Futball,
I’m with Pseudo on the ‘flips’ working with the baseball intro only. The drawback using the more dynamic transitions is that it quickly looks ‘gimmicky’ and gets old fast. Another thing was the images of the players and coaches were really small. The should be larger to be more identifiable. Lastly, when you get to the coaches commentary the whole thing was begging for you to cut to B-Roll of the players in action. Even if you may not have stock footage from their last season, shots from their current practices would have broken up the ultimate ‘blah, blah, blah’ from the coaches and emphasized what they were talking about.
Music and mographics wise, I didn’t have any problems with what you selected. The only thing I would have changed would have been to recolor the graphics to their school’s dominant color. The blue worked for baseball, but that green and orange were getting on my nerves. The music choices were just fine for sports and gave your spots the ‘ESPN’ feel to them. It was a shame that you had cut the mographics so to the music so well but didn’t continue that with B-Roll like I talked about earlier.
Sound wise, it was a tiny bit muddy in spots but you would have caught that only if you had a ‘second pair of ears’ to listen to your tracks before you did a final output. Overall I think you did a good job. With B-roll, no gimmicky transitions and some minor tweaks to the graphics and sound these spots will be nearly indistinguishable from far more expensive setups.
.
