With this assignment I decided to work with the business I have been working with for my two projects. I have already planned on creating TikTok’s for the Omaha Beef so I was able to come up with an idea to spread awareness of arena football. When I think of posts for sports, I usually think of edits. I love to watch cool edits with music over highlights of past performances. My favorite is a short video of Derrick Rose hitting a game winning shot with the song “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1” by Kanye West playing in the background.
This gave me the idea of doing a video like that for this TikTok. These types of videos usually get many likes on social media platforms due to them being intriguing and letting people relive a moment they watched in slow motion or with some other type of editing. Since I had an idea in my head I got to work. I found clips from arena football games and saved them to my phone. Next, I put the clips in an iMovie in the order I liked. The next step was to create an introduction with me in it. I decided to not speak and only point to text that I had placed in the video. After creating the introduction, I then had to find some type of music to include. In my mind, the only fitting type of music was Hip-Hop/Rap. This lead to me to choose a song with an up tempo beat. I decided to go with “Sold Out Dates,” by Gunna and Lil Baby. This seemed to fit perfectly with the video. After having the video created on the iMovie, I saved it to my phone and uploaded it to TikTok. The video below is the final result.
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