1065 Promo Video

[Dylan]

Good music, you guys had a good defensive bot this year.

cromat has a point, it would be good if you had footage of your bot doing more than defense, was it able to score center goals?

You might also want to shorten the words at the end by a couple terms, and add some more footage so the video is like 3 mins.

[Daisy]

Just one...at the end when "YOU" comes up, maybe there should be a sharper note. Other than that, I thought it was very good.

[Cynette]

You done good! I agree with Daisy above, if you could time and ending beat of the music with the word YOU or something like that. And the word Cooperation is spelled wrong. I knew that last night too, I just didn't think to tell you.
Got any crazy crowd shots you can throw in?

[Lil' Lavery]

Incorporating the video to the music always helps, but it isn't recquired, and can often be difficult.
One spelling correction though, Cooperation was spelled Coorperation (or maybe you mean Corporation, either way).
Also, cool effect of having the voiceover come over the music, but it you had the music a little bit louder during that part I think it would have been better, and you would have still been able to hear the announcer. Some more announcer clips would be really cool as well.
Also, consider your target audience. If this is targeted at your team (as a highlight reel), team parents, other FIRSTers, or even judges, the defensive clips and such are perfect. But if it is targeted at potential sponsors, or even potential members, you may want to include some "best of the best" footage and suggested earlier.

[RoboMadi]

Sean got a solid point. I've been making and editing videos for a while now, and the main thing you want to focus is your audience. Its an amazing promo video and sound effects are amazing.

The only thing I like to suggest is to come up with "dynamics." A promo video or any other video can be really boring and drag the audience through it; but if you can input some cool animations and cool sound effects and special effects, it keeps the audience alive. It also depends on what program one is using. BTW what program did you use?

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by RoboMadi

What program did you use?

Windows Movie maker, it's also the first movie I've ever done...


As for all the imput, THANKS!!

The thing is with match footage...this year we didn't score much, and thats the best clip I could find. I'll talk to the team when we start meetings again and get thier advice for matche clips.

Originally Posted by Bill_Hancoc

Pretty good...maybe a few more spots where you can hear the announcer over the music ...that was kinda cool when it did that

If I get more match clips where there is good announcing comments, I'll add more of them.
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Any more suggestions are always welcome.

[Barry Bonzack]

Very Good Michelle, glad to see more teams in the area making promo videos.

General tips when making videos

like Sean said, know your audience that will be viewing the video before making it. There are a few different types

Wrap up Video for own team/chiefdelphiers - little explanation of FIRST needed, the audience already knows. Fast paced music with lots of quick clips of highlights. This is where your video did great in, especially when combining with pictures. The main purpose you may want to stress are pictures of people instead of parts of the robot, you mostly did well here too.

Many of the videos were great, but could use a little more editing, show the best parts of each, don't start them too early or end late. Remember music can be edited as well to fit your video better. Wildstangs 2004 encore video is a great example to putting your video to music.


Recruitment videos - Very similar, but a further explanation of what FIRST is. When people first join robotics, they want to see battlebots, give them the video of defensive play just to satisfy the bloodlust for the moment, show and explain the high energy sportlike competitions.

Parents - Include scholarship opportunities, working with engineers, and hands on experience.

Sponsors- Don't forget close up shots of the robot and T-shirts with other sponsors on them! mention travel and how many people/teams/other companies will be at those competitions.

Administration/school board - Again, scholarship opportunities, other schools that participate, travel opportunity, real world experience, and most importantly how it can improve test scores and inspire math, science, and technology in students. for Florida, mention how it can improve the FCAT



Now to be nitpicky, I love how you ended the video, but instead of a black background, you could have been doing that with the pictures in the background. Just a suggestion. Windows Movie Maker, is not the best of programs, but it isn't horrible either as long as your video isn't over 2 minutes. you may want to invest in a higher power amateur movie editing software. Good luck!

[Lil' Lavery]

Michelle, the SOAP site has an archive of the UCF webcast. The videos are lower quality than yours, but it can offer more clips (and a 2nd angle of some matches) to help you if you want more footage.
http://soap.circuitrunners.com/2006/movies/florida/

[Michelle Celio]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

Michelle, the SOAP site has an archive of the UCF webcast. The videos are lower quality than yours, but it can offer more clips (and a 2nd angle of some matches) to help you if you want more footage.
http://soap.circuitrunners.com/2006/movies/florida/

I got all the match clips from there . I have the whole Florida regional download. But like I stated before...we really did allot of defense this year, not much shooting...I think we may of gotten a couple into the lower goals I haven't seen any of that on any of the matches we were in. I'll look again. I'll probably have 4 or 5 more of these done before next season so I'll take all your guy's wonderful impute and see what I come up with. By 4 or 5 I mean totally different and for different porpuses.

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Michelle Celio

I got all the match clips from there . I have the whole Florida regional download. But like I stated before...we really did allot of defense this year, not much shooting...I think we may of gotten a couple into the lower goals I haven't seen any of that on any of the matches we were in. I'll look again. I'll probably have 4 or 5 more of these done before next season so I'll take all your guy's wonderful impute and see what I come up with. By 4 or 5 I mean totally different and for different porpuses.

Overall it is a very nice video. Clips don't always have to be from your team for promotional videos (for wrap-ups and/or highlight reels they definately should though). Take for example this one I did. 116 is hardly featured in the 2006 clips at all (not a whole lot of good video of us dumping the corner goals, despite how frequently we did it ).
But in any matter, hope you enjoyed the process, and keep up the outstanding work.

[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by Michelle Celio

I got all the match clips from there . I have the whole Florida regional download. But like I stated before...we really did allot of defense this year, not much shooting...I think we may of gotten a couple into the lower goals I haven't seen any of that on any of the matches we were in. I'll look again. I'll probably have 4 or 5 more of these done before next season so I'll take all your guy's wonderful impute and see what I come up with. By 4 or 5 I mean totally different and for different porpuses.

I never knew porpuses (or "porpoises") had such a taste for robotics!

Haha, just kidding.

But I like the vid. As mentioned above, you did a good job with fast paced music and mixing it up with pics/vids of your robot. I also agree with everyone who has said to incorporate more clips where you can hear the announcer over the music, if at all possible. They were really cool.

I realized you said that it was your first video that you've made, and it's really not bad. I'll be looking forward to some more promotional videos. (Now only if we can get one of our guys on making a vid for us...)

[RoboMadi]

Originally Posted by Michelle Celio

Windows Movie maker, it's also the first movie I've ever done...

Great Job!.... If it was your first time, you really did an amazing job. Window Movie Maker is just a basic editor. I would recommend using Roxio Videowave, mainly because you can get a lot of effects. There are a lot of other programs out there too.

Keep up the good work