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Game or Practice Film Review Service

Film review is one of the most commonly offered remote coaching services in sports. Most coaches have their own unique workflow, but PointShot gives you the freedom to customize and centralize much of your process in one place. This article walks through configuring your first video service and offers a few suggestions to make it work for your athletes.

For a full walkthrough of how to configure a service, check out Setting Up Your Services.

Who could offer this?

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Film review is most commonly offered by:

  • Team coaches
  • Skills & position-specific coaches
  • Evaluators
  • Mentors & advisors

But other specialists can find plenty to work with in game and practice footage, too:

Conditioning coaches Analyze strength and stamina across a game or practice and build a development plan.

Mental performance coaches Review high-pressure, high-emotion moments and offer strategies for handling them.

Who might purchase this?

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Every player can benefit from film review. It’s one of the best ways to reinforce concepts discussed in practice and skills sessions.

  • Game review can help train IQ and identify areas of focus for future practice sessions.
  • Practice film review enhances learning right after a session. Coaches can offer “hybrid” on- and off-ice services where a post-session film review is an upsell on the live work.

Configuring the service

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Open the Services page in your dashboard and click Add a service. Give it a title, description, and price.

Write a clear description

As a best practice, your description should tell the athlete exactly what to expect from the service, and exactly what they should submit at checkout. This helps you deliver an effective service that satisfies and supports your customers.

At the top of the service configuration page, make sure the following settings are adjusted:

Leave “Recurring” offA film review is a one-time deliverable, so keep the Recurring toggle disabled. Recurring is meant for ongoing, subscription-style relationships.

Leave “Quantity Adjustable” off Unless you’re selling a multi-review pack, keep Quantity Adjustable unchecked so athletes purchase a single review at a time.

Required Inputs

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Under Required Inputs, enable Videos. Once it’s on, you can set a Limit on how many videos the athlete can submit.

When to accept multiple videosA limit of one is fine for most reviews, but there are good reasons to allow more:

  • Comparing a given situation across multiple games or practices
  • Multiple drill videos from the same practice

Keep in mind that when an athlete submits a video, they can also select individual clips within it to highlight what they want you to focus on. See Purchasing Services for how that works on their end.

You can request Files and Responses as well:

Files Turn on Files to have the athlete upload documents, images, or other file types alongside their footage. This is a great way to request a recent evaluation or development plan, or up-close images of something like a goalie’s stance. When Files is on, choose which file types you accept (Documents, Images, Other) and optionally set a limit. See Setting Up Your Services for more information.

Responses Turn on Responses to ask the athlete form questions at checkout. For example, you can ask for their thoughts on a game or practice, or have them identify their goals for the service. When you enable Responses, a section appears where you can add and save multiple prompts.

Save before you leave the page

Prompts and other input settings aren’t stored until you save the service. Make sure you hit Save (or Save & Enable) before navigating away.

Completing the job

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Once an athlete checks out, a new job appears in your Open Jobs page with the inputs you requested. The footage is front and center: open the job and you’ll find the submitted videos at the top of the Customer Files tab.

Click the three-dot menu on a video card and proceed to the editor, where you can clip and annotate the athlete’s video. See Editing Videos to learn more about the video editor.

Sharing examples and returning your work

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Some coaches like to give athletes examples to study, such as clips from pro games or reps from high-level players in practice. You can also return files and feedback to your customer. Switch to the Share More Files tab to send those back.

Example videos and clips Attach videos from your library and send them to the athlete to view. When you attach a video, you can also select individual clips you’ve created. For example, if your video shows multiple reps of a drill, you can highlight and annotate the one you want the athlete to focus on.

Returned files Use Files the same way an athlete would. Send development plans, reports, or images back. Mark up a photo, or attach the next phase of their training plan.

Feedback Feedback is a text box for general notes to the athlete, separate from any files or video annotations. Send a written summary, key takeaways, or what to work on before the next review.

Ready to deliver?

Once your clips, files, and feedback are in place, you’re ready to submit. To complete the job, you can either change the status in the job header or click the three dots and select “Mark Complete”. See Receiving & Completing Jobs for the standard job completion process.