Braggin Bout Frags ep.1

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<div style="width: 500px; text-align: center" align="center">The Media Team is Proud to Present the the first installment of EdgeGamers' Braggin' Bout Frags:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-PfRr_nNOs&hd=1[/ame]

We Hope you enjoyed Week 1! Keep sending us in those frags!


If you would like to leave feedback, please do so! we would love to hear what we can do to make these videos better for everyone!

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If you want criticism, I'll be completely honest. I didn't really care for it. However, I'm not just going to say that, I can tell you what needs to be improved.

First off, like a few others have said, the clips were far too long and it seemed like they were just put straight in, I didn't see much editing. What you need to do is speed up, or even skip some parts of the clips, especially with long kill streaks like this. Basically, unless the focal point of the clip is something that they did other than killing people, pretty much anytime that they're not shooting should be sped up. It's unnecessary. It was especially clear in Frisky's clip, where there was about a full minute of that clip that wasn't needed. People don't need to see someone running around looking for enemies, or standing at a dispenser getting health.

Another thing along the lines of clip length, is the style of the clips themselves. Watch any time of gaming/sports top 10 video, and they're 95% of the time, short clips. There aren't these long kill streaks (unless the kill streak is exceptionally good). The Halo series capture it perfectly. The fact that you get medals for getting kills within 4 seconds of each other was a great idea. People want to see fast paced, or exceptionally skillful gameplay. The third clip was basically spawn camping in Blackmesa. That's nothing special.

As has been mentioned before also, the sound was pretty bland. Commentary helps, but again, its not that great when you're just commentating on kill streaks. If its just going to be kill streaks, think about some more intense music, not this kind of quiet pulse in the background with occasionally something you can hear.

That was the bad, now here's my good. The fact that it was recorded in 720P is a huge plus, especially for frag videos where its good to see everything. Second, I liked the transitions between each frag clip, and the person's name scrolling along the bottom.

That's all I have to comment on this, I hope I wasn't too harsh. I really am just trying to help make the video better.
 
First off, like a few others have said, the clips were far too long and it seemed like they were just put straight in, I didn't see much editing. What you need to do is speed up, or even skip some parts of the clips, especially with long kill streaks like this. Basically, unless the focal point of the clip is something that they did other than killing people, pretty much anytime that they're not shooting should be sped up. It's unnecessary. It was especially clear in Frisky's clip, where there was about a full minute of that clip that wasn't needed. People don't need to see someone running around looking for enemies, or standing at a dispenser getting health.

Another thing along the lines of clip length, is the style of the clips themselves. Watch any time of gaming/sports top 10 video, and they're 95% of the time, short clips. There aren't these long kill streaks (unless the kill streak is exceptionally good). The Halo series capture it perfectly. The fact that you get medals for getting kills within 4 seconds of each other was a great idea. People want to see fast paced, or exceptionally skillful gameplay. The third clip was basically spawn camping in Blackmesa. That's nothing special.

As has been mentioned before also, the sound was pretty bland. Commentary helps, but again, its not that great when you're just commentating on kill streaks. If its just going to be kill streaks, think about some more intense music, not this kind of quiet pulse in the background with occasionally something you can hear.

That was the bad, now here's my good. The fact that it was recorded in 720P is a huge plus, especially for frag videos where its good to see everything. Second, I liked the transitions between each frag clip, and the person's name scrolling along the bottom.

That's all I have to comment on this, I hope I wasn't too harsh. I really am just trying to help make the video better.

This.
 
Yep we know we had to use those clips though this week is going to be more action less walking around.
 
Goods - Nice job showing all eGO servers/ games
-Like the countdown.

Bad - Please select a different song, the song didnt fit with what was going on.
-Make a time limit for frags, idk that last frag was on for like 3 min.
- Turn off the sound in the video on some of them, 1-3 had sound still in them and was annoying.
- Speed up the boring parts.
- to long, Most people dont like watching videos longer then 5 min.
 
2 bad my quad nade kill didn't get in and i forgot to record when i got my 8 kill mac10 spree on css :/
 
=O

NO WAY... that last one was amazing, that must have taken serious skill and some major luck.
 
A pretty good "Top 5" Video, but I have some suggestions. ;P

1. Add commentary
2. Use different camera angles
3. Highlight the "pro" parts (Slow-mo, etc)
4. Credit the player during the transition (By saying or listing the name)
5. Stick with shorter clips

The 4th one with the DODS player just killing 3-4 people I didn't think was flashy enough to be in a "top" video. If they were all together and got a quadruple kill right there in one slip, that would have been good. This also relates back to using smaller clips. The other DODS Sniper pretty much camped a spot and killed whoever was around a corner.

The same goes for the TF2 Soldier - where he was only able to kill that many kills was because he had a medic on his back the whole time. The enemies came sequentially, not simultaneous.

Come to think of it, they're all just kill-streaks 5 times over. I want to see some flashy and exciting stuff. ;P For example, a TF2 clip could be a Soldier juggling someone in the air. All in all, it's not really the Media Team's fault, they just didn't get better clips. ;P

Good work on the video though!
 
A pretty good "Top 5" Video, but I have some suggestions. ;P

1. Add commentary
2. Use different camera angles
3. Highlight the "pro" parts (Slow-mo, etc)
4. Credit the player during the transition (By saying or listing the name)
5. Stick with shorter clips

The 4th one with the DODS player just killing 3-4 people I didn't think was flashy enough to be in a "top" video. If they were all together and got a quadruple kill right there in one slip, that would have been good. This also relates back to using smaller clips. The other DODS Sniper pretty much camped a spot and killed whoever was around a corner.

The same goes for the TF2 Soldier - where he was only able to kill that many kills was because he had a medic on his back the whole time. The enemies came sequentially, not simultaneous.

Come to think of it, they're all just kill-streaks 5 times over. I want to see some flashy and exciting stuff. ;P For example, a TF2 clip could be a Soldier juggling someone in the air. All in all, it's not really the Media Team's fault, they just didn't get better clips. ;P

Good work on the video though!


We have already stated that most of those would be used, camera angels are hard to do however. :/
 
Now there's counter-criticism lol Sure guys make it harder for them lol
 
c'mon people, enough of the "what no counter-strike" comments, it didnt make the countdown, oh well. Neither did INS, CoD (either one), Eve or Wow, so you can stop saying it. Theres a new one going up every week so theres plenty of chances, just send the demos/videos and dont complain because yours didnt get picked.
 
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c'mon people, enough of the "what no counter-strike" comments, it didnt make the countdown, oh well. Neither did INS, CoD (either one), Eve or Wow, so you can stop saying it. Theres a new one going up every week so theres plenty of chances, just send the demos/videos and dont complain because yours didnt get picked.
Duality got the news award for this reason lol cant sum it up better then he did.
 
I will be a part of these clips. Get ready.

BTW great job media team. This is an awesome installment to EGO
 
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