i love longboarding yo!!! Great camera you picked out. I'm hoping to get magic bullet looks too one day. Shit is expensive =X

I added you as a contact

Nice! Love the song too.

Your footage is looking really nice.

Forgive me if I take this opportunity to critique the work as a whole. I only feel the desire to because I see that you've put a hellavu lot of work into this short, and that it has huge potential.

1. I think you should lose some of the special effects. I found the use of overlaying in general pretty unnecessary. You definitely want to keep it interesting, but I think in so many situations in editing, less is more. Look how much drama many films convey using only 'straight' cuts. I like some of the time-correction you've got in there, but overall I think there is a little too much sped up footage, and perhaps not enough slow. Your audience can see that he's going fast, and in some ways, speeding up the footage too often will make them more suspicious than excited/gripped.

2. What I call 'tightening' (as in thumb-screws). I know what it's like. You've invested a good deal of money, and a whole lot of time into capturing the precious footage (and a lot of what you have here IS precious, believe me). Just thinking about your clips makes you feel warm inside, and now the editing process is like disentangling yourself from a great-fling-that-you-know-can't-last. You have to be militant here. Think of a slick TV ad (don't you just hate them? - But they've got one thing down, and that's how to keep attention). Really try to slim down the selection (a little), and the duration (a little more) of the clips. One way to try to do this is through movement continuity editing (look for cut points that keep our focus moving constantly through the frame).

Seriously though, I really enjoyed you video. The footage conveys an amazing sense of space and speed. The static shots are sweet too. The music works very well to create a lush mood. You've really done some justice to pleasure of longboarding. You've made something great, my advice would be to go back and make it perfect.

Let me know if you do.

;-)

jason

That was very helpful Jason. I know there are too many effects, but I just kinda wanted to use a bunch and see what I like after watching the video a ton of times. The necessity for better cut points is very true, in a few shots i feel like the clip is too long and i'm antsy for it to end. I need to clean the dust out of my DOF adapter, and line the focus screen up better as well.

"Just thinking about your clips makes you feel warm inside.",

Stoked you enjoyed the ride as much as i did J...

yo, I have been so wanting to use that song for a video, but its by The Beautiful Girls, not ladies. good work though.

this place looks really familiar. Was this shot on the central coast of California?

Yea San Luis Obispo, CA on Perfumo street.