Berry College Admissions Video

Fuego · Post by **Fuego** » 28 Jan 2008 11:36

Berry College in Rome, GA where I've gone for 2 1/2 years hired my friend Ryan to do a series of videos for the admissions department. This was the first of his videos. The video will be embedded in the Berry website and sent to prospective students. They also took a picture of me playing to put on a post card and send out to follow up the video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FAwd_mBgcVg

Looking forward to hearing what you guys think.

EoghanMcDowell · Post by **EoghanMcDowell** » 28 Jan 2008 11:43

This video rocks. I love the settings and it flows really well. I especially liked when you were playing in the middle of the lake, and i thought the presidents office was a funny place to play. Heres a question, whats that ball thing in the science center? I was trying to figure it out, but it just looks like floating ball to me. All in all though fantastic video, the shred was really good and consistent, and the camera work and editing was well done. Props.

Fuego · Post by **Fuego** » 28 Jan 2008 13:29

It's a pendulum that hangs from the roof of the building and is supposedly kept swaying by the rotation of the earth. it has a little needle on the bottom that draws lines in a sand pit.

EoghanMcDowell · Post by **EoghanMcDowell** » 28 Jan 2008 13:54

Thats pretty retro-fit

pips · Post by **pips** » 28 Jan 2008 14:18

It was cool to see you kick again. Nice video. Loved the cows. They made me laugh.

Max Power · Post by **Max Power** » 28 Jan 2008 16:05

Whats up with the House O' Dreams? This video is awesome, the campus there looks so f ing sweet. Hold a tourny there and i will do my best to go, how far are you from Atlanta?

Thank you for showing us this I truly enjoyed watching.

BenRea · Post by **BenRea** » 28 Jan 2008 16:47

yesm for someone who loves nature that would be so sweeeet. wow.

beautiful. creative video, turned out better than i expected.

Outsider · Post by **Outsider** » 28 Jan 2008 19:06

Coleman! Nice video. It makes me want to go to that college. Good shred, too. The vid is really well edited, I thought. I does a very good job of giving the impression of one long continuous dropless string.

As for the pendulum, I believe that is what is often called a Foucault Pendulum. It is a very famous old science experiment. I think you may have misunderstood the principle, though. The pendulum is not kept in motion by the earth's rotation, rather, it demonstrates the earth's rotation. That is, it is difficult for one to actually observe the earth rotating when one is standing upon it. From our vantage point, we seem to be standing still while the sun and stars revolve around us. The pendulum, though, constantly changes the angle that it is swinging at. Back and forth, back and forth, the angle of the swing eventually turns a full 360 degrees, demonstrating that the earth is rotating. That is probably why this pendulum has a little sand box beneath it that the needle traces lines into. By those lines one can see that the plane the pendulum is swinging on is moving at little bit with each swing. Some other examples of this experiment line up blocks in a circle around the pendulum for the plumb to knock over, one at a time, as it gradually traces out it's circle -- esentially, when the blocks are set up right, the pendulum acts as a clock, knocking over one block each hour, for instance. Anyway, you can read about these devices here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum

Oh, and its also the title of a well-known novel that I've been meaning to read. Some say that its the precursor to "The DaVinci Code", like, the original super-grand-conspiracy novel.

Hmm... sorry to ramble, but I just love these kinds of classic science experiments.

Outsider · Post by **Outsider** » 28 Jan 2008 19:06

double post. sorry. I knew that was gonna happen...

Jorden · Post by **Jorden** » 28 Jan 2008 19:37

Amazing scenery!

Amazing video quality!!

Grossly overused song!!!

I like your style. It has a lot of potential. Stay on your toes and add more bounce to your game and you'll progress really fast.

Nicely done.

JM

smpdustin15 · Post by **smpdustin15** » 28 Jan 2008 20:41

nice nice nice stuff andrew
i love it, plus daft punk is best shred video music ever.
pm me if ya wanna get down for some shred

Psilocybe · Post by **Psilocybe** » 28 Jan 2008 21:00

That was sweeet. Sometimes it looked like you were standing in a set of a play, especially at the mill. Something about the lighting being so uniform (no shadows?)... The chapel, island, reservoir and mill shred were my favorite.

I've been actually wanting to do the same thing at my college, but I doubt it'll happen.

I hope your video gets lots of attention!

Fuego · Post by **Fuego** » 29 Jan 2008 13:30

Thanks for all the feedback guys. And thank you Jon for the clarification on the pendulum, good thing I'm not a science major.

I agree that this is one of the best songs for shred videos but also the most overused. Since it's not really a shred video, but made for potential Berry students who havn't seen Kampa Park(love that video) I thought I'd suggest it, and the guy who made the video loved the song.

I think my favorite shot to watch is the one in the president's office but my favorite one to shoot was definitely the cows. When we got out there there were just two cows eating out of a bucket a few yards behind the fence. When I went over, one of them came over to look at me. As I was playing Ryan said "keep going the other one's coming over." When I stopped he said "Whoa keep going". When I turned around every cow in the field was sprinting towards me.

What I learned making this video:
Cows love footbag.

xXLoss_of_ControlXx · Post by **xXLoss_of_ControlXx** » 30 Jan 2008 19:20

That was awesome! So many different places, didn't really watch the shred, just background. I would definitely consider the school cause of this video.

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 31 Jan 2008 16:23

Yeah.
This made me want to go there too!
Brilliant. I also liked the quality of the video. Umm, and what else. Oh, I know the music is really overused, and that was one of my first impressions, but it didn't bother me once I was completely enthralled by the scenery.
I liked how your shred slowly progressed too. I really liked seeing the assassin on one side and phoenix on the other!
I liked the old mill, and the reservoir, and the meadow with the deer or something???

CIC flurry · Post by **CIC flurry** » 01 Feb 2008 10:23

Nice. The video does do a good job of showing how vast that campus is. Is this in Atlanta?? You should definitely host an event there. Some of the sceneries did look green screened.

Fuego · Post by **Fuego** » 01 Feb 2008 12:34

Yeah I've only hosted one tournament before and I've been dreaming for a few years how cool having one a Berry would be but every year somewhere near the beginning of the planning process I remember how much work it is to plan a tournament and I chicken out. Maybe someday I'll work up the courage.
Yeah it was fun shooting a video with a guy with a E-media degree and an HD camera.
I like the resevoir shot too, there's a ladder on the backside of that tower in the water that you can climb up and jump out of the window.