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Altitude - A Freestyle Ski Film

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gravel
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I'm pretty stoked to announce my season film this year: Altitude!

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This will be my second short skiing film that showcases Summit county skiers and my filming with them throughout the season. I'll be premiering it at the LHS Film Festival on May 7th and 8th at the Denver Film Center in Denver, Colorado. I'll drop the whole film at http://www.vimeo.com/gavinrudy on Thursday, May 9th.

Featuring -
Ethan Swadburg
Walter Wood
Alex Beaulieu-Marchand
Kai George
Levi Ascher
Christian Shackelford

If you want more information about the premiere and film, go to http://www.facebook.com/gavinrudymedia.

With that, here's the trailer:


Hope you guys are excited, I'm really looking forward to the final result.
Apr 7 2013 12:15PM
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Juicy-J
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that looks sick. looking forward to it for sure
Apr 7 2013 2:44PM
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buttrapinpirate
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Damn dude. Impressive. At first I thought you were gonna make a cheesy video with a promo poster that looked ten times better, but you delivered! It looks like you spent a shit ton of time getting a lot of those shots, and props for color correcting all of them to have the same feel, it looks really good. Major +k and I can't wait to see the whole thing
Apr 7 2013 2:54PM
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TijmenDal
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Hell yeah Gavin, that was tight man!

Really liked it.

One thing you might try next time is using a little faster intervals for your timelapses, they're just a *little* choppy sometimes. For example, the biggy puffy cloud shot a few seconds could benefit from a slightly slower interval imo.

Can't wait for the whole thing to drop! Great work man.
Apr 7 2013 3:29PM
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quixotic
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My first reaction:

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And I completely understand where you are coming from. Getting everything from scratch in the creative process is extremely challenging and I'd say that if anyone in this field denied piggy backing off others ideas they would be flat out lying. We use other works we love to inspire us and move forward with our own creations.

To me the colors seemed a little too washed out with not enough contrast. Colors are very subjective, and opinionated though. It felt to me that there is a lot of detail being left out of the shots with the lack of contrast and depth of color.

Audio. Where is all the audio of the skiing? It felt naked without it.

The kerning on the titles felt a bit too spaced out. I was struggling a little bit to read the names quickly and still focus on the video in the background.

Background music. Loved it. Had a perfect feel to it.

Composition of shots and the editing was done real well.

Overall, you are killing it man. Can't wait to see the whole thing.
Apr 7 2013 4:04PM
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Bmo.
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^agree with all of that

This is so sick Gavin. I think this could open a couple doors for you!
Apr 7 2013 6:15PM
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gravel
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This is the type of criticism that I SO appreciate, thank you for contributing.

I did take the sort of triangular blend of the Level 1 poster idea and incorporated it into mine, but didn't really try to imitate the poster. The kind of blue undertone/theme was a coincidence. And you're completely right, we use other works to inspire us, which is exactly what I did.

Colors are always opinionated, as you said, and I've kind of found my niche in grading and that's about where it is. I'll try to experiment more when I actually edit the film, but I think part of the resulting color is the picture style that I film in.

As for audio, this is my second year filming, and I've been slowly building my arsenal of camera gear. I used an 18-55 until around August, when I got a Tokina, and a Tamron shortly afterwords. I also purchased a Glidecam HD-1000. Needless to say, after those purchases, there wasn't much left to use for audio equipment. I've plans to get a RodeMic at some point soon, so I'll have audio next season. I'm also going to have one more film day before the mountains close and I edit the video, but I can possibly use the Zoom H4N from my video class at school to record a bunch of various audio that I can layer for the film, but I'm not sure if that can work out.

I'll keep the issues with wide kerning in mind when creating titles for the actual film!

Glad you liked the music, there'll be more of that (Emancipator) in the final film, as well.

Also happy that you liked my shots and editing. Every year I seem to not get the best of B-Roll on top of skiing so I'm hopeful that I'll have at least some filler for the film. I'm probably going to get a few interviews with some riders to throw in.

Thank you again so much for the feedback, it really helps to hear what you think and that you mean so by spending your time to get it all written out. I'll absolutely try to take those things into consideration when editing the final film.


Thank you to everyone else, too! Means a TON to hear that you guys are looking forward to it!
Apr 7 2013 7:10PM
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.qzyxya
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Looks sick! One minor gripe is that a lot of the shots looked over saturated (0:25) but with not enough contrast and look too flat, but with super bright colors. I think the whole film just looked to gray, and lacked contrast and true whites and blacks. Looked weird. But i liked the crop/anamorphic aspect ratio, looked really nice. And the follow cams and just the shots in general were fucking amazing, along with the titles which looked really good. Wow. But the contrast and saturation thing really turned me off on it
Apr 8 2013 7:40PM
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homestar
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Wow it looks really sick! I'm stoked to see the whole thing.
Apr 8 2013 7:56PM
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