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Sin City Shooters
Sin City Shooters, is a video on a shooting competition, which is held in Las Vegas at Desert Sportsmen. Evelio Contreras’s video is a short clip looking into the world of shooting competitions.
The video did a great job with mixing different shots and angles showing the shooting competition happening. I liked that instead of watching a person talk about shooting the voice over came on while they were in action.
The extreme close up of the gun mixed with the medium and close shots of the people in action kept the piece moving. During the piece there were many medium shots of the groups of people together teaching each other different movements. The camera was in the action, which showed how they shot and that the shooting competitions are a community of people getting together.
One thing that I noticed that I thought could have been improved was the use of the voice over with a shot of a gun at the beginning of the video. I would have preferred to see the woman shooting because it was her voice over at the beginning of the piece. I enjoyed watching the video and thought that it was a great piece, which was a good use of video. I do not think that a written story or an audio slideshow would do this justice.