Hockey Sounds from Scott Duffy on Vimeo.
I’m not into hockey, but I love the way this piece delivers the sound and the feel of so many hockey-related things with quick cuts and great audio. This type of edit seems like it could be a useful tool in stories where you’re trying to give people a sense of place and movement without a full scene. The fast pace and curious noises pull the viewer into the piece in a sequence that would make a great intro or transition.
In the first second – from 0:00-0:01 – the filmmaker crams in three tight shots: a flood light flipping on, filling a water bottle, and sharpening a blade of a hockey skate (love that shot). Each of the shots feature movement and sound, giving a rapid-fire feel to the piece right off the bat. The opening cuts move so fast that the shot of the spinning roll of tape at 0:06 feels long because it lasts one full second.
I like how the shots vary between hands and objects and faces. It’s a lot to follow, but I think that is what makes it visually interesting. If too many of the shots were just objects, it might not hold the viewer’s attention for a full minute.
At 0:08 there’s an interesting sequence that goes from a medium shot to a tight shot and then back and forth again: 
It’s four cuts in less than four seconds, but because it goes back and forth on the same guy, it draws extra attention. It seems like a fun way to highlight a fast-paced action without cutting together a full match-action sequence. I think these jump cuts work in the context of the piece.
There’s another sequence that starts at 0:15 that makes quick work of patching a hole in a backyard ice rink in your backyard. We see a tight shot of a guy’s finger in the ice, then a wide shot of a guy collecting snow in a pan, a tight shot of stirring the snow, a tight shot of scraping it over the ice, and then an overhead shot of the guy on the ice.
That sequence is played out by 0:19, and then we get a breather with a “long” cut lasting five seconds with a bit of music before diving back back into more rapid-fire cuts that race through the process of making an ice rink.
A few shots are recycled – the foosball table, siren and washing machine stand out, which could represent hockey games and the subsequent washing of the uniform. If you need to cram a whole hockey season into a minute or compress time in any story, this is one way to do it. As the filmmaker describes it in the Vimeo post, it’s “a whole bunch of good ol’ Canadian hockey in under one minute.”