Legendary Shots
The Legendary Shots (formerly Amazing Basketball Shots) is a series of basketball trick-shot videos created by a troupe of Hoover High School students and popularized through YouTube. Boys appearing in the videos include Carson Stalnaker, Jeff Keith, Chase Martin, Bryan Anderson, Barret Crawford, Jeffrey Higginbotham, Alex Watkins and Phil Latko, none of whom play for the Buccaneers' basketball team. Carson's mother Jill Stalnaker acts as the troupe's manager.
The videos are created by setting up cameras and filming as many shots as it takes before one goes through the basket, then editing the successful shots together, sometimes from multiple camera angles. According to Stalnaker, the average shot requires about an hour of misses, with some taking far longer.
Clips from their videos have been re-aired in commercials shown during the NCAA Final Four as well as at NBA arenas and Times Square. Stories about the videos have aired on ESPN2 and Fox Sports. The Hampton Inn hotel chain used one video for a series of short advertisements touting their rewards program and Flip video cameras have used footage in their national ad campaign.
In 2010 Big Communications hired the group, on behalf of the Greater Birmingham Convention and Visitors Bureau, to stage shots at Birmingham area attractions, such as Vulcan Park, Alabama Adventure, the Talladega Superspeeday, the newly-opened Railroad Park, and Sloss Furnaces.
References
- Anderson, Jon (January 13, 2009) "Hoover boys score big with 'Amazing Basketball Shots'." Birmingham News
- Anderson, Jon (January 14, 2009) "Hoover boys take shots at fame." Birmingham News
- "The Hampton Inn Basketball Commercials: teenagers, a basketball, a video camera and YouTube" (May 25, 2009) Sports Feel Good Stories.com
- Anderson, Jon (August 24, 2009) "Hoover High boys with 'Amazing Basketball Shots' get national attention again with new video." Birmingham News
- Diel, Stan (October 21, 2010) "Birmingham Convention and Visitors Bureau puts new angle on basketball trick shots." Birmingham News
- Diel, Stan (November 10, 2010) "Metro Birmingham's Legendary Shots star in Flip video camera ad campaign." Birmingham News
External links
- The Legendary Shots website
- The Legendary Shots channel at YouTube.com