New Video: Family Vacation Episode 6

I enjoyed it, nice work.

ive only estched the first 3 minutes, and i gotta run, but i just wanted to say that so far the pacing is soooo good. not dragging on at all, but not jumpin around too much

^what he said. to be honest, at first i couldnt sit through a whole episode. but the last few i have thoroughly enjoyed. good job

I really enjoyed watching it!! They are very smooth and entertaining for me it is easy to watch the whole thing and be entertained the whole time, the actually shots are so crisp and clean that I don't even consider what could be wrong with them because it feels like I'm watching a tv show or something. The only Thing I have is that there should def be other stuff you do like in ep. 1 when you went cliff jumping and trampoline and whatnot, I think the vibe on that one is just a lot more fun and exciting, But besides that your doing Great and good luck on ep. 7

Nice work. Next season I would love for you guys to hike features and setup shots and not just follows. Follow cams get old quickly IMO.

Great Shots, Great colors, and you do tell a story well which a lot of people do not unfortunately. My only gripe is the over use of follow cams, but that is just personal preference. Nice work!

exactlywhat i was going to say sick dit but way too much glidecam shots( i know glidecam shots are easy and fast to do).

Great episode. Super solid with killer song choices that gave it a really good vibe. Agree with some more tripod shots within the edit to break up the follow cams. Overall very well done.

Yea I mean you are good at that glidecam... I would say shoot more setup shots maybe even create some cool features depending on your time schedule... also filming more of the "experience" as a whole. Not just shots of the park riding.

First off, you as a filmer/editor progressed a lot throughout the season so props on that.

And along the lines of filming the experience as a whole, I definitely agree with screamin_seamen. I felt like the one aspect of a webisode that you lacked was developing personalities and characters. What I really enjoyed about your pilot episode was that we got to see the riders as normal people outside of skiing. You lightly touched on that here and there throughout the season, but I still feel like I never really knew who the characters were. They simply became good skiers behind facemasks with their own unique styles, but with no personality. I imagine you spent a lot of time together in a car or just hanging out and there had to be some funny moments, but we never saw too much of that. I also feel like it could break up the episodes a little more rather than just being two or three edits stacked together into one big edit. Like I said, I thought your pilot episode did an excellent job of capturing the vibes and their lifestyle and was broken up well.

That could all very well be just personal preferences, but it's just something that struck me from episode-to-episode. And as stated before, I definitely think you progressed a lot from the beginning of the season. Overall, good job and good luck with future endeavors.

Im really bored, so in depth critique time, it's broken up by the segments:


some of the stevens shots, the more over cast shots, you could have brought the whites up a little bit more, even if you were going for the more flat desaturated look. You lost some detail in the snow

I definitely think you did a better job matching the colors/look between different lighting better in whistler.
the slow mo was mixed in tastefully
good vibe in this section, more shenanigans would have put it over the top

You could try to be more creative with your transitions, not just fade to black.

the tandem might have been better sped up

T-line was definitely my favorite part.
It had the best variety, audio was on point, colors were nice and consistant. I loved the shots/cuts

I think you could have worked a little bit more with the songs, cut to the beat, etc. to really tie the audio and the video together.

Overall it was really nice, great shots, great riding

Sick as usual Abe but didnt really stand out to me. Seemed just the same as all the other webisodes and not any better or any worse.

I agree with most of what has been said already. I would really like to see more tripod shots and you to get nasty with your editing. You have so much more potential and these are already amazing but you could take them way further.

For episode 7 or ep1 of next season i say try something completely different and show us all how versatile of a filmer and editor you are as well as how creative and original the kids you ski with are.

oh and for god sakes please show the full clip of a trick from at least one angle. Huge pet peeve of mine is when people change the angle half way through a trick or just for the landing (which you did many times (sorry to accuse but i have to)). I makes it look cheap and fake to me and i have a hard time knowing exactly what trick was done. but thats me.

The 100% glidecam issue is something I was worried about even before I put this out, I'm glad that everyone noticed that problem.

I'll be looking to fix that in the future when I can put together content without worrying about deadlines and ideas of how long/complete a webisode needs to be. I had a total of 4 days on snow to shoot this, I doubt I would have completed it with something as time consuming as a tripod.

On the topic of "too many follows", I personally wasn't bothered much by it. I've never really disliked something solely because there were too many follows.

The only thing that bothered me were the colors, they seemed really really flat, to the point that blue skies looked like overcast.

That being said, episode 6 was rad, glad you got to make it up to Hood! and congrats on a solid season of edits mayne

for coloring please darken your blacks

I agree with matt.. picture could use some saturation but I dug the feel. Except for that middle song.

you say this as though it is an absolute rule when it absolutely is not. color is extremely subjective.

i'm not a fan of dark blacks because you start to lose detail. rather, you can add a cool hue to your blacks, and a warm hue to your mids and highs. cooler colors appear darker than warmer ones, so that will add the appearance of contrast to the shots without a loss of detail.