2005 Philadelphia Regional Closing Video

[SuperJake]

Team 365 is now hosting a compressed DivX version of the closing video from the 2005 Philadelphia Regional. You can get to it from their main site (www.moe365.org) or, you can get the direct link here: 2005 Philadelphia Regional Closing Video. This video was a joint effort between Jason Taylor from team 357 and myself.

I am working as fast as I can to get a DVD together to be distributed to all of the teams and for other official business as requested by Carol Kauffman (One of the regional directors at the competition).

[melitami]

Once again, awesome job, Jake and Jason! Everyone I've shown the video has thought you guys did a fantabulous job.

Btw, what're the titles of the music used? They keep getting stuck in my head

[team222badbrad]

The first one is titled Sirius by The Alan Parsons Project. They may have used a different version of it if there is one and someone else will have to answer the name of the other song.

I really like this video except for the fact that it is too flashy at times.

I really do like the musical mixture as the songs do fit the video well!

It needs one of those Photosensitive Warnings:

A very small percentage of individuals may experience epileptic seizures when exposed to certain light patterns or flashing lights. Exposure to certain patterns or backgrounds on a computer screen may induce an epileptic seizure in these individuals. Certain conditions may induce previously undetected epileptic symptoms even in persons who have no history of prior seizures or epilepsy.

[RoboMom]

Thank you so much for doing this. I will be able to use this for so many different audiences. I watched mesmerized during the closing ceremonies at Philly. It is now on my laptop.
Want to come to Chesapeake next year?

[DUCKIE]

I'm sure Jake will tell me if I am wrong... but i believe the rest of the video was played to a song from Pirates of the Carribean... then "Play" by Moby.

[SuperJake]

Originally Posted by melitami

Once again, awesome job, Jake and Jason! Everyone I've shown the video has thought you guys did a fantabulous job.

Btw, what're the titles of the music used? They keep getting stuck in my head

We had a list of like 30 songs we were going to use before the filming began. The three that made it into the final cut were (in order):

1: Sirius by The Alan Parsons Project (as pointed out by badbrad - 100%)

2: Skull and Crossbone by Klaus Badelt from the Pirates of the Caribbean Soundtrack (go Ducky, I'll give that a 70%)

3: Porcelain by Moby (Ducky gets a 50% for that one)

This video really showed the two styles of the members that put it together. Jason is really into the fast-paced, quick flashes, and cool text effects while I am more into the dramatic music and slick cuts.

Now for some little fun things Jason and I put into the video. They aren't quite easter eggs - just things we thought were funny after too little sleep and too much pressure. These are in order as they appear in the video.

1: During the opening flashes, there is a picture of one of the refs with ear plugs up her nose.

2: The house that is paused on is not my apartment, despite rumors my team is trying to create. Jason took the bus home one day and just stuck his camera against the window.

3: During quick flashes, there is a guy turning his head fast and in time with the music. The speed of his clip was not altered to fit with the song, we just dumped it in that spot and it worked well. He made it in as "fast head turn guy".

4: Shortly after that, Ron (the announcer) does the same head turn direction in the opposite direction. We figured two head turny guys makes a good video.

5: When you see 357's Jester Drive for the first time, the wheels change direction with the music.

6: During the dancing officials scene, everyone just looks like they are jumping up and down while looking around. Occasionally, you'll see someone do a leg kick. It was more funny on less sleep.

7: When 365 places the 2 red tetras, the bottom one breaks.

8: Pointy Guy (coach behind the alliance station) looks like he is pointing at Dancing Dino (girl in orange suit dancing in the walkway) and talking about her.

9: Guy in the stands raises both hands, then shortly after 834 raises a tetra up using their cool looking gripper.

10: When 225 drops the red tetra outside the field, that tetra breaks and the ref kicks it. You don't see it in the clip, but he was freaking out when that tetra came down - guess you had to have been there.

11: When the field is disappearing, the video is played in reverse. That's why the clapping looks weird. There is also one guy clearly walking back wards (in case you missed him).

I'm up for doing another video, but I don't have all of the proper equipment to pull off another nice video. Jason was able to borrow a nice Cannon DV Camera from Upper Darby HS (thanks!) along with some external hard drives and such. All I was able to do was get a couple of really low-end cameras from Drexel's media rental service.

[RoboMom]

[quote=SuperJake]

6: During the dancing officials scene, everyone just looks like they are jumping up and down while looking around. Occasionally, you'll see someone do a leg kick. It was more funny on less sleep.
QUOTE]

That's because we were just jumping up and down. Even those of us who knew this was coming (and most of the judges had no clue that this was a requirement of being a judge ) were not prepared for how long that song lasts. It goes on and on and on....
I was at the end of the row. THANK YOU for not including me

[dangerousdave]

I took a chance on this 27MB download and it was well worth it! As our team videographer, there were a lot of things in that video that I would like to learn how to do. Thanks Jake & Jason and any others involved. I really enjoyed it!
Dave

[Ian Curtis]

Wow just another reason for me to purchase a video camera for Battlecry... Ah well. I really really liked that. Was that done in Premiere?

[SuperJake]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

Wow just another reason for me to purchase a video camera for Battlecry... Ah well. I really really liked that. Was that done in Premiere?

This was done with Final Cut on a Mac laptop - much to my displeasure. I usually like to work with Adobe Premier Pro, but my computer is one generation too old to run it. Jason was used to using Final Cut, so we just went that route. I must say that if you are in the market for a new video editing computer, after my experience with Final Cut, I'd recommend building a computer for the Adobe Premier Pro Suite.