By: Chad Wilson
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It’s that time of year where 100’s and 1,000’s of high school football players will make or have made, highlight videos of their 2011 season exploits. Many of the highlight videos will be made in a fashion that will adequately market the player’s talents to college coaches but many more videos will fail to hit the mark.
Making highlight videos is a time consuming task that require some knowledge of what coaches want to see for them to be done right. The majority of the highlight videos I watch are done wrong or at the very least, have room for improvement. Two of the most common mistakes I see made with highlight video production are the inordinate amount of routine plays added to a highlight video and putting the most exciting plays to the middle or end of the video.
Prep football players are under the impression that their highlight video is the only one that will be watched by the coach they are sending it to. Or at least, that is the impression that their video is giving off. A basic block being executed by an offensive guard, a tackle that anyone can make playing linebacker, a five yard hitch route caught by a receiver are routine plays that would not fall under the definition of “highlight”. Stacking your highlight video with these type plays not only bores the coach watching it but gives off the impression that there is nothing really special about you. With 100’s of videos to watch, a collage of routine plays on your highlight video is a surefire way to get that tape stopped and tossed to the side. If your best, most remarkable plays for the season amount to 1:30 versus a video comprised of every block you made making up 6:22, opt for the 1:30 every time. What you want is that coach watching your best plays over and over again rather than him watching your 6:00 video waiting for it to end and never turning it on again.
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