The NFL Films Model
The editors at NFL Films are masters of the art of film editing and have changed the way that TV, film and video crews cover sports. To understand the significance of NFL Films and its 40-year history, it helps to view a football highlight film from before the company's inception. Inevitably, you'll see black and white photography, endless long shots, few close-ups, run-on Walter Winchell-style narration, college band "rah-rah" music and plays presented from start to finish, instead of just their focal points. These highlight films typically revealed little or none of the personalities of the colorful and idiosyncratic men who played in the NFL. NFL Films changed all that with advanced film editing techniques and innovative approaches to telling the story behind the scoreboard.
If the sports documentaries, team yearbook videos, highlight reels or even the home movies of the annual family touch football game that you produce are more like the old model, a close study of the details of the NFL Films editing technique may pay very large divi…
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