How To Make A Section - Part III

BentFilms’ new project Cop Me And My Newb Joey is just a few months away. A video compilation of the best submitted amature skiboarding videos. Each month we’ll be giving out some pointers on how to shoot/edit/make a legit skiboard seciton. Take these tips in, and you’re skiboard section could be put in the next BentFilms flick!

This month COMPLET SHOTS. Key to making you section interesting and entertaining.

Folks!

Think about a good photograph. The rules and neglect of compositional rules in one single photo is more then your brain mojo puke can harnass, so the possibilities with motion and shooting action is vast vast vast. Avoid setting up a tripod and shredding till your batteries are dead, unless the static angle is super tight! A four minute edit of the same angle on the same flat box is not what you want, and is gonna make you section long/boring/painful to watch.

Incorporating the slightest degree of cinematic intent can help your shots tenfold. Be creative and look at every time your boy hikes the jib/powline/tree defense spit mule kick/followcam off the lip etc… as the possibility to shoot an epic, or at least an interesting shot, even if dude doesn’t make the trick, how did the shot look? The complet lifestyle around skiboarding is much more vast than just the act itself!

Think of shooting in a narrative way. Rider come into frame from the left, the anticipation builds up as he rides towards the box/jump/rail/urban set up. The climax, does he land the trick? and then finally, he rider out of the frame to the right. That’s just one example with one shot. You can also think of the whole section in a narrative way, with a visual story embeded into the editting/filming. Give your rider’s personality, instead of unrecognizable people behind helmets/goggles/bandaners.

Check out RobotFood`s snowboard movies for a great example of COMPLETE SHOTS.