I got into film making and video production though extreme sports, it’s a subject I wish I could shoot and edit every day however living in the uk its not something I get to do every day. Id been trying to make a bmx video for years apart form to Russia with love and park sessions 2004 this is the first proper bmx related oriented video I’ve produced, when I say proper I mean with the skills and equipment I’ve got now and the standard of the rider.
The rider is keelan Phillips who is one of the best flatlanders in the world. Check his web site out www.inertiashows.com
The video was shot in different locations’ across Leicester over 3 days.
. The video was shot on a sony z1 which is a 1080i HDV camera. Sadly I don’t have a fish eye for this camera so it meant I was shooting conventionally from a tripod.
Day1
Very lucky with the weather manages to go filming for 2 hours and clock 23 mins of footage. On this day we shot in a school using a z1 set to “cinine look” it was decided that we wanted a contemporary look. The cine function on a z1 give a really jittery look kind of like the film 28days later.
At the end of filming it was arranged that we go shooting the following day. I suggested going early and 9am is deemed early, not quite what Id consider early but there you go.
Day 2
I get a text at 1.34am keelan has had nearly 3 sandy’s and wants to put back filming by an hour. Mistake as I no the tennis courts at kington park in Leicester will be being used. We get there and get 18mins before the second court is taken over by tennis players.
For this shoot Iain Jaques the second cameraman is using a canon 5dmk2.
Day 3 scheduled for kigton park again on the tennis courts. We tried doing moving footage but it was unsuccessful. Only one clip made it in to the video.
In the end the footage from the 5d was binned. There were some exposure issues. The 5d sees white as being white with zero detail, where as the z1 sees white at 108%. This means its possible to recover highlights detail on the z1.
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