College Sports Recruiting Portfolio & Video Montage

Sports Portfolio Highlights and College Recruiting Video Montage

COLLEGE RECRUITING VIDEOS

Impress your future alma mater with a sports reel that showcases your talents! Can you kick a football through the uprights from 50 yards away? Do your handles instill fear to the opposing defensive players and cross them up like Kyrie Irving? Can you hit long-distance home runs well beyond the fence? Let the creative team at The Montage Maven bring these untapped skills to life!

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William's Hockey Reel - Trailer

A sports reel is integral when applying to colleges and seeking athletic opportunities. What you put on paper is one thing, but seeing the requisite skill set is another. Our client, Richard, approached us with the idea of putting together a hockey reel for his son, William, who has a strong background in the sport. The creative team jumped on the opportunity! With help from Richard, we received a myriad of William’s highlights from the past few years. Being on multiple travel teams, there was plenty of content to choose from. In a collaborative effort, we were able to narrow down the proper highlights and put together a cohesive reel showcasing his talents. As you view the video, you notice an arrow over his head on almost every play. This helps the viewer to properly identify him and focus on the particular play, be it an impressive assist or a scoring play. This was accomplished entirely on Adobe Premiere Pro by the editing team. In addition to the full reel, there was also a request to make a shorter trailer. This consisted of select highlights from the full reel, and in addition, off-ice workouts giving the viewer a look at the way William prepares. While the full reel does give the full picture, the trailer serves at an alternate look. We had great fun putting this one together! Richard was extremely helpful in guiding the video to his and William’s vision, and the end result was two unique videos for college athletic administrators to see. It was a pleasure working with them! #HockeyReel #SportsReel #Hockey #Sports #CollegeHockey #CollegeSports #NCAA #AdobePremierePro #Adobe #PremierePro #VideoEditing #Video #Editing #PostProduction #themontagemaven

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William's Hockey Reel

A sports reel is integral when applying to colleges and seeking athletic opportunities. What you put on paper is one thing, but seeing the requisite skill set is another. Our client, Richard, approached us with the idea of putting together a hockey reel for his son, William, who has a strong background in the sport. The creative team jumped on the opportunity! With help from Richard, we received a myriad of William’s highlights from the past few years. Being on multiple travel teams, there was plenty of content to choose from. In a collaborative effort, we were able to narrow down the proper highlights and put together a cohesive reel showcasing his talents. As you view the video, you notice an arrow over his head on almost every play. This helps the viewer to properly identify him and focus on the particular play, be it an impressive assist or a scoring play. This was accomplished entirely on Adobe Premiere Pro by the editing team. In addition to the full reel, there was also a request to make a shorter trailer. This consisted of select highlights from the full reel, and in addition, off-ice workouts giving the viewer a look at the way William prepares. While the full reel does give the full picture, the trailer serves at an alternate look. We had great fun putting this one together! Richard was extremely helpful in guiding the video to his and William’s vision, and the end result was two unique videos for college athletic administrators to see. It was a pleasure working with them! #HockeyReel #SportsReel #Hockey #Sports #CollegeHockey #CollegeSports #NCAA #AdobePremierePro #Adobe #PremierePro #VideoEditing #Video #Editing #PostProduction #DVideoProductions

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Ananya's College Dance Reel

Ananya's College Dance Reel The Montage Maven is a leading video production studio, and our creative talents enabling high-quality cost-effective production of professional photos and videos around the world. The Montage Maven is a team of talented and creative producers with years of experience. We are able to help you create extraordinary movie montages that tell creative stories of their own. Your custom montage can be formatted to fit your style: from basic to classic to quirky, your video will be sure to reflect your personality.

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Sports Promo V2

Sports Promo V2 The Montage Maven is a leading video production studio, and our creative talents enabling high-quality cost-effective production of professional photos and videos around the world. The Montage Maven is a team of talented and creative producers with years of experience. We are able to help you create extraordinary movie montages that tell creative stories of their own. Your custom montage can be formatted to fit your style: from basic to classic to quirky, your video will be sure to reflect your personality.

The Montage Maven’s College Recruiting Videos are specifically produced to keep the college coaches and faculty engaged. We sort through the best highlights and put together a reel that immediately catches the eye. It’s important to draw in the viewers from the jump!

The Montage Maven has over thirty years of experience in producing professional college recruiting videos with numerous clients. Some of them applied and were awarded D1 and D2 scholarships and monetary awards. With our long-lasting experience, we are proud that our college recruiting videos keep the college coaches engaged and connected.

We know what the college coaches want to see! We can produce the video of your footage you shot, or film it professionally with our field-production crew.

Our videos will help you with marketing the athlete to the college coaches. We produce college recruiting videos for high school athletes from coast to coast, for those in high school sports. Between the proper footage, athletic data and information, academic information, and even how long your high school highlight video should be, we know how to get it done. This is valuable information when submitting your college recruiting video highlight reel.

Go above and beyond to make this first impression the best you can!

While the media often portrays the idea that college coaches will come knocking at your door if you are a talented athlete, that just isn’t the reality for most of the students who get recruited! You need to take a proactive approach to email college coaches and distinguish yourself from the hundreds of videos they receive.

Your initial emails to the coach should include a video link of your athletic abilities in competition. If you are in a team sport, coaches want to see game film, but most do not want an entire game. The Montage Maven can produce the right edited highlights for you to show off your abilities. Our experiences show that the majority of the coaches in the USA value video clips as a first step of the recruiting process.

Here are some important tips we follow when producing your sports highlight portfolio:

Most coaches want a video that is 3-8 minutes long. They receive numerous videos week after week, and the video is often the first step to getting a coach to come to see you play live. They rarely will watch more than the first 5 minutes, so make sure those first minutes start off with a bang and demonstrate your best competition footage.

We will show the action 15-30 seconds before and after the selected play. For sports that are constantly moving (lacrosse, soccer, field hockey, football), it’s important to show this, because the recruiters want to see how the play was set up, the impact of the decisions you made, and what you did after the play.

For team sports, we will show a large playing surface, especially for games like lacrosse, soccer, football, field hockey, and more. Even for indoor sports like volleyball and basketball, most coaches want to see your decision-making both on and off the ball. When the reel only shows the athlete up close, it provides a limited evaluation of their technical skills, versus showing more of their tactical decision-making.

We will place a circle, arrow, or other animation to help the coaches identify you from your teammates. On the stats page, we will label the team’s color, the position being played, and the jersey number.

We will also include your contact information at the beginning and end. Include your name, high school/travel club, graduation year, and email address. Again, coaches get hundreds, if not thousands of videos in a span of a few weeks. Including this information will help a coach differentiate you from the others!