2009 Cal Football Promo Video
(Written by kencraw)
Wow, what a promo video this year:
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It’s almost cruel that they leash that on us with nearly 5 months until the season starts. Aren’t you excited after watching that?
I’ll echo others who have said this is their best promo video ever, except for one aspect. I don’t go for the whole “attach the stats to the player” ala Nascar. It makes it very difficult to read. They should have made them more static on the screen.
But that’s a very minimal issue with what is otherwise an awesome video.
April 9th, 2009 at 11:06 am
I’m going to very politely disagree Sir Crawford. Yeah, they weren’t too easy to read, but the whole point was the whole variable effect. Too slick.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I understand what you’re saying, but I’ve learned long ago that cool technology is not in and of itself a reason to do something. And trust me, as an engineer I lean towards more tech than less tech. Of course there is the wow factor, but in this case I think the lack of readability out-weighs it for the stats. Now the name/number tracking the player, because it was a larger and bold text, that was cool and worth doing, but the stats either needed to be made more readable or put somethere else on the page.
But we’re picking at minute issues when overall everyone agrees it was awesome.
April 9th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Anybody know how to download or embed this one?
http://www.calbears.com/ot/09fb-renewal.html
April 9th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
To gobears09:
Here you go.
http://www
April 9th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Wow. I’m pumped in April. Scary.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
THANKS danzig! love what you do at CGB!
May 1st, 2009 at 2:54 pm
I think the whole point of the connected stats was to make it “more video game” (indeed they even reference “moves out of a video game” – the idea being that our moves, our players, are bigger-than-life surreal.
I loved it.