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Sports Mashup (4.5 stars)

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I did the sports mashup assignment for one of my video assignments. The topic of my montage is the NBA playoffs. I chose this because one of the things that the assignment wanted us to emphasize was the arc of ambition. I thought that the NBA playoffs were a very good example of this, since it is the time in the playoffs when players put everything they worked for to the test. It’s not really about just basketball as much as its about training hard to be good at something and using the skills you learned to succeed. In the NBA just about every player is very talented, but in order to win your team has to set themselves apart from everybody else. This is a combination of teamwork and individual talent. Also, we had to show “a message about the moments”. The playoffs in any sport are defined by the moments because generally the games are very close and the special moments and great play define the outcome. I made this videos using windows movie maker. I found the game footage on YouTube and bought the song on amazon prime.

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Sports Mashup !

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Here is the assignment for my “Sports Mashup”, I created this using clips from google and converting them into files that Windows Movie Maker would allow me to use and edit. I also added a title and ending slide to give a couple messages before and after the videos. The story behind my montage is that all of the players I used, such as Stephen Curry of Jabari Parker are players that fans and critics talked down upon and counted them out. But each of them payed their haters no attention and kept on working and working and now that are at the top of their games and killing the competition. I look up to them specifically for it!

Stephen Curry had no rank coming out of high school, he didn’t have any big Division 1 offers. Only a few minor D1 and D2 schools. No one seen the small 6 foot 2 point guard as anything but a small body with a little talent. Davidson University gave him the chance, over his few years there he didn’t gain any weight or height but what he did gain was confidence. He started to kill the competition his junior year, averaging 28.6 points per game. Now everybody was seeing how much of a threat he really was. NBA teams started to notice him and he became the 7th overall pick to the Golden State Warriors. He got better every single year since and is now the reigning NBA MVP and also won the 2015 NBA Championship. He silenced all the haters and now has everybody on his side.

Jabari Parker was a little different, coming out of high school he was the number one recruit. He had basically every major Division 1 school knocking at his door begging him to come to their program. He chose Duke University where he became the Freshman of the Year. Drafted number 2 to the Milwaukee Bucks, he was a shoe in for Rookie of the Year but…. he got hurt. He tore his ACL and was out for the rest season. Now the guy who was once on top, had hit rock bottom and everybody changed on him, forgot about him. But that didn’t stop Parker, he got healthy did everything he had to do for his knee. Worked hard all off season for his chance back in the NBA and now he has been killing the NBA with his flashy plays. He is the perfect example of the saying “it’s not about how hard you get hit, it’s about how hard you get hit, and get back up.”

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Sports Mashup Game Winners

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The Work Itself

This video assignment is titled “Sports Mashup“, its instructions are to “submit a video mashup of what you think are some of the greatest sports plays ever. What is the story it tells? This needs to be more than just a montage of clips, find a way to make it present a theme, an arc of ambition, a message about the moments.” It is rated 4/5 stars in terms of difficulty. I created a YouTube compilation video of game winning plays from this past year in the NCAAF, MLB, NFL, and NBA. My video is titled “We Won!“.

The Story Behind The Story

Sports are fun to watch because no one knows what is going to happen at any point in time of a game. The results are unpredictable. I especially love game winning scores as time expires. It is very exciting, especially when the underdog team is on the winning side of it. I created this video of game winning plays to share with the public of everything they may have missed. Personally, I scored a game winning goal in my junior year in lacrosse. I remember the play and definitely the celebration like it was yesterday. It is one of my happiest memories, so I understand the emotions that these athletes feel when they win the game.

The Process, Narrated

I cut and pasted several clips from numerous YouTube videos. I downloaded the videos using http://en.savefrom.net/. I then opened iMove and loaded the videos I had just previously downloaded. In iMovie, I trimmed and edited the video to use only the portions I want. I did this by dragging the yellow bar to the left and right in the timeline. Right after, I clicked “TRIM” to complete the editing.In the video editor, because the video is edited, I simply just dragged it into the “insert video” section, created a title slide and that was it. I saved the video, and shared it to YouTube. I uploaded it to my channel and published it to the public. Below are a few photos to document my process.

