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Post by ochentayocho88 on Jan 7, 2010 21:13:24 GMT -6
I have an idea that has been brewing for some time. I'm a communications major in college and I enjoyed filming football for the past five seasons for free. I have gotten pretty good at it and think I could assist high school coaches. My idea is to start a service that will film and organize game film, motivational videos and highlights for high school football teams. The service will go to every game and film quality game film and highlight film (film from field level). The game film will be cut and burnt to DVD and delivered or emailed to the coach as soon as it is cut up and organized. (Saturday morning at the latest)
Highlights can be produced by the following Thursday and at the end of the season.
The other side of this is for the players trying to be recruited. The service will produce a highlight for players to send to schools, or even send to schools that the player wants it to be sent to.
I believe all of this can relieve a lot of anxiety and issues have coaches about poor quality film and also give them tools to motivate and reward their players.
It can also help guys who don't have the skills or tools to produce their own recruiting tapes to send. I know playing at a very small school I was barely recruited by Div. III schools because my coach didn't have the time (or care enough) to help me. So, I had to take it upon myself to get school attention. I signed up for recruiting lists and went it came time for me to put together a tape. The film quality was so bad I didn't know who we were playing let alone where I was on the field.
I just want to see as coaches, how you would feel about a service like this?
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Post by coachks on Jan 7, 2010 21:58:35 GMT -6
I can't speak for everyone, but film at field level is next to useless.
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Post by ochentayocho88 on Jan 7, 2010 22:09:34 GMT -6
Field level tape is for highlights. It gives really good shots of the action from the on field perspective. It'snot tape for breakdown just extra frills for highlights.
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Post by phantom on Jan 7, 2010 22:34:01 GMT -6
I have an idea that has been brewing for some time. I'm a communications major in college and I enjoyed filming football for the past five seasons for free. I have gotten pretty good at it and think I could assist high school coaches. My idea is to start a service that will film and organize game film, motivational videos and highlights for high school football teams. The service will go to every game and film quality game film and highlight film (film from field level). The game film will be cut and burnt to DVD and delivered or emailed to the coach as soon as it is cut up and organized. (Saturday morning at the latest) Highlights can be produced by the following Thursday and at the end of the season. The other side of this is for the players trying to be recruited. The service will produce a highlight for players to send to schools, or even send to schools that the player wants it to be sent to. I believe all of this can relieve a lot of anxiety and issues have coaches about poor quality film and also give them tools to motivate and reward their players. It can also help guys who don't have the skills or tools to produce their own recruiting tapes to send. I know playing at a very small school I was barely recruited by Div. III schools because my coach didn't have the time (or care enough) to help me. So, I had to take it upon myself to get school attention. I signed up for recruiting lists and went it came time for me to put together a tape. The film quality was so bad I didn't know who we were playing let alone where I was on the field. I just want to see as coaches, how you would feel about a service like this? I'm trying to figure out how you can do this profitably while keeping it cost-effective for the coaches. |
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Post by 19delta on Jan 7, 2010 22:34:06 GMT -6
I think the problem you will run into is that a lot of schools won't have the budget for something like that, especially considering that home video editing software is so easy to use and relatively inexpensive.
One thing you might want to consider is marketing your services to parents rather than coaches. You could offer different kinds of packages...get a few kids as clients, film all their games, and then make the tapes for them.
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Post by tothehouse on Jan 8, 2010 9:39:15 GMT -6
What I want to know is....if 20 schools want your services....how are you going to be at 20 games every week during the season? And then how do you plan on getting all that film edited by the next week?
Just being real. Because I do this kind of work...but on a very limited basis because of my time. Just don't have enough hours in the day.
Good luck in your endeavors.
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Post by jbizzz5 on Jan 8, 2010 9:51:50 GMT -6
I think it is a great idea, i hope it works out for you and that it is inexpensive enough for our program to utilize
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Post by jgordon1 on Jan 8, 2010 10:23:52 GMT -6
We had a kid on our team hire a "professional" video guy..Don't know what he paid? BTW the kid is 6'2" 240 Oline... benches 275 and can't understand why no one has offered him...we are SCREWING him
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Post by casec11 on Jan 8, 2010 10:30:34 GMT -6
Alright I'll ask
Whats with the huge ocho cinco signature?
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Post by ochentayocho88 on Jan 8, 2010 16:53:50 GMT -6
Alright I'll ask Whats with the huge ocho cinco signature? What about it? Alright guys, thanks for your input I reall appreciate it! |
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Post by rprdsnk on Jan 8, 2010 17:06:16 GMT -6
This sounds like an interesting idea but like other coaches have stated im sure the cost would be a factor.
Time = $$
i "work" for a small company that does HL films and the biggest thing i face is finding time to work on a film. The other thing is if you are going todo this.. im sure Storage will be a factor do you have enough storage to capture a film into DV-AVI format (assuming you are using minidv) and save multiple angles and games? Just some things for you to think of.
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Post by jpdaley25 on Jan 11, 2010 15:19:26 GMT -6
You might want to target private schools.
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Post by k on Jan 11, 2010 16:36:41 GMT -6
It comes down to price. If we could do this for $50 a game out of hand I'd jump at it with a couple hundred for the rights to mass produce a team highlight or even to buy them by the copy from you for $10 or something.
Further I think that if you priced personalized scouting tapes at $100 you'd get 20+ kids to buy them.
Problem is, that is less than $5000 even if we tape scrimmages.
I'm ignorant to how long a real kick butt tape that would make the kids want to buy them would cost in hours.
Is it profitable? 'Cause I don't think we could pay more than that.
This would free us to scout two more games a week.
Ideally it would be pick how many cameras (at increased cost obviously) you could have (Sidelines could be mandatory in order to increase your purchases from players) and where you want them (endzone, box, sideline, etc).
Definitely a good idea... Just not sure if it would be profitable.
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Post by realdawg on Jan 11, 2010 17:25:14 GMT -6
We pay a teacher from the middle school about $1000 a year to do this. He does really good work, but obviously volunteers alot of his time and does not get paid what he is worth.....Just loves football and the program. He also keeps up our website for us.
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Post by casec11 on Jan 12, 2010 8:28:13 GMT -6
Alright I'll ask Whats with the huge ocho cinco signature? What about it? Alright guys, thanks for your input I reall appreciate it! it just really big. To your question... Our youth league about two years ago hired a company to provide film of all the games to the teams... you would get a DVD of your game and your next weeks opponint. 15 citys 7 teams in each. Make sure that you provide what you say... you can't make mistakes like missing film, whatever. The company never finished the season because they didn't take into acount all the money involved and the people hired out to do the filming of some game were not as good as others. Make sure your orginized and people are trained. |
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