Newb Critique Thread

Balbertt

Balbertt

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One of my first actual edits, I have been editing for a while but not seriously. Critique the editing not the riding. I know some of the shots could be shorter but I have no idea what I am doing. The equipment I used was a tripod (used it as a steady cam kinda) and a sony HD camcorder not sure the model.

A Evening With Paul from TheDailyBasisCrew on Vimeo.

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Filming wasn't too bad but there was nothing there to grab the viewer's attention. Most of the shots should be cool, with only some filler. Your's is a lot of filler and only a few tricks. When making an edit, cut out everything that isn't exciting then cut out some more.

For this edit, there's a whole lot of him just kicking, walking, and falling, then some tricks. The focus of the edit should be the tricks he's doing, with some walking around just to tell the story that he's just chilling, doing nothing special, making the tricks he's doing seem effortless. The problem here is that all the walking around and messing up makes the landed tricks seem like nothing special. Also, nothing changes throughout the edit. Go places, change it up. Just keep making easy edits like this and you'll improve real quick. Keep it up man.
 
thanks a bunch, your advice makes a lot of sense now that I think about it. Now that you said that I want to make a follow up vid. When I do I will post in here for sure.
 
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