Analyzing Sports With Film

[Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] just about every college and most high schools use movies for coaching football movies have been one of the most effective coaching tools ever developed every move every strategic play can be recorded and then analyzed later but while football has been proving the value of film analysis nearly every other sport has been left out in the cold and you know this is strange because analytical movies can be just as valuable to any other sport as they are to football movies can in fact help any coach improve all athletic performances movies can show a team how to work as a team can pinpoint plays that come off just right and those that go [Music] wrong slow motion studies can help develop coordination improve balance and timing and can show up The Kinks that happen so fast that they can't be detected by any other means all the advantages that movies give to football are just as applicable to every other sport perhaps there have been pretty good reasons for those other sports being left out in the cold sometimes movies haven't been too practical from a budget point of view and then two they usually required a certain amount of photographic skill to get usable pictures but those problems are over now let me show you the new movie system that Kodak has come up with a system that's just right for All Sports we've dubbed it the Super8 Sports analysis team it's a complete system a coach's camera coach's film and the coach's projector together an automated system each component has been designed to take all of the fuss and complications out of movie making with this equipment in your athletic Department each one of your coaches can benefit from movies of his sport because this movie making system is foolproof is economical and it pays off in results you've undoubtedly heard about Super 8 the dramatically improved 8mm film format pioneered by Kodak Super 8 is a real Improvement it gives you all the economies of regular 8 mm plus a great Improvement in image quality Super 8 film gives you 50% more picture area than regular 8 mm for bigger sharper movies on your screen but now let's take a closer look at the equipment this is the ector graphic 8 camera its special features make it ideal for sports Work loading nothing to it and believe me there's no way to load it wrong what's more you can unload and reload so fast you'll rarely miss a play exposure don't give it a thought each film cartridge has this indexing slot that tells the camera all about the film speed you don't have to set a thing the camera adjusts itself automatically to give you proper exposure for any location or light level there's a sensitive electric eye behind the lens to do all the metering for you the camera takes into account the speed rating of the film filming speed and the amount of light on the screen puts them all together and comes out with the proper exposure all without guesswork without complications the ector graphic 8 is a reflex camera you look straight through the lens that is taking the pictures you see exactly what the film is getting that orange mask is off camera so to speak but it lets you keep your eye on the play and still anticipate the action around the center of Interest the camera also has an excellent zoom lens that's powered by a battery it's 5 to1 Zoom ratio allows you to pull back for wide angles that show the whole situation and then zoom in quickly and smoothly for a close-up study of course you don't have to zoom you can use a lens to get the size picture you want this or this or anything in between this one zoom lens takes the place of s veral ordinary lenses like the zoom lens the camera is run by Electric drive but what makes this the ideal camera for sports is that it will run at different speeds permitting you to choose the type of analysis that best fits your needs 18 frames per second is for normal coverage 24 frames to slow down and smooth out the action and 32 frames for slow motion study we'll see in a minute how the action can be slowed down still further in the projector changing the camera speed is simple just set the speed dial for the speed you want and the camera makes all the speed and exposure adjustments for you now let's talk about film and lighting or rather the absence of any special lighting although we're shooting this film and color for fast local processing or economy you may prefer black and white either Kodak plus X or Trix reversal film Trix is that dependable film coaches use for Night Football it's fast enough for you to shoot indoors or in just about any other available light situation and get full coverage without any special movie lights Outdoors of course you'd pick plus X reversal it speed is designed to give you best results for daylight shooting right here we better say a word about your Kodak processor dealers the people who are set up to provide fast quality service for processing these two fine black and white Super Eight films and give you any other help or information you may need the last member of the Super8 Sports analysis team is the Kodak instatic M70 [Music] projector with the instatic M70 projector you can make your slow movies even slower by projecting them at 6 frames per second like [Music] this or you can go backwards and forwards for critical review or freeze the key part of the action you can project your film just as it was shot or use the highspeed control to race through the footage to the next particular shot you want to [Music] review now we've been preoccupied with details the last few minutes so let's stop and reconsider what we're really trying to accomplish that is to provide every coach of every sport with a tool to help his boys reach their top potential improve their individual performances gain maximum rewards from the time and energy invested in athletic programs every one of us who has used sports film knows for a fact that when a boy sees himself on the screen he has an insight and understanding that can be gained in no other way film doesn't lie it never forgets but it does leave an accurate lasting [Music] impression one sidelight when this picture you're looking at was being made the cameraman was besieged by the boys to see the results if we needed any proof of the value of these pictures the concentration with which they were received and the impression they made furnished it now before we wind up let me toss in one or two tips for your cameraman for games floor or ground shots can be dramatic but to see all the action and all the play on both sides your man up high if possible give him plenty of working room so he can follow the action freely if he's jammed in somewhere the crowd is bound to get in his way particularly if the going gets exciting again here's a quick kick from the ground nice shot of the kicker but that's about all here's the same kick in slower motion and from a high angle you see every man every assignment and you see how the play turned out for football basketball soccer and similar games the best general rule is to set your zoom lens for a picture just big enough to catch every significant man in the play and no more for individual performances keep in tight and slow the faster actions down with your speed control with the foolproof Kodak Sports analysis team these few tips and a little experience any student or faculty member can get shots like this every [Music] time [Music] so I guess that's about all I have to say for today but my one last word to every coach who wants his boys to live up to their full potential and what coach doesn't analyze your sport with [Music] film