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Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher
3.) Keep it interesting. There's three reasons robot videos go viral: 1.) The team is a big name and can get away with putting out whatever 2.) The robot is amazing 3.) The video is amazing. Out of all those three, the easiest one to make happen is the last one.
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This is a great thread and a tremendous start. To build upon point #3: unless you are 100% confident you have a creative or interesting video, keep it short and focused on the robot. I don't care how many advanced film techniques you used to film someone using a drill press... it is still just a video of someone using a drill press, which everyone has seen and is boring.
I really agree with showing off functions. Personally, I would treat the reveal video as if the #1 seed was coming by our pit and asking what our robot could do. I think they offer great opportunity to show all your abilities and that you have thought about strategy. There were a ton of reveal videos in 2014 that never showed the robot passing the ball, which was a huge aspect of the game. Have these teams not thought about strategy or were they so off base with it that they didn't think robots needed to pass? I think you can learn a lot about a team by what they show and what they don't show in their reveal video.