Criticize this skate edit

Mar-O

Mar-O

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So I have been working on this little skate edit for a long time now but haven't felt that I got it to work and that I had enough clips, but now I decided to post it anyways and hopefully some of you guys have some tips on what I can do to make it better. I am probably going to re upload it if some of you have any tips on the editing. I am also really not sure if I can use the song that I have in it, I wanted something slow to go with the fact that the skaters were skating pretty slow. But now I felt that the song was way to boring but I am not sure, thoughts?

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(watch on vimeo for hd verson..)

 
i didn't like the font at the beginning that much, kind of boring

You cut off the riders head a lot. It kind of looked like you were trying to focus on the feet/board, which is totally fine and can work really nicely, but if you're going for that, shoot even tighter. It seemed in between trying to get the whole rider and focussing on the feet/board, pick one or the other.

I don't think the problem is that the song is too boring, just that there isn't a good connection between the clips and the music. Try to work more with the music: cut the shots to the beat, use shots where the action matches whats happening in the song (a little bit more abstract there, haha)

Cleaning up your cuts, less lead in and runout, would help to keep the edit moving. Like at :44 you could eliminate the need for the fade transition by using the song and quicker cuts

I didn't mind the transition at 1:08, but the focus wasn't smooth, you can keyframe a blur to help that, and I would have used a longer crossfade with the second clip starting a bit later.

The main points, IMO, are the framing (tight vs. whole skater) and the disconnect with the song. Pretty good job though!
 
Thanks, hadn't really thought about that the framing and that it should have been tighter but now I totally agree! Maybe I can try cropping the image just a little bit. Also I will change the font in the beginning before re uploading it, and try to work more on making the cuts mach the music. At 01.08 I will try to make the focusing better with blur and keyframing, didn't think of this but I was very annoyed with the focusing being so bad.

 
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