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Playing Through the Pain Mashup

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For this Sports Mashup, I wanted to go with something a little different than normal highlights with cool moves and awesome catches. I made a mashup involving some of the gutsiest performances in sports history. One of the worst things about sports is the terrible injuries which can occur. Sometimes their stingers which simply need rest and others which can be career threatening. Though this video, I wanted to highlight people who played through pain to so great heart even if they didn’t win the game.

It took me a little while to figure out what I wanted to do for the theme. However, I think I came up with a good one and pretty quickly researched some great gutsy performances. I downloaded them off of Youtube using KeepVid and then organized them in Windows Movie Maker.

My second task was to figure how to explain the moments and what they mean. I made a few slides in Powerpoint that told who each player was and why it was a gutsy moment. I then imported the slides into Windows Movie Maker and adjusted the timing to ensure it could be read and fit into the video.

Lastly, I addressed the audio segments of the video. I used a dramatic song that I had on iTunes called Drive to Glory by Sam Spence and added it to the moments where the slides were shown and in between clips. I used the fade in and out to make it sound more cohesive and lowered the volume so it didn’t overpower the words and theme.

This assignment was a really great learning experience in trying to formulate a theme for a video and introduce audio that went along with it.

Mashup in Windows Movie Maker:

Cutting the audio in Audacity:

*** 3.5 Stars ***

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Because Sometimes You Win Without Actually Winning

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This is a mashup of sports clips that don’t show professional athletes making amazing plays. This is a montage of clips showing people of all ages demonstrating that winning is something that happens beyond what shows on the scoreboard.

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Because Sometimes You Win Without Actually Winning

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This is the Sports Mashup video (worth 3 1/2 points) I created by taking video clips of some of my favorite moments in sports and splicing them together in iMovie. These aren’t the “typical” sports clips showing professional athletes making incredible catches, dunks, or touchdowns. Instead, these clips show amazing moments in sports where people put winning and pride aside in order to make something incredible happen for someone else with the very last clip being one in which my favorite athlete shows that he is really starting to understand what it truly means to be part of a team and that a game isn’t all about winning.

I began the process of making this video by downloading clips from You Tube of events that I recalled seeing in various news stories over the years. I then found pictures of different quotes that seemed related to the theme of the video and set them to the same background so that they would match the pictures and texts that would be at the front and end of the video. Once I put all of that together in the order I wanted in iMovie, I decided to add another tear jerking element. At the end of The Blind Side movie, a song played by Five for Fighting called “Chances”. I’ve seen The Blind Side at least 10 times but at the end of the movie when they have the slideshow of pictures playing to this song I find myself tearing up so it just seemed like the natural song to add to my video. Hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. I think I’m finally started to get the hang of this iMovie thing.

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Most Clutch Plays Mashup- (3.5 Stars)

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In this assignment we were suppose create a mashup or a highlight reel of what we thought were the greatest sports plays ever. The process to create this was fairly simple but very time consuming. It took me a while to find the videos I wanted but once I was able to find them, putting them together was easy. To edit the clips I used a software on my PC called Windows Live Movie Maker. This software allows me to split and remove parts form the clips. It also allows me to add background music. The sources I used to get my videos were from ESPN, NBA, and YouTube.

I love watching all types of sports and watching them. Before even starting the assignment, I knew the type of theme I wanted for this video. I wanted to go with the most clutch plays ever. I didn’t want them to be clutch moments in regular season games. I wanted the best sports plays that occurred in the biggest games. All of the clips in my video are from championship games or very big playoff games. I felt that anyone can be clutch in a regular game but the true stars come out in the biggest games when everyone is watching.

The thing I enjoy most about almost all of the clips is that I watched most of them live when they occurred, except for the Michael Jordan clip. For all of these clips, I remember where I was, who I was with, and especially the way I reacted when I saw them. Every time I watched this video now it reminds me of all the great memories I had with family and friends during these great sports moments.

Doing this as a first assignment really helped me learn a lot about the video process and the amount of time it takes to come up with it and create it as well. All the concepts I have used here, I will take as I continue to work on the rest of the assignments.

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Rugby rugby rugby

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This was the first assignment I did on moviemaker, and so it’s a little rough. I chose to do the sports mashup, which involved piecing together clips of great sports plays, but they were supposed to also tell a story. I picked rugby as my sport, even though I could have probably picked any number of them. The reason I chose rugby is because there is generally a set method for how to move the ball down the field; first there is a scrum between the forwards on each team and the scrumhalf pulls the ball out of the back of the scrum; they then pass it out to the back line, who run/pass/kick the ball down the field in attempt to score a try.

I pieced together solid plays (for parts where there’s no real way to do anything interesting) and impressive plays for the whole process, starting with the scrum and ending with a really awesome move.

I unfortunately forgot the tips from last week involving resizing the clips so that they all fit together, but I will try to do better with the other assignments.

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Cheesy Sports Montage***

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The video assignment called Sports Mashup, which called to create a video mix of a bunch of great moments in sports history, was a lot of fun and got me pumped up to go out and do something! This assignment was one that I got prepped for a couple of weeks ago. I found all the videos on YouTube and chose which parts of those videos I wanted to put in my mix. The sources for all the videos are found in my original post.

I decided to go a little out there and not do any football moments, because I feel like that sport is the most common one to get pumped about. Instead, I chose snowboarding, rugby, parkour, soccer, and boxing. I used keepvid to download each YouTube video and then opened them in MPEG Streamclip. Once I trimmed down the part of the video I wanted to use, I exported it as an avi file and opened it in Windows Movie Maker. To get rid of the audio, I muted each clip and added in a song by Deadmau5 called “Ghosts n’ Stuff.” I used Audacity to trim the audio and create the fade in and out effects, which I uploaded into Windows Movie Maker. I first heard this song in a documentary called The Art of Flight and knew it would be a good one since it got me pumped up and excited to be watching these amazing snowboarders (by the way, I really recommend watching that documentary!).

As for each clip I chose…I love watching Shaun White snowboard, so it was a no brainer to me to put some of his stuff in. I also thought it was a good one to put first since the action was immediate and you could see him do several tricks. If you know anything about soccer, you know Wayne Rooney has a golden foot and has so many amazing videos of his goals already on YouTube. I had to choose a goal that would keep none-soccer fans interested, so I chose one that was more than just kicking the ball into goal; it has him doing a backflip with it. As for boxing, I only know a few boxers, but when I watch boxing movies and there’s a knockout, I get super pumped so I put in a clip of Sergio Martinez knocking out Paul Williams with one punch. As a rugby player, I couldn’t do a sports mashup without a clip of a great try by a world class team. It shows that you have to not only be fast, but also an accurate kicker and have good predictability of a ball shaped like that bouncing around. Finally, I saw a video of this guy, Damien Walters, on Facebook a while back, and couldn’t resist putting him in. His longer videos are really fantastic and I could watch them for hours. It’s amazing what he can do.

Finally, I uploaded the video onto YouTube et voilà!

14/16 stars

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Get Ya New York Sports Here!

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For three stars, I chose to do the Sports Mashup Assignment. This assignment called for creating a compilation of great sports within a theme. As an “avid New York sports fan”, I chose to do a New York theme for the montage, and layered Jay-Z’s Empire State of Mind over it. The process was fairly simple, as I had plenty of moments in mind, and the brunt of the work was searching through youtube for the best quality videos. After I selected the clips I used Keepvid to download the files to my computer. Once I had all the files I used iMovie to trim and edit the clips. Here’s a screenshot of my screen during the editing process:

One aspect of the final project I am a bit disappointed in is the quality of some of the videos. Several of them were very fuzzy, and I think it took away from the overall quality of the compilation. Anyway, here is the final product.