my first bike video !

jairaj

Hey All,

This my first mountain biking video. Im the rider, its been shot and edited by my mate Scott. Hope you enjoy:

http://vimeo.com/23645311

VWsurfbum

nicely filmed, just shame about the rider LOL

cooldad

Didn't watch it. Must be rubbish if you posted it here.

jairaj

yep sorry its not very rad to the power of extreme but its the best I could manage. I was trying to give it some beans hence the few falls.

cooldad - give a watch even if its just for watching the falls and laughing at me

cooldad

Even the crashes are rubbish, no blood, no bones sticking out.

'Hub mode on' Like the trail - where is it? 'hub mode off'

ps Your taste in music sucks.

jairaj

sorry im still relatively a noob at riding, still working on impaling my self on a branch. I've only just learnt how to graze my knee.

the trail is in Whippendale woods in Watford.

Anonymous

Well, you put it on the internet expecting feedback, so here it is.
Crap. Boring riding, boring looking trail, music adds nothing to it.

Why did you think it was worthy of wasting anyone's time? If you're doing it as a project for yourself, great. But there's no need to stick it on the internet, where there are ultimately far better things we could have wasted our lives watching.

bartimaeus

Liked it... the framing of many of the shots was very good, the tracking shots worked really well (you have a glidetrack?) and I really liked the balance between the 'riding' and the 'setting'... reminded