The most effective basketball videos are a combination of a hi-light and game video.  A resume should accompany the video.

The video should begin with a short introduction.  The introduction can be live or it can be a still or moving picture of the player with the name of the player, uniform number, height, vertical leap, graduation date or classification, high school honors, address, phone number and e-mail address scrolled across the scene.

The hi-light portion of the video should be about 5-6 minutes long.  It should show clips of offense, defense, rebounding and running the floor.  College Sports Exposure has slow-motion capability which helps to emphasize select scenes. For example, if a player jumps in slow-motion, the air gap under their feet is emphasized. The hi-light portion can have music or no music.

Please click on     to see a Windows Media Player Movie of a basketball hi-lights video from College Sports Exposure.  The video is best viewed from a clarity point of view at 100 %.

The purpose of the hi-light portion is to encourage the college coach to watch the game portion.  In basketball, a good player may not touch the ball for 5 or 10 minutes because there are 9 other players on the court, 2 referees and time-outs.  College basketball coaches have told College Sports Exposure that if they don't see the player making a contribution early in the video they will turn it off and look at another!

The game portion of the video shows an entire game.  Coaches like to see the time-outs, half-times and wasted time before the administration of free throws edited out so that the video is more entertaining to view.  The game portion shows the good plays with the bad plays.  The game portion allows the coach to evaluate how the player handles the transition between offense and defense. Coaches do not want music on the game portion.  They prefer to listen to the game and hear what is going on during the game.

Many high schools video their games.  Most of these high schools use outdated VHS camcorders.  College Sports Exposure films the games on digital film which is a higher
quality.  The high coaches usually use youth to film the high school videos.  Many times they zoom in on the players too much and miss the targets the passes are going to and the transitions from offensive to defense. 

College Sports Exposure also marks the player with a dot. Dot marking insure that the colleges coaches spend their time viewing the proper player and not a teammate.

The video should be accompanied with a resume that gives the season statistics, record, player's name, address, and phone number, and the name of the coach and the coaches phone number.