What would you like to see in a ski movie

SirFryanator

SirFryanator

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To start off, I'm not making a ski movie. My buddy who skis whistler just got a nice camera and is going to be looking for some killer shots next year.

Basically, I hear all this talk about "groundbreaking films" or "artistic shots". I think MDP did a good job with some artistic shots in the "Picture This" trailer and MSP does some of the nicest sunset slow-mo shots ever, but unfortunately this guy doesn't have as big of a budget.

What does the biggest online skiing community want to see?
 
film from a ladder on a jump or over a rail, those always rule. also do that thing where you are focusing close up on a tree, then you focus in on the background and film some skier doing a sick trick. and make him good at follow cams like jon hatveit...o and helicopter shots rule, try those.
 
use a boom for your camera and get some above head shots orr of drops and stuff.. like they do in WSKI.. and some sick pow skiing to make people jealous.
 
u can film park multiangles with one camera. get them to do the exact same trick twice or learn how to freeze time and duplicate entities
 
shifties, shifties with rails, flatspins.

Instead angles. switch follow cams. If you do this show, it will be sick, you have the camera man doing a zero spin, filming the skier in front of him, hitting the same jump after him.
 
Coaches did that at high north last year I think it was colby who zero spun the 70 foot table or something like that and filmed olenick (I don't remember exactly who).

I'll tell him to learn zero spins.
 
I bet there will be lots of those.

What are "artistic shots" for you guys?

I've been talking to him and he wants me to help him since I'm skiing whistler next year. So I'm thinking of doing a segment of all natural stuff.
 
Follow cams! I wouldnt mind a movie with just follow cams, could be sick. Make sure to get some cool time lapses as well.
 
alright so this is what I've told him to start investigating so far:

an open area with cliffs and BC tree/log jibs

a spot to film from a tree for a jump or rail

lots of follow cam jibs/cliffs

places to build smooth takeoffs onto a mellow slope in order to do zero spin follow cams

I might be getting a cheap helmet camera for my birthday so I could ask him if he wanted to use that.
 
That could be cool, sure. Helmet cams always look shitty to me, but you should check out some of the boot cams that WW films did a few years ago with Candide... that was some sick stuff. Go for a high quality one if you can.
 
Ya, thatd be neat

same place in the summer and it lapses in between, in the winter ur all like skiing and theres an intense song playing, then it switches to the same place and its summer and all calm with like birds singing, then it switches again and its all intense

or get a song with a really good bass beat and it like blinks in the summer shot every wutever beats. stupid mosquitos- i hate them, as i write this, theres like three of em, buzzing around trying to eat me. o, 2 now... that felt so good to kill the freaking bug.
 
That's what I said up above.

I guess he can try some of that moving camera stuff but you need a really good camera to make it look that good slo-mo.
 
it takes a shit load more then a nice camera to make a good ski movie

tell him to learn everything about the camera

shutter speed, wb, apeture and exposure. exposure is important for ski filming excpecially

 
he's taking cinematography classes in the school I'm going to be going to.

I expect he'll know a ton about the camera when I get out there.
 
i camera doesnt make a movie

there are pro filmers out there making films with trv900s which are like 800 bucks

there are kids out there with hdv's that dont take it off auto

i mean no one wants to see a movie full of nice artistic shots with kids with no style or skill

so i would say i want to see talent
 
invest a few hundred and get a jib arm for your camcorder

spend the summer learning how to use it and become good at then take it to your hill and you will get some sick shots that will give you some really cool angles

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i was talking to a professional cinemotographer who is kinda helping me about buying cameras and teaching me stuff. and that s exactly what he said.

"it's not the wand it's the wizard"

p.s. he got into filming by buying a camera when he was thirteen and making little ski movies.
 
thats a really good idea. you could do something like this for the rider introduction before their part, like have the rider stand in the summer place, and then have the next shot be the winter place with them standing in the same spot, and then start their segment.
 
very true, but if you know how to film well, a better camera can only make it better, but i agree 100% about the kids out there who dont know what there doing and just go out and buy a $2500 camera
 
maybe see if they can ski without poles!!i dont think anybody's done it before......................
 
im kinda not so into big budget, and big budget looking movies. tired old angles. go watch a skate video. film a ski film like that, close up, fisheye or wide angle, lots of just having fun, check out YES/NO/MAYBE by Voleurz to see the kind of attitude thats fun and friendly.
 
Not such a wise investment if you're just getting in to things. Sure boom shots look cool but the money could be spent in much more effective ways.
 
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