginning and ends of each track so that they blend into each other. Sometimes these J and L cuts may not work depending on when your audio starts and ends. This technique does help blend and hide those cuts and it will amplify your video even more! CAMERA: You include a lot of gameplay which is great! However, I think it would be nice to see more of those close ups we see at the beginning of your video. LIGHTING: Make sure that you pay attention to white balance. Lighting in gyms is actually quite terrible, but you can get it right. Your clip at 0:26 is so much more yellow than the clip after it. Make sure that if using multiple cameras, your white balance is consistent. If you find your white balance changes often, it could be as simple as changing the white balance in post so that it matches to each clip. EDITING: I think your pacing doesn’t quite match. Basketball is a fast sport so you probably want to make quick cuts. Your song also has a fast beat, so you want to cut to the beat of that as well. For example, after the player makes the basket at 0:19, cut the clip at 0:20 on the beat. You hold on a lot of your shots for too long. One thing I wasn’t quite sure of is the transition from black and white to color. Is there significance there? Is it related to the people we see in the close ups during that time? Also, what was your intention with the black frame at 0:16? Since it’s only done once, it does feel like a mistake. I’m assuming it was to go along with the music. If you are going to have a black frame for separation make sure to include it in your video elsewhere.
Judge 1
Positives:
Improvements:
Judge 2
Positives:
Improvements:
Judge 3
Positives:
Improvements:
Judge 4
Positives:
Improvements:
Judge 5
Positives:
Improvements: