Feedback on first urban edit

Too much extra shit. The time spent skiing compared to the rest of the footage... Is not good. Not to hate, but you guys should work on your skills at the hill before you try urban. I mean the first scene where you drop. What was that....? And I wouldn't show that last part if you can only grind two feet of the rail. Just curious, how old are you guys? Just keep working at it and you'll get better in time
 
Not so good.Seriously work on your rail skills before filming another "urban edit". Don't put in so many clips of building, this could have been a 30 sec edit. Pan so we can see the landing. Panning was shaky. Don't have clips of you trying to look cool in front of the camera you look like grom swagfags. Don't put in clips of someone not making a rail, unless its a sick bail. Overall boring as fuck edit.
 
Haha this. Next time take a little more time to film multiple days instead of putting out an urban edit in one day. Filming urban is difficult and it will take a lot of time to get good shots. The pros don't film an urban segment in one day! Otherwise great start I can tell you guys are young and motivated.
 
1. learn how to slide a rail2. stop filming so much extra shit

3. find actual urban, not a skate park rail

4. film the skier don't just let him drop out of the camera view

5. learn to ski

6. stop wearing tall stuff and fulltilts because this type of stuff is a disgrace to skiing.
 
^you guys are all assholes. yeah it had a lot of boring footage, at least they are producing footage and attempting to make an edit (COUGH COUGH SPLICE), to those who made the video, you got a lot of things to work on in the future, take what they said with a grain of salt and apply it to future videos.
 
Most of the shots were shot way too tight (ie too zoomed in) you don't wanna cut off any of the rider in any given shot. Also there were too many senseless lifestyle shots:-The building shots should have taken up half as much time or even not have been included

-The fist pan of the park through the fence was fine but far too long

-Classic "click in" shot, kind of over done but sometimes cool. You shot it a bit too wide and it looked awkward. The pan up to his face was also a little awkward feeling.

-Another building shot, not really needed and quite long.

-The shot of your friend making gestures to the camera cut him out of fame quite badly and was really corny anyways.

-Shot of the kid kicking around his skis...what's going on...

-The pan of the bridge was really choppy and even if it was smooth didn't show the viewer anything about the spot you're about to hit. Maybe a pan of the bridge from the ice below it would have been nice, showing how gnarly it would be to bail off it. And another thing i noticed was how big the tranny was, it was like a park rail. Typically the focus of urban is balls out craziness, you want to show your viewer the consequence of what you're doing. A tranny 6 inches below the rail is just monotonous, that stuff is for a resort park.

-The next couple of shots don't really have context and don't add to the story, I don't really understand what was going on with the shovel time lapse.

You could tell you guys were in over your head on that bridge and were really scared to fall off the other side, get comfortable with your ability before you go out and try urban. I'm not trying to make fun of you here, I'm just pointing out thinks that weren't the best so you can learn from them. Remember it's waaaaay easier to get a usable shot if you shoot wide. A good rule to live by is if the shot has anything noticeably wrong with regards to filming don't use it.

I also looked at "A Day in Paradise" and i gotta say I'm jealous of the snow that you've gotten. Just keep at it, watch a few edits from some other guys on here and try do take what they're doing in their videos as pointers for what to do in yours. You can set exposure which is better that a lot of people, just focus on composition.
 
Yeah that was just harsh of them. But I can somewhat understand what you and all but the true assholes are saying. This is my first ever year of filming any type of sports. I've been starting from scratch and as for the editing, it's still a work in progress
 
Thanks so much for the advice and constructive criticism! I really appreciate it and will work on it better for whatever I put out later on this season!
 
1. Agree

2. NO, don't ever tell someone to film less. You mean but less in the final project

3. Meh, do whatever floats your boat.

4. Agree

5. Agree

6. Stop telling people how to dress
 
I think most of the people on here are right, but they didn't have the right to be assholes, but they were still right. You should incorporate less extra stuff, but that doesn't mean film less. All the extra stuff that you had in the middle should be in the beginning near the start of the song, otherwise it takes to much from the video. But you don't want a frigging ton of extra stuff unless the intro to the song is a long. Also you should get better at rails otherwise making an edit of yourself will make you seem a bit silly. If filmings your thing and you want to continue with that, (nothing against your friends) but I suggest going to your local hill and finding someone that actually knows what theyre doing and film them, that way you actually have some quality footage to work with.
 
There has been a lot of great feedback already given but one thing I did notice was turning down the background noise or video audio. Wind noise is just awful so mute it, for some shots its good (sound of skis on rail etc) but when its just wind or random people mid in the background it can be unpleasant.

Other than that keep filming, try and really improve atleast one thing with each edit. Look back on your edits and think what would you have done differently and just keep progressing. Shit I dont think anyone can say there first edit was golden. Everyone starts somewhere just keep having fun and getting shots
 
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