PROJECT OVERVIEW
APPALACHIAN STATE || 2024 SEASON INTRO
ABOUT THIS PROJECT
Sky Candy Studios produced the 2024 season intro video for Appalachian State Football in Boone, North Carolina. Built for in-stadium play before home kickoffs, the piece pairs cinematic camera work with layered effects to introduce the team and set the night’s tone.
It weaves Mountaineer highlights with sweeping Boone imagery and weather-themed moments – calling up the region’s changing skies and the program’s resilience. The result is a single, stadium-ready intro that welcomes players and fans while underscoring identity, heritage, and community.
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
- Client: Appalachian State Football
- Location: Boone, North Carolina
- Event Type: Season intro video for in-stadium play
- Services: Cinematic ground coverage, motion graphics, post-production
- Deliverable: A single intro film designed to drop into the game-presentation timeline
- Usage: Pre-game intro at home games, 2024 season
The intro needed to root the story in Boone – mountains, weather, and place – before meeting the roar of game day. It had to highlight the program’s identity with purposeful cuts and layered effects that support, not distract, and rise from quiet anticipation to a collective surge that sends the team onto the field.
The result is a tight arc – place → identity → action – that reads clearly from the stands and still holds up on repeat viewings online.
The film opens with grounded landscape views to place us in Boone. From there, the camera moves into football visuals – close, confident, and readable at stadium scale. Motion choices are deliberate: forward-leaning enough to build energy, measured enough to let faces, logos, and textures register. Rain and other weather accents are woven in not as spectacle but as atmosphere, echoing the program’s grit through the conditions its players know well.
Shooting in Boone meant working with the region’s changing skies and mountain weather, coordinated around team practice schedules, light, and venue access. We planned each location to deliver clean transitions from natural Boone landscapes into the football environment, so the final cut flows from place to program without seams.
Our team operated with cinema cameras, gimbals, and supporting rigs sized for the shots. FAA Part 107 certified pilots followed written checklists and site-specific risk reviews, with visual observers on every flight. We coordinated with stadium operations and the football program to keep the shoot tight, safe, and on schedule.
Editing treats the film as one continuous lift. The pace climbs in stages, with transitions guided by motion graphics and light effects that reinforce theme and rhythm. Color and contrast are tuned for legibility as the story moves from open-air landscapes to darker interiors. The master deliverable is a single intro built to drop cleanly into the game-presentation timeline, giving the program a repeatable open that works across the season.