Yet another no skiing video. Give it a look.

jibcrew1

jibcrew1

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Not to much to say about it there might be a little bit of shake in the running shots but i tried to keep it steady since i was shooting out of the back of a jeep..Enjoy..also he picked out the song it was definatly not my first choice.

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Ya, I'm with ya on the song choice. He probably chose the shirt too? I found the glow on his face from it in the first few shots distracting, also could have turned up his voice and turned down the music in that part as well. I honestly had a little bit of a hard time taking it seriously but it wasn't due to your part. Good luck to you and your friend!
 
Yes he did also choose the shirt but we also didn't expect the fog which kinda added glow since it was the only bright thing around i also had his voice up as high as it could go and the music as low to where you can still here it but not completely gone also i tried to color correct as much as i could to keep it natural but tone down the shirt
 
I understand that his shirt may have caused problems but i feel that it could have been fixed in camera when filming. I thought the first whole shot was so shakey for no reason...also the shoe tying part was too long. Id also refilm that interview at the end. I understand the concept of looking to the side of the camera but your angle was way too big. There were a lot of color issues at the top of the mountain too. Sorry to rip this apart I just felt like production quality could have been way higher
 
i tried to fix the shirt problem in post and while i was there it was literary just too bright, also the first shot did seem a little shaky not sure why though but i know where your coming form and the shoe tying seemed to drag but it also made it to where the song hit better in later shots and if you could tell me the color issues at the top i would love to know because i thought they looked pretty pleasing when i edited it in post
 
2:27 to me just seemed blown out. not enough contrast or something. idk just personal opinion i suppose. and i feel like the first brightness issue had to do with white balance because the background colors appeared a bit off
 
Well, there are definitely technical issues that have already been addressed. One thing that wasn't addressed was the interview. I get what you were angling at, with him looking off camera, but when the interviewer (you), asks the question that is clearly coming from directly behind the camera (because your voice is much more vibrant) then there is no reason for him to be looking off camera. It makes the interview look staged and unnatural. Music… As the producer, you tell the kid to scratch if his song choice does not fit. A. the SHM song you used, very popular and trendy, is way too big of a scope you are aiming for. You simply don't have the cinematics that support such a climatic/rhythmic song. B. Because the footage is not supporting the song, it makes the whole thing look comical, as if you are taking this too seriously. Which brings me to my final point, I get that this is supposed to be a serious short, with serious vibes, but because the poppy music is being played to weak subject matter, it makes it comical. What makes it all the more comical is the interviewee. This is nothing you can fix, and something you'll definitely have to deal with again, but the kid is trying to humble himself when he is clearly very full of himself for what he does. The monologue about the hard trails of his running, the mainstream music and the unnatural interview dragged this piece down far beyond the technical errors. Sorry if this sounded all too douchey, but it's just my opinion. I think you can definitely improve, and the ground work is there. Keep plugging away and producing, and your shit will reach another level.
 
also i didnt ask the question i just pulled the mic off the top of the camera and pointed it at the person asking the question and then at him
 
the running shots were real good considering it was coming from the back of a jeep which are notoriously rough anyways, those worked, the beginning in end, i would honestly drive up and re-take, the beginning was not good, not hate just u wanted criticism, shirt was way to bright. looked like his face was lime green, school, and mountains were too, the end i get you were getting the main focus on him but you could have gotten more of him in the frame then slowly move out to see the parts of NC he was talking about, i get u didnt chose that stuff but for his own good thats all i have
 
i understand with the beggining and the end shots we planned on getting some shots of the town but he said it so quick in every take that there wasnt enough time to throw those shots in there also in the last shot if we had more of him in the frame then a family off to the right would have awkwardly been in the shot
 
I think it was well filmed and I'm not hating with this comment, but I must admit I giggled when the drop of that Swedish House Mafia bro-song coincided with a cut to a shot of him running wearing those fast goggles.
 
As I suspected.

The original one is better in my eyes, you added a weird green cast to the edited one that's just strange, the original isn't bad. also edited one seems a lot flatter.
 
I mean compare the 2(the vimeo one is the one you used for the edit, the other one is the original with a tiny bit of blue added to the highlights)

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i do agree upon further review that the original looked better but at the time i thought it looked good if i can find the time i will change it also some update news for the internship he made it into the top 10 out of the whole country and has a interview with under armour Thursday morning
 
Sweet, good luck, I have done the same thing where I have tried to color correct so much that I messed the clip up worse then it was originally.
 
bump glad to know i am not the only person and also i might add that this was the first full length video i had done outside of skiing the only other one was forty seconds long
 
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