So I think one of the favorite pre-game videos happened for the Notre Dame game. I knew I had to come up with something really good for an ESPNU game.
I personally liked the Muhammad Ali speech in the background to clips of the team. I love sports and history and I know that there is no one who can give a more entertaining, poetic (because of his rhyming) and motivational speech than Ali. I thought the one minute video to Ali would be motivational so I included it. Plus the year before at Notre Dame I did something similar with Michael Jordan, and we won, so being superstitious I tried to do something similar again.
I also picked out 300 Violin Orchestra for the highlight part of the video since I thought that would be a really great song to pump everyone up. It just is one of those pre-game songs.
I also saved the best Dulski saves for this video. I had several saves that I just was holding onto on my computer for the right moment. I made sure I lined up those saves with the beat of the song. I put a lot of effort into the highlight part of the Notre Dame video.
Now to the part that everyone cares about, the off the field stuff.
The off the field stuff was first requested by our assistant coach for the Colgate game and it was a great idea. The team requested off the field stuff for the rest of the games so I obliged. It was a lot of fun to make them.
The idea for Notre Dame came to me quickly.
The inspiration for the Irish Dancing came 100% from Jessie Frech. Jessie Irish Danced before the game at ND in 2010 during warm-ups. I knew that we were confident and loose and ready to go because of that. Her dancing just gave me good vibes.
I decided that we should have Irish Dancing be a part of our pre-game video.
I also wanted to have a lot of people who were important to the team show up in this important game. I wanted those who weren't traveling to be involved. I wanted Cuevas to say something on camera. (She will be a captain, and All-American one day) I also wanted Kacey to be involved since she was around. I also knew that making fun of Cory would really get everyone's attention so I had her wish Cory a happy holiday in Cory's adopted religion.
Drea also wasn't traveling so I wanted to have her talk. Another one of the reasons I interviewed players was to get to know them better, and Drea was someone that I felt I should get to know better, so I had to have her be a part of the video. I got her to come over and Irish dance on camera for me and get interviewed. I also thought of her and dancing because someone said she was majoring in it by accident during our pre-season interviews at our first team gathering.
Drea did her best to Irish Dance and I had to give her credit for actually going along with it. I wasn't sure she would actually do it.
I thought I was done with filming, but the stars aligned and I had more work left to do.
As I was leaving I ran into Mika and Charno. Not sure why they were still around. Maybe they stayed late? Anyway I stopped them and got them to take part in the video.
Mika was someone I wanted to say something because she is awesome. I also thought she would actually try to Irish Dance if I asked her too.
I was right, she did, but in the process of asking her that I found out something better. Charno volunteered the fact to me that she actually knew how to Irish Dance.
She put the nail in her own coffin. She was going to Irish Dance.
Without too much persuasion she started Irish Dancing. It wasn't awkward, it came pretty natural to her. Mika was going to dance with Charno, but after about a minute of filming both of them I decided that we could just focus on Charno because the whole Irish Dancing thing wasn't doing Mika's entertainment abilities any justice.
Once I saw how good Charno was at Irish Dancing I decided that not only would she dance for us, but she would also teach us. I had her instruct us how to Irish Dance. 1...2,3....4,5....6,7....
I was amazed by how good she was. I even zoomed in on her feet moving. I knew I had a great video coming together after her dancing.
Based on the response on the bus, which was people laughing pretty hard, it must have been memorable and well received.
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