932 - Promotional Video

FIRST General Forum
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After making a lot of presentations to schools/business/boards, etc where the people have a hard time “getting” the energy and excitement of a FIRST event, we decided to address this problem with our latest video. Meant for showing while “selling” FIRST to schools - trying to encourage the growth of new teams, that is - we really tried to capture the feeling of a competition, and I think our video editor did well.

Without further ado: here’s the video itself.

Of interest to you guys (and girls):

  • 0:30 - 217 (Thunderchickens) performing a beautiful hurdle
  • 0:50 - 148 sped up… but only a little. Very fast robot there.
  • Fredbird (yes, the mascot of the St. Louis Cardinals) appears throughout, joining the team mascots and FIRST judges in some harmless fun
  • 1:35 - Andy Baker doing the infamous trackball dive

What do you think? Does the video perform it’s job well? Comments, suggestions, compliments all welcome.

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That is one excellent, professional, exciting video. Is there any way to get a DVD or CD of it? We would show that at demos and recruiting events.

Kudos to the crew who filmed, edited and produced the video. Most professional!

Allan

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Great job guys. I would love to get a copy of this if I could and you dont mind. The best part was clearly the trackball dive. Keep up the good work.

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Not bad. In my opinion, 4 minutes was a little bit too long. I make videos for our team (Team Fusion #364) and we definitely try to keep our videos under 3 minutes to keep from being too repetitive. If you want to see our videos, check out www.teamfusion364.org. The videos are under the media section. Enjoy!

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