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snowboarding video doc input
Thanks everyone.
Most of you have pretty good points. Including Arvin :-) No doubt, lack of freeriding footage was my biggest problem. Juani "Arvin Chang" wrote in message om... What's good: - I thought the Option Marketing guy explaining the differences between a freeride and a freestyle snowboard was informative and intelligent (although a wannabe snowboarder wouldn't understand most of what he said. - I like the snowboarder talking about freeriding and freestyling as well... (guy with the thirty-two stick on his board). Err... going back Kevin Sansalone You have a lot of nice footage of people doing rails and park jumps, mixed in with some silly antics stuff (people hanging/dropping off of chairlifts, people hanging on rails, etc). Bad: First you repeat some action shots twice in the video... like the guy coming down the powdery bumps The narrator sounds like he's trying a little too hard to sound cool, maybe that and the script he's reading from. Kind of reminds me of dj at a hiphop radio station trying to plug some local dance party. The narration is inaccurate and has a rather freestyle-centric view on everything. Freeriding to me means no (at least very few jumps...) I mean the pro rider you interview says "freeriding to me is... not filming, not jumping, it's just riding, riding power, carving." I mean that's pretty much the exact opposite of what the narration says and what the video is showing in the background. Let's not mention that you completely omitted alpine/racing snowboarding. True it's a tiny percentage of the snowboarding population, but if you want to be a informative video, you should at least mention it and show a little footage. (Aside in terminology) Personally I don't consider all-mountain and freeriding to be the same (unlike the narration). First there is freeriding vs freestyle, the first is mainly carving/turns and the second is mainly tricks (jumps/rails). Then ontop of that is "all-mountain" which basically means (to me) that in addition to groomed trails, you ride the entire mountain... trees, bowls, backcountry, etc... So you can have all-mountain freestyle (which is what the narration believes all-mountain/free-riding) abd all-mountain free-riding. Which is different from regular freestyle (in the park/pipe) and regular freeriding (down groomed trails). Back to the footage... it rarely syncs up with what is being discussed. It's just jumps, rails, snowboard antics... repeat. Like during the section free-riding... you have absolutely no real free-riding or all mountain footage. Having a few second of people just sliding straight down a blue/green slope without actually carving doesn't count. Setting up a rail in the middle of the woods doesn't count either. Get some footage of people carving through powder, cutting through the tree, or laying out a line on groomer. Even if you can get in some heli-boarding footage like the big production videos... you can still include some footage of people riding through the trees or actually carving... I'm pretty sure I didn't see a single linked carved turn in the video (just some guy sliding on a cat track). Finally if you want this to be for aspiring snowboarders... maybe you could provide information on where to go to learn more (websites, snowboard camps, etc). Summary: Great camerawork. Good interviews. Not so good narration Not so good content - incorrect or missing information, not particularly well organized. Like what information are you trying to pass on to wannabe snowboarders. Not so good editing in terms of matching the background with the topics being discussed (it's fine if you're just blasting some music like a regular video, but I think you need to work making the footage complement and emphasize what the narrator and interviewers are saying). "Juan Parra" wrote in message .ca... try this link http://zedstatic.cbc.ca/users/j/juan...rdtech_web.mov if you have the latest quicktime installed, you should be able to play it. cheers juani "Switters" wrote in message ... On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:54:45 GMT, "Juan Parra" allegedly wrote: http://zed.cbc.ca/displayContent.do?item_id=46839 what's good, what's bad? |
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