Frame by Frame at Alan B. - ID# 506
Shepard High School
School Promotion Non Sports
Entry Description
This video gives you behind the scenes of Alan B. Shepard High School Digital Media Class. It’s eye catching and impactful. It brings together the best of everything digital media can bring into 60 seconds.
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Recent Teacher Comments
- 4/30 2:35 pm - Cool promo for your class. I like the fast transitions cut to the music beats. Some strong work throughout. Make sure your VO read matches the intensity or vibe of your piece. The Digital Media text at the end seems to end abruptly. This is a great way to promo your program.
- 3/24 8:14 am - Some nice sequence bursts with some fast paced and snappy edits, love how the cuts were happening with the beats of the music. That drew me into the piece right away. That being said, once that pace of edits was established, I wanted more! It felt like there were more opportunities to keep editing on that pace that you established from the first frame. That being said, it's also nice to let the audience breathe, so maybe that was the point of slowing things down a little bit. I liked how you mixed in the still images as well. This is a solid 60-second promo for your program and I think if the point of the piece is to get kids to sign up for the classes, you did that very well. I think that this would also play really well for middle school kids that are considering different electives to take before they get to your school. Overall, nicely done; this is was one of the better-edited pieces in the group!
Judge 1
Positives: music and pacing of editing match- exciting showed a wide variety of aspects of the media class
Improvements: use of black outs helped to divide up the scenes but could have been used to create different aspects - not just as a pause in the action
Judge 2
Positives: he video moves at a good pace and there's clear effort to make it feel dynamic and energetic within a tight 60 seconds. The ambition to pack a lot in is there.
Improvements: The music is heavy and overpowers everything, and without any natural sound from the classroom it feels disconnected from what's actually happening on screen. The footage doesn't really tell the story of the program. Shots of a Canva template and a tripod sitting in a corner aren't selling anyone on digital media production. A constant watermark running through the video is distracting and pulls your eye away from the content. The voiceover at the end also feels like it was added separately since the tone and energy don't match what came before it. A stronger version of this video would lean into real moments from the class, actual student work, and some natural audio to ground it.
Judge 3
Positives: Exciting visuals. Wide variety of subject matter. I always think that a promo video needs narrative or captioning to deliver the message. But I don't see that here. The visuals along with the short narrative at the end worked well.
Improvements: A few of the shots showing empty hallways or (what looked like) a busy lunchroom really didn't pertain to the subject, unless I missed something in the background. Maybe a little more emphasis on shots detailing the media program.
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