Team 294 2006 Highlight

[AdamHeard]

Now, I'm warning it doesn't make much sense (doesn't flow well) and it isn't pretty. But I've never done this before, and I'm also terrible at art and making things pretty. We've used this for a few demonstrations for our sponsor, our school and at our open house.

Well, take a look (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6350131491661608847&q=beach+cities+robotics)

[DanDon]

Very nice video. The only problem that I saw, was the fact that the beginning was kind of boring. Try interspersing some pictures in between the varous awards that you've won (and congrats on those :D).

Other than that, great job.

[Noah Kleinberg]

Nice video... I agree that the text at the beginning would be boring to people not on a team who don't necessarily get what all the awards mean. I also think that maybe there should've been a more definite ending. Other than that, great work, especially for your first one.

[Alex Cormier]

Nice nice, some good shots of rochester teams and 229 in there. I like the part of your wheel being so loud. haha

[DanDon]

Announcer: Team 294 is revving up. Its loud. Its very loud. The judges are holding their ears. :p

[Dylan Gramlich]

Looks good! one thing, when you are going through your awards you put in th 2004 Phoniex Team Spirit Award twice. but other then that awesome job(except for team 340 tipping :( lol)

[Lil' Lavery]

This seems like a video aimed at people not familiar with the FIRST program, so you may want to include some explanations of what each award is. Also, who won the WFFA? And you may want to spruce up the beginning in general.
The transitions from explanation screens to the footage were rather sudden and harsh, you may want to use a fade or other form of transition to help that as well.
You also used some of the same footage twice (and some times almost right after it was used before). I know you may not have that much footage to draw from, but using it twice (especially with the commentary audible during both clips) seems kinda tacky. Removing the commentary from one (or both) of the "double clips" might help create the illusion that it isn't the same clip. Also, you may want to mix up a bit of the scoring footage into the earlier sections as well, the earlier clips were definately alot less exciting than the later ones.
Finally, it ends quite abruptly. There are alot of option on how to end it, but the way it is now is far from the best.
Great start thouh.

[AdamHeard]

Thanks for your inputs.

And, the reason there isn't much explanation and no transitions is that I was just supposed to do the content, and then hand it off to another who is prettying it up with transitions and adding the explanations. We never got around to it before the events we hosted, so we just had some narrate the video.