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Here is Non-profit video I shot and edited.
There were 2 days of shooting and 13 hours of editing. It was a fun project.
http://www.infocusstudios.com/gotr2.html

Wow! Great production! I'd love to hear how you shot and edited - especially the audio. And how did you get that rough-edged frame to move across the video towards the beginning? Inquiring mind wants to know.

Very nice job Jeff and thirteen hours editing. . .you are very disciplined to get this completed in that amount of time.

Heck, I have trouble remembering to keep track of the timer when I try to time my edits.

Superb job and excellent use of inserts. Keep up the good work!

Regarding the audio: The first day of shooting I interviewed coaches and 3 participants using the Sennheiser wireless lav. During the lessons I had a wireless on each coach on seperate channels. This way, depending on which coach I was filming, in post I could eliminate the audio track I didn't want to use.

The day of the race, my assistant and I went around gathering soundbites from as many girls as we could. I used the wireless sennheiser system with a shotgun mic, as you can see in some of the shots.

As far as the rough edged frame, I wish I could tell you that it took my special skills
But I can't, it was one of Digital Hotcakes fantastic products.

Last year I purchased the Steadicam Merlin. I use it more and more in my productions. There is a short 4 sec clip in this video that demonstates it quite nicely. Take another look, there is an African-American girl running in front of her blonde haired coach. I was running just as fast as they were and there is no bounce in the shot. I love the Merlin!

Thanks for commenting! It is always great to get feedback from other editors.

Jeff
I think all the others have expressed my thoughts on the technicalities of your short film, it is great.

As a purely amateur editor, the technicality of editing is not such a issue for me, but topics and filming techniques is where I lack experience and inspiration. Your short film is just the type of piece that helps generate the ideas side of my hobby.

Thanks for sharing this.

Ian

Well done Jeff,

This is a great promo video, I am sure the client is happy!

Thanks for the "how it was done" explanations. What mixer did you use when using the wireless + shotgun at the same time?

Kim S. Williamson

Kim,
I did not use a mixer. I just had one mic going into the left channel and the other in the right channel. I then mixed them in post with the renommee audio software.

Jeff