
How To Make A Section Part - V
February 10, 2008
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 FOCUS & DIRECTION. Without it, videos are a visual diarhea of randomly assorted clips.
The most successful videos have FOCUS & DIRECTION in every aspect of shots and edited clips together. This is helped exponentially by foresight. For those of you who watch skating videos, you know that they sometimes use a hip hop or a rock theme to hyper-symbolize the riders overall section.
Although we encourage you to look beyond this typical hip hop or rock theme into a broader, less stereotypical and oversaturated sense, they are good examples of SPOON FED focus and direction in a video. When thinking of your shot, its important to think of all the shots you previously got on tape, and the spots that you are going to get next. Keep it uniform or make it clusterfudged. Regardless, have some direction!
A good trick to this is correlation of filming techniques and styles like the ones we’ve talked about over the season.
Focus and direction will keep everything coming out of the screen clean, comprehensive and appealing. When making a section, from filming to editing to location, having an idea or purpose beyond what is simply in front of the camera lens makes it much more interesting. Talking to your riders about what you want to accomplish is KEY! Hindsight is 20/20 but foresight is essential.


















