Ribbesford Woods - Mountain Biking video

It's nice but a little short. Really liked the punchy opening. Not keen on the numerous panning shots and would be nice to see alternate angles of the same piece of track, or an edit which makes it seem more like a seamless run. Would also be cool to have seen more shots from the camera rigged in the trees. There's some really nice camera movement present though and the footage has been graded nicely. Overall, liked it!

Currently working on my own Mountainbike short documentary, which will hopefully be about 15 minutes long, so its nice to see someone doing similar stuff on here!

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Some really good shots. As above with regards to length though, the intro was half the video!

How do you approach a shoot like this? I have ideas for things in this style but I either find that as I am usually partaking in the activity I can't do any of the filming or trying to organise my friends into getting these kind of shots is impossible.
 
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personally I contacted a bunch of riders on the internet and got responses from a couple that were interested in what I was doing. If you do it yourself or have friends into it, this should be a much easier task than knowing very little about it or nobody that does it.
 
Deific said:
It's nice but a little short. Really liked the punchy opening. Not keen on the numerous panning shots and would be nice to see alternate angles of the same piece of track, or an edit which makes it seem more like a seamless run. Would also be cool to have seen more shots from the camera rigged in the trees. There's some really nice camera movement present though and the footage has been graded nicely. Overall, liked it!

Currently working on my own Mountainbike short documentary, which will hopefully be about 15 minutes long, so its nice to see someone doing similar stuff on here!

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Thanks for your comments. Yeah I've had a few people tell me its too short, but it was just a test really using my new camera equipment so wanted to get a video up from about 2 hours shooting.

Just out of interest which of the panning shots were you not keen on? Also, good point regarding more angles to make it more seamless, the 2 times I did do it I did it by accident without really thinking about it at the time but it worked out alight in post for the times I did it.

We did have more cable cam shots, but the first few shots with it were too shakey as we forgot to put the weight on! Adding weight to the rig made it a lot more stable.

Nice video, will be interesting to see your finished video. Whats the story? I'm actually going to start filming my own documentary this weekend which I have been planning for a few months. Its for a uni project, but its going to be based around trail builders and lots of action of people ripping the jumps!

What camera/lenses/other equipment did you use for your video by the way?

geuben said:
Some really good shots. As above with regards to length though, the intro was half the video!

How do you approach a shoot like this? I have ideas for things in this style but I either find that as I am usually partaking in the activity I can't do any of the filming or trying to organise my friends into getting these kind of shots is impossible.
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Thanks for your comment.

As Deific said, it is pretty easy if you know the people. The video above is my brother, but for my documentary I'm doing I've just contacted people via forums and facebook that I don't know, shown them my work and generally people will be more than happy to help.
 
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It's at 0:51 seconds in the camera starts to pan as he takes the jump, which makes the cut to the other angle look strange. Then the following 3 clips are all shot from the same side of the rider on bends, making it a confusing sequence and breaking the flow of the sequence as a whole, but it's a really promising video for a longer future project.

Story behind mine was that I'm finishing studies soon and wanted to add to my professional portfolio, so just wanted to go out and film something cool. Didn't know any riders or anything about mountainbiking though lol! Shoot most of my stuff on a flycam but my lenses aren't great and I'd love either a much higher quality zoom than I have or a wide angle - but a flycam is great, can be really useful for adjusting height of your shot like in the clip I took below. Were you using any tracks/dollys?

 
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Deific said:
It's at 0:51 seconds in the camera starts to pan as he takes the jump, which makes the cut to the other angle look strange. Then the following 3 clips are all shot from the same side of the rider on bends, making it a confusing sequence and breaking the flow of the sequence as a whole, but it's a really promising video for a longer future project.

Story behind mine was that I'm finishing studies soon and wanted to add to my professional portfolio, so just wanted to go out and film something cool. Didn't know any riders or anything about mountainbiking though lol! Shoot most of my stuff on a flycam but my lenses aren't great and I'd love either a much higher quality zoom than I have or a wide angle - but a flycam is great, can be really useful for adjusting height of your shot like in the clip I took below. Were you using any tracks/dollys?

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Fair enough regarding your first pan, I actually liked that but its cool to hear someone elses opinion about it. Will definitely think about it for my next video.

But yeah, I didn't really understand the importance of it all flowing when shooting - I do now, its kinda lucky really how it almost flows.

Yours looks cool, you'll have to let me know when you release the final one. I used a video tripod on a slider, so I could just use it as a tripod if needed or use the slider if I wanted that shot. Heres a pic of my setup on the day:

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