Denard Robinson Hype Video

..the music fits a young man as classy as Mr. Robinson. He seems to be a man of substantial faith (from his interviews and his kneeling after TD's) so out of respect for that I would of toned down the language. I am WAY OLD at 34, so anything after the "Glen Miller Orchestra" is blasphemous.

All that being said as someone who edits video I say great job coming out of the gate. The next video better be all Zoltan Mesko. Love me some Zoltan.

Nice video.  The song's not horrible, and I presume he chose it for the "Under the Lights" given the coming night game -- which is kinda neat.  But the language is pretty bad and there's no way anybody with kids is going to listen to that with them in the same room.  If he's that good an editor, why not steal and blend music from a few sources?  Could still keep the "under the lights" lyrics along with whatever else fits. 

but i thought the music was sick. I understand parents may not want their children watching it, but that is ok. Just like R-rated movies, not everything is for everybody. This is clearly designed for my generation (late high-school, college, young professionals etc.). I personally hate edited music because it is destroying the artist's intended message and hence, I was thankful for it.

Also, your video editing skills are mad legit.

All in all, you got me to watch a 15 minute youtube video and i want to watch it again. That is impressive.

Golden work.  And props to the proud bro.

As for the soundtrack, I turned it down so I'd get the hype feel from the music without being distracted by...  Can someone translate that first song for an old fogey?  "You're my wah-wah" or "I'm wah-wah" or whatever it was? 

I feel like I need to come down from this by watching the D highlight tape. 

Because right now I'm thinking "10-2 next year isn't out of the question". 

Personally I like to feel hyped by hype video music.... and rap just doesn't do it for me.  I ended up watching it to this:

 

1. too long.  But still some great highlights.  I'm sure it would be hard to distill it down. 

2. music that drops the "N" word several times is very uncool.  I would think that a Michigan hype video would be above that.

Great work on the video!  This definitely got me pumped for the season.  The ending was fantastic with the fight song.

First, thanks to your brother for making this.  He put a lot of work into it, and it's a huge joy to watch.  Note that I said "watch" and not "listen to...", but here's what I liked:

1.  Picked the right clips.  The hard part of a vid is knowing where to draw the line on what makes a memorable highlight play, and he drew the line just right.  

2.  The little off-the-field extra clips were a great touch.

3.  Heisman effect in the ND game was brilliant, even wish he'd held it for an extra few seconds.  That was a sweet, sweet effect.

4.  Great editing, knew just where to make the cuts to keep it moving without making it too choppy.  I thought the length was fine.

Criticism:

File this under "get off my lawn" maybe, but I had to turn the volume way down about 5 minutes in and just watch.  I hated the music.  I shouldn't even say music, just the lyrics (the music was actually good, great rythym.  But the lyrics... it was constant F-bombs, N-word, Gangsta culture, money and hoes, basically everything that Denard is NOT about unless he's pulling one of the great con jobs of all time.  Of all these, it's the constant N-word in songs I just couldn't stand.  I'm 40 now and I hate that word as much as when I learned in elementary school about what it meant, where it came from, and the place it had in American history.  It makes my skin crawl.  And I hated hearing it paired up with a kid like Denard.    /rant

I really wish your brother, who is obviously pretty talented at making vids, would consider picking some music that fits Denard a little better.  Also, this is just a style suggestion, but it's always a great effect to turn off the music periodically and run the live audio call from the game on a particular play, like maybe the 87-yd run against ND or something.  Then go back to the music.

EDIT:  ok, posted that before reading through the other comments... looks like I managed to add not a single new thing to this thread.  So let me just say that I learned on NPR this morning that there is a popsicle on the market that is designed to look like David Hasselhoff (from the waist up).  It's called the Hoffsicle.  I've now added something new to the thread.  

Not a fan of the music, though. Keep up the good work.

Watching this just makes me sad because if we would have had an avg defense we would have won a few more games and kept this dynamic offense.

There's just one problem: it needs to be a Michigan hype video.  No man is bigger than the team. 

The team, the team, the team.

Borges PLEASE have some shotgun packages for this man. I know Smith took a lot of flack on this board, but I think there were some times where he would sell the hell out of the run, then all of a sudden, Denard is taking off for a big gain, or for 6.

I thought the video was awesome, and I liked the music.

OMG A SWEAR WORD!!  I'll bet you're all saints who've never uttered even a remotely crass word in your lives, certainly not at a Michigan game, and certainly not in the precense of young kids.  Jeesh.

good video, highlights were good.  You know, overall I think the music choices could've been better (and I listen to rap music, so GOML), the opening song was alright, after that, the songs were trash.  Maybe --Manio ft T-pain - All the Above.

Also, as much as I liked this highlight video, it'll have more feel to it when the majority of the highlights aren't vs UCONN and UMASS.  Overall, totally unjustifiable rating : 6.5/10

Great music.  It's 2011.  For some, this is difficult to accept.

... but I agree with many others about the content of the music. Please find some other more positive music other than the constant N-Word every 5 seconds. This is not the way to represent such an honorable person like Denard.

Really like the opening sequence...

Let's hope we have as many great plays this year -- along with a defense to match!

I sorta like when these type of highlights have commentary in response to a big play. 

Nice work.  Great video.  Jeopardy question was a nice touch.

Nicely done, though add me to the list of people who did not like the music.  That horse is beaten to death above.  Maybe more of a mix of music would help?

I appreciate the distribtion between run and pass.  It must have been very tempting to focus on the jaw-dropping runs he had.  Adding the passes showed that he has an arm too.  Hopefully, he will make even more progress as a passer.  (Can he get any better as a runner?)

If we only had an average defense last year!  Damn you GERG!!!!!!

Now i'm ready!  bring on the Rotel and queso