Practice Three, Video

This will probably be the last practice I cover, because Ruggerfest and the Truman game are the next two weeks, and then they are finished practicing. On a whim, sort of, I decided to take a video camera to this practice. I had the notion that I would break all the rules (and tried to) and give an idea of what practice is like.

The problem is, there is a very good reason that the professors demand we used tripods. I ran next to the players and through the players and everything else, and though I was willing to accept a certain amount of shake, it was just too shaky. So I switched it up, and tried running with the players, but trying to get ahead of them, and then stopping, turning around, and trying to capture up close the players getting tackled. I had some success with that.

Then I tried to get shots of them kicking, and they had this fitness test that I shot that I felt I edited together pretty well. The problem with what I shot, and how the video will turn out, I think, is that there just isn't enough interview and voice in it. I felt I managed to get a pretty decent feeling of the flow of practice, though. Tried to remember my basics, like exit frames and getting space before and after the event I wanted. Got low on the ground and shot between legs. They even let me get on the sled, and I held the camera down low pointed up so that you could see inside the scrum. In all, it was probably the most fun I've had with a video camera in a long time.

I will post the video when I finished editing it.




My apologies, the blog is cropping the sides of this video.