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New Edit....critique?

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ThunderChunky can you expand more on the filming techniques? C.B. I generally try to stay away from fisheye but when you have people who don't know how to use the camera its easier to let them film with that rather than have them shoot long lens. Also what do you mean by variety? If your going by features I completely agree with you but there was a comp on the only other terrain park worth filming

I guess if either of you want to answer this question go ahead: How did the intro end up working out? I've had mixed feelings about it being a little over the top but then some people have said it worked really well...I kind of like it so unless other people think its dumb I'll probably use something like that for intros of my videos from now on (artsier, almost super8/bad tv effected type stuff). Thanks for taking the time to critique it though.
 
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C.B. I generally try to stay away from fisheye but when you have people who don't know how to use the camera its easier to let them film with that rather than have them shoot long lens. Also what do you mean by variety? If your going by features I completely agree with you but there was a comp on the only other terrain park worth filming
Yeah needs more features. But for what you had it was good.

Personally if i was going to spend the amount of time editing that you did I would have had at least another days worth of footage, probably footage from another hill too. But i think it was well done.

I liked the intro too.
 
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david_z....thats my coach! haha...all in good fun though

C.B. for next Wednesday we filmed 2-3 days....still not too much though. We rarely go to other mountains except for competitions and at that point stress level is too high to film....I'm going to be in Colorado for 2 weeks soon so expect footy from here :D
 
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yeah i had a hard time compositing that in and it couldn't go any lighter/less intense...i need to figure out how to do that better if I'm going to do it at all again...also could be computer screen making it dark i had that problem when i switched it to my laptop as opposed to the desktop i edit with

glad you like it too
 
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Intro too long, bad song for a jib clip. Too much flat box stuff. Needs more kickers - I stopped watching after 3 minutes cuz little rails are boring as hell. Spin and flip off of kickers and ill watch the whole thing.
For jibbing go with hiphop or punk. Pink Floyd is for POW

When you are filming jibs film the riders face side, not their ass.
 
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Editing and snowboarding is about creativity, and if I had used rap people woulda hated on that. And your going to make fun of a 9 1/2 year old kid for killing it on a flat box? Give it a year or 2 and he'll be doing it on a down bar....progression.

Also, 10 of the 16 riding shots after the 3 minute mark were jump shots.

Filming butt shots is better then filming straight into the sun and having so much glare you can't see the shot, and be aware that apart from me, no one knows how to work my camera so they were guessing on what to do
 
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Will is our coach. Its kinda just like a webisode to show what we were doing over the past week, not just Wednesday. Will was in this edit though. Thanks dude.

I think the music thing is more about tempo and creating a vibe. The song you chose just didn't fit the tempo of the clip IMHO.

Maybe try a few tunes of different styles out when you got some rough editing down and see where that leads (you've prob done this anyway!).

Don't take anyones criticism of your music selection to heart. You like what you like :thumbsup:

Only other thing can add is maybe to incorporate more lines to create a sense of flow. Less jumpy and it'll save editing time too...

Looks good otherwise man. Good stuff
I thought it fit, I was going to have the intro of the song end earlier but I forgot to do that....woops. Lines are good, most of the footy was hiking though, maybe next year there will be some lines if we ever get snow haha.

Filmings hard, especially when your editing footage others filmed. I get frustrated cause I have a vision to film something so when your editing it comes out supreme! And if the person doesn't see your vision or just doesn't give a shit cuz they think it'll come out fine it gets frustrating. Especially shaky follow cams.
^ yes. 100% yes. It sucks. You know what's up.
 
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I think the music thing is more about tempo and creating a vibe. The song you chose just didn't fit the tempo of the clip IMHO.

Maybe try a few tunes of different styles out when you got some rough editing down and see where that leads (you've prob done this anyway!).

Don't take anyones criticism of your music selection to heart. You like what you like :thumbsup:

Only other thing can add is maybe to incorporate more lines to create a sense of flow. Less jumpy and it'll save editing time too...

Looks good otherwise man. Good stuff
 
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Maybe due the same thing in like half the time.
This is just my general opinion and not necessarily specific to OP:

I think most people's edits are faaaaar too long.

I know it sucks to put all that work in to filming and stunting around but most people simply aren't good enough, don't have enough variety of riders, tricks, perspectives, etc., to pull off a 5 minute edit. For yourself & maybe your crew, yeah put together that 5 minute reel but, to anyone else, it's the equivalent of your aunt's old vacation slideshow.

If I had to have a ballpark figure I'd say keep it between 2-3 mins and most of that 2 mins to be actual snowboarding. Nothing is more irritating that watching a 3 minute video with a 90 second "intro" :)
 
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yeah that's more my style. tail block at 2:23 was fucking sick! the song was delightfully cheesy, but I liked it anyways.

I am sure there are people out there who will rag on it, but I like that sort of edit: cut the bullshit just show the riding and I don't care if it's all jibs (frankly I'd rather see jibs than jumps most of the time anyways).
 
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