I have teamed up with Varsity Mentoring to help High School Athletes develop a highlight video to present to Colleges and Universities that they are interested in. I hope to use this blog to answer any questions that parents, students or coaches may have.
First a quick overview of Varsity Mentoring. It is a one stop shop for perspective student athletes. With a large network of partners and mentors, Varsity Mentoring can help a student athlete pick what school or schools are right for them, give an online platform to send digital videos to college coaches and find camps and clinics to develop their skills.
My responsibility is to work with the student athlete to create a highlight video that showcases their skills. I hope to offer insight not only to those that I edit videos for but also help parents and coaches with the filming on games.
With all of that said, I am going to offer a few pointers on how to gather quality video.
1. It all starts with the camera, while not everyone can afford a professional camera, and not everyone can afford to hire someone to shoot video for them, video quality is for the consumer has become competitive with some professional cameras. Obviously the most popular thing is HD, however the cost is high, and not many college coaches have Blue-ray players in the office. Digital Video is the most common format with miniDV being the popular tape format, with VHS being the least popular.
2. When shooting video outdoors, try your best to keep the sun at your back. Indoors avoid, if possible, shooting towards windows.
3. Keep a steady shot. I know this sounds like common knowledge but you would be shocked at what you see. The best to prevent this is to use a tripod, but a tripod doesn’t always fit on the bleachers. Which leads to camera location. The ideal location would be the same places that the team’s record, high and at the middle of the court or field.
4. Keep the ball in the shot, again this sounds like common knowledge. It is hard to evaluate a player when a coach has no clue where the ball is coming from.
5. Keep zooming to a minimum, as tempting as it is to zoom into your player for a good tight ISO (which is fine a few times, it actually makes it easier to edit if done right) it breaks point #4 of not keeping the ball in the shot.
I will have more tips later, and hopefully can answer your questions. In the meantime keep an eye on my page on Varsity Mentoring.
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