Every week throughout fall camp 2015 and the entire 2015 season, I was contacted by the film coordinator of the team about what film needed to be put together that week. I would get onto the website that all of the film was stored on and get to work. Most of the practice film was already put together by the guys who recorded it. My job was to make sure there were no mistakes and that the finished product was shared to all of the coaches and all of the players.
When the team would receive film from other teams, they would be sent in 5 minute clips. This was the hardest type of film I would have to edit and put together. The 5 minute clips would be in the right order (for the most part) from the beginning of the game to the end. The way I needed to cut it up was so that individual plays were shown. Once all of the individual plays were put together, I would put the clips together into one long video instead of the 30 second clips of each individual play. Each game would take between one hour and one half hour to complete. This format made it easy for coaches to pause and rewind so that they could show the players what they expected or what a team might do is certain situations.
During the season, my job was primarily to cut and edit the game film from the previous week and the opponents film from the week before. The SUU game film was used to study how the team was performing and how they can improve as a team. The opponent game film was for the use of studying the opponent to prepare for when they played each other. As the season went along the opponent film would gradually increase due to the amount of games each team, on the back half of the schedule, would have. The second half of the season I would edit and put together around 4 different games a week.
Overall, this project was an eye opener for me in what I expected and what actually happens on a college football team. I went into this project thinking about becoming a college football coach. When I was finished, I realized that even though I love the game of football and would probably be good at coaching, I just didn't want to put that much pressure on my family. Learning how to work with the film coordinator and the other coaches really helped me to learn how to communicate as a team. As the coaches would go through the practice film they would make little comments on the film for the players to look at. When I would go through and look at those comments I could tell what exactly the player was supposed to learn and what the coaches expected. Through this practice I have learned more about how to critique other people in ways that will promote the most growth and efficiency. This is a leadership skill that will be very useful throughout my life and one I will use often.
