Project 3 Sketch 8 – ‘Highlights Reel’

For this sketch I decided to further expand on this concept of a gaming ‘highlight’ to create something possibly longer. It turns out it worked quite well, what I attempted to create is in a sense a ‘highlight reel*’ which is essentially a compilation of highlights from a game that has progressed for a period of time. What makes this different from say a gaming montage in my opinion is that it’s much more linear as the highlights come sequentially within a time frame.

Compared to a montage, a montage is just a variety of short clips placed together with no real aim to achieve a sense of linearity, more like a showcase of a particular aspect such as skill, comedy, etc. This kind of video can be see in Project 1 where I analyzed a montage made by sparkles, it’s purpose being a homage and showcase towards the Counter-Strike MLG player – KennyS. To me this feel like something different, not something that’s completely new but something that steers away from the typical ‘gaming montage’ format.

As for where this kind of video may be suited for, I’d most likely say YouTube again because these kind of videos are targeted towards a much larger audience and without constraints on the duration, you’re able to really make the most of such a format and style whereas with something like Vine, something like a highlight reel wouldn’t be as effective in making an impact to the community.

In terms of technicality, I used Shadowplay to record the footage and Sony Vegas 13 to edit it. In earlier of my Project 2 sketches I looked briefly at the usage of text within a game, so I tried to incorporate the same technique with dialogue this time as well as the cuts in order to make it seem more linear.

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