I have a Quandry. Or a Conundrum. (Quandaundry? Condrumdum?)
I’m working on one of the High School Soccer Banquet videos, the one where I interviewed the seniors, asking them various questions (in retrospect, there were so many other questions I could have asked that could have been more interesting)..
I also have the coach’s description of each of the players. It’s a bit long. Coach said I could probably get a few seconds from that.. well, gosh darn it, he’s a good egg, he loves the players, I want to use all of it.
One way to do it would be to go player by player.. have the coach’s version.. then have the player’s answers. Put that way, its about 23 minutes of footage, though I’m sure I could cut it down. However, I think its boring.
I have another version: Where I have the title of the question, and then each of the player’s answers. This version is down to probably 10 minutes, but it does Not include the coach’s blurb on each player. The coach’s blurb would get repetitive. I also have 7 players, and 5 questions, so I couldn’t spread the blurbs between the questions. (Or could I? 5 fits into 7 pretty well if the seven goes on the outside edges)
I also have these “cute” moments that need homes. Celebration score during a Fifa game.. Giggling when they hear the goofy question before the interview… Googly-eyeing the camera… “Is this on?” … etc.
Another alternative is to put the coach blurbs with the “focus on Senior” video – a totally separate video with baby pictures ‘n’ stuff. I’m thinking in that video, each senior would get their own soundtrack. *hmm* Yeah, that might work better.
OOOO! Idea. I’ll have the coach’s blurb, but I’ll duck the audio when he says their name.. and then I would switch to the player’s baby pictures, and start building up.. and when I finally get to their current action pictures, I’ll put their name in for 1 or 2 seconds (on some highlight music part). Yep. that’ll work.
Ok. Conundrum solved. Thank you for listening.
