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OT Sports Scholarship video
It’s been a few years since I have been involved in video recording of high school basketball. I’ve been approached by a parent to produce a video of his daughter that can be sent to colleges to generate interest in the possibility of an athletic scholarship. Is anyone involved with this? If so can you share a little info? What is the content of the video? Length of video? What do you charge?
It appears that he wants me to go to several games and shoot video and then edit it along with stats and info about his daughter. I’m not sure what the going rate is, in Ohio, for this type of video production. Any help would be very much appreciated.
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Hi Doug,
I’ve only done two of these. Both were for close friends and they brought me the footage that they had been taking all season so I didn’t charge them anything to edit it. I made them pick out the highlights they wanted and just note the timecode. Obviously if you have to go to games to video tape it yourself, you’ve got to charge what your time is worth. Sorry I can’t help you there.
My approach was that coaches are getting tons of DVD’s and they are only going to watch a few minutes of each. The kid is either going to impress them in the first few plays and make them watch more or not. One was for American Football and the other was for Lacrosse. Both highlights were about 7 minutes long. I included a 30 second intro with a picture on the left and changing stats on the right followed by highlights of their plays logically grouped together. For football I had equal sections (about 3 minutes each) of Offensive Tackle, Offensive Guard, and Defensive Tackle.
For Lacrosse I had sections for Defense, Draws, Transitions, and Goals. This lets the coach concentrate on each of their talents individually. If they performed a particularly tricky move, I did an “instant reply” in slow motion. I was careful not to do this more than twice so I picked the best two plays and spaced them out. Obviously place whatever they are good at first to keep the coach’s attention.
During the video I added highlights to circle the athlete so that they were easy to pick out; just for a few seconds at the beginning of each play to guide the coach’s eye at the right player. I used gray transparent generated media with the cookie cutter to punch the hole in the center and then keyframed the hole to follow the player.
I made it a point to use royalty free sports music. You don’t want the coach singing along and forgetting to watch the video or even worst, to have heard the same song for the 99th time and just stop it all together. It was very nondescript sports music but driving to build excitement. Schools will usually also want to see a full game. So after the 7 minute highlight, I included an entire game.
When I made the DVD I had one button for highlights and a second for the game and a “play all” button.
Both kids got a scholarship. I’m sure it had more to do with their athletic ability than my editing skills but at least I know they got watched. 😉 Good Luck!
~jr
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Hi John.
I realize that this is an old thread, but I’ve recently started shooting some of these sports recruitment videos myself, and I am interested in locating some great royalty free sports music.
Any chance you could point me in the right direction?
Cameron Brown
https://www.athleticrecruitmentmedia.com
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