Boys' Cross Country - ID# 280
Maine South
School Promotion
Entry Description
Get hyped for the Fall 2023 Boys' Cross Country season at Maine South. Go Hawks!
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Recent Teacher Comments
- 4/23 12:48 pm - It's great to see an under-represented sport promo! Great song choice and editing throughout. You mixed in natural audio very well and picked the perfect part of the song. There is good mix of camera angles and content throughout and the pacing is spot-on. Fantastic promo video!
- 4/17 1:11 pm - STORY: You do a great job summarizing the event that the runners were at - showcasing the event from the start and finish (with the sunset). SOUND: Great use of the audio from the announcer. This really adds to your video! Your song choice also fits well with the use of slow motion clips! CAMERA: You use a wide variety of different camera shots, but I really appreciated all the different angles that you incorporated. I loved your opening shot to establish that we are actually at a meet. 0:03 is a really great shot and you did a great job recording at the correct frame rate for your slow motion! I also really appreciated this shot at 0:18 with the legs at the starting line. Definitely adds to the anticipation that you feel at the start of a race. Your shot at 0:27 is great, but it is a little shaky. If you leave the camera on the ground, set it up, record and don’t touch the camera as it’s recording. You could try to use a stabilizer effect to see if it fixed the little shakiness here. You do a great job of creating lead room in front of your subjects (like at 0:37). Great ending shot! LIGHTING: You do a great job using light that you had effectively. You got a really nice lens flare at 0:23 which really just adds to the mood of your video! Great job! EDITING: You did a great job sequencing your video. It does have a very nice flow and I like how you mixed in the slow motion shots. One thing to watch out for in particular is match action. You want to edit on the action between two clips that you are using. You want to make sure that when you cut between two clips the action doesn’t repeat. I think we have a little bit of some action repeating between 0:21 to 0:25. At 0:21 we see the runners already start running, but then we cut to a shot of the shoes at 0:23 that are starting to run. In this case start your shot at 0:21 but then cut to the slow motion shoes when we already see the runners running at 0:24. It would just be a matter of cutting it a few frames later to get the match action right. Very clever editing of the title at the end of the video! I like how the text moves up. One suggestion I have is to maybe add temporal interpolation (that is what it’s called in Premiere) on your keyframe, meaning that your text eases into the final position instead of abruptly stopping.
- 2/29 8:55 pm - Love the way you worked the announcer's voice into this. Love the film work with the focus on the feet, the gun going off for the start and then the ending with the person running by the lake and Maine South coming up over the lake. Great job!
Judge 1
Positives: Liked the chronological narrative seeing athletes warm up and start of race Loved the final sunrise shot with runner
Improvements: Abrupt ending - short piece - could have been expounded
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Positives: The pacing of the overall edit was well crafted. As was the selection of action shots. The ending shot of the running silhouetted against the lake is absolutely beautiful.
Improvements: There was a variance of image quality throughout your promo. Some of the shots at the start are very low resolution. At about 10 seconds the video quality improves greatly. It's better to leave out the low resolution footage. Also, think about engaging with your audience. The image quality especially at the start is very important in accomplishing that.
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