As the off-season approaches, now is a great time to take a look at the game-time experience fans had in your gym or stadium this season and find areas where you can bring even more excitement.
To help you brainstorm what kind of content you and your students can create for next season, we've compiled a round-up of fan engagement content and graphics from ScoreVision customers across the country. We encourage you to get inspired by these ideas and put your own spin on them!
Before you create any graphics, check out our top 7 tips for designing for LED video scoreboards.
One of the most impactful graphics you can make to recognize your players is a player card. After rosters are determined and headshots taken, create a simple template and add each player's headshot, name, and other information like jersey number or position. Player cards make for great content to fill your automated pregame sequences, and to have on hand to trigger after the player makes a great play.
Create a graphic featuring the names and/or logos of the schools in your conference. This graphic is simple to make and can be used season after season!
Consider making simple matchup graphics for each of your home games. You can make a whole season's worth of this graphic very quickly by starting with a template and changing out the sport and away team logo. Millard West High School adds this graphic into their automated pregame sequences.
Welcome the fans and athletes of the away teams by creating welcome graphics. You can save time by using one consistent background image and adding each away team's logo on top, as shown in the inspiration image from Millard South High School below.
If your teams offer theme nights throughout the season, add to the fun by customizing your brand wrapper to match the theme. Millard West High School creates a matching brand wrapper for nearly every theme night, ranging from pink-outs for Valentine's Day to an Ugly Sweater Night!
Show sponsors some extra appreciation (or add this to their sponsorship package!) by putting your top sponsors' logo on the brand wrapper alongside your school's branding. If you don't want to show sponsor branding throughout the whole game, consider using ScoreVision's exclusive feature that lets you pre-schedule the brand wrapper to automatically change as often as each period. This feature is used often by Glenwood High School, shown below.
Recognize your cheer and dance teams during their halftime performances by creating a simple graphic from their team photos. This graphic makes for the perfect backdrop to their performances. If your teams have won awards recently, add those accomplishments to their graphic like Millard South High School did in their graphic below!
If you don't want to wait for team photos or want to make a graphic that can last season after season, consider making a text-based graphic instead. No matter what, your cheer and dance teams will appreciate the recognition during their performances!
Honor notable alumni and teams by featuring a team photo from the archives alongside their accomplishments. For award ceremonies or banquets that will be held in your gym or stadium, create a simple graphic that can serve as the backdrop for the event.
Take inspiration from professional sporting events and create simple animations that engage fans at halftime and other breaks. These could be activities like trivia, puzzles, quizzes, and other games that get fans excited and keep them entertained. You can even incorporate your top sponsors' logos and products to give them extra recognition and generate more sponsorship revenue!
Get inspired by this "Guess the Celebrity" puzzle animation made by students from Ysleta ISD:
If you or your students have experience working with video and animations, consider adding your top sponsors' logos to some of the most commonly used sport animations. Many sponsors would be happy to increase their sponsorship commitment to have the additional exposure for their brand.
This type of graphic is pretty easy to create, and we hope it's one that gets lots of use throughout your next season! Simply create one victory graphic that you can use for every home game your teams win next season.
We hope this post has sparked all kinds of creative ideas that you can bring to your own ScoreVision system. You can find even more sources of inspiration here and check your new content against our tips and best practices for designing for multimedia scoreboards.
Stay tuned for more resources to help you design fan engagement content for your ScoreVision video boards. In the meantime, check out the most recent installments of our new ScoreVision Spotlight Series to learn how ScoreVision customers around the country are excelling at generating revenue, exciting fans, using ScoreVision outside of athletics, educating students, and more benefits of having a ScoreVision video scoreboard!
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