Blue Demon Hoops - ID# 468
Maine East
School Promotion
Entry Description
A sizzle reel of the 2023-2024 Varsity Boys Blue Demon Basketball Team.
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- 4/22 11:24 am - STORY: You provide a lot of information to your audience but your message isn’t necessarily clear. Your video could work on sequencing and pacing which would help with the overall story of your video! SOUND: I think your audio is mixed appropriately. I would like to hear some extra sound, especially from the gameplay footage. It could be audio of the crowd cheering after a point was scored, or squeaks of sneakers, or the sound of the basketball going through the hoop. CAMERA: I do enjoy the closeups of individual players in your video. Even though the shakiness is a stylized choice, I do think that it is too distracting and there is too much of it. Too much to the point that it is hard to focus on what is actually in the shot. Some shake is good, but from 0 to 0:06 there is just a little bit too much. Be sure to pay attention to focus. You have a lot of unfocused stylized shots, but I think that there are points where your shot should be clear and crips. Like at 0:06, we see the basketball fill the frame and then the player moves it away. When the player moves the basketball away we should start getting a clearer picture of the player’s face, but we never do. It’s just out of focus. I really like this shot at 0:39! Great moment to capture! One thing to watch out for from 0:39 to 0:42 is your exposure and white balance (WB). Currently these two shots are overexposed. You can tell because the whites are just blown out. Also, the white balance between the two is completely different. At 0:39, the WB is much ore yellow, whereas in the following clip it is more blue. Gyms have terrible terrible lighting and it is so difficult to get the WB correct. Make sure when setting WB it is consistent on all cameras that you are using. I do want to touch upon slow motion. You use it in quite a few spots, but it is choppy, meaning that the settings were not correct. 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! LIGHTING: I appreciate the use of blue lighting in the player closeups! It definitely enhances the look of your video! EDITING: You have cuts throughout your video that are not on screen long enough and it is hard to process what is actually being shown. I think your intention was to cut on the beat, but your cuts are not consistent. For example, from 0:21-0:22 you have a really fast cut. It’s hard to process what happens in the first clip. From 0:26 to 0:28 you also have a series of fast cuts that don’t have a good flow to them and don't cut to the beat of the song. I think you also hold your shots too long at 0:28 to 0:38. Start the action early at 0:28, meaning at 0:28 we should already see player #3 with the ball in their hand ready to shoot a basket. With your current edit, there is a beat you could cut on a 0:30. So make a cut to a different clip on the beat of the song to help your video flow better. Cutting on the beat can help with your sequencing and overall flow/pacing of your video. Right now, your pacing is kind of all over the place. In terms of sequencing, you want to arrange your shots in a way that makes sense or tells your story effectively. The opening shot of your video doesn't really give the audience any context, and it’s no on the screen for long enough to process what it is. For example, at the beginning of the video I would start with the clip of the player spinning the ball on his finger first instead of the close up that we see first. As soon as the player with the spinning ball on his finger points to the camera you could cut to that close up that you originally had first. I also appreciate your use of slow motion in places like 0:07 (and others). However, it is choppy. 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.
- 2/29 9:12 pm - Great job and I like the blue lighting for Blue Demons. Love the shots of live basketball coverage.
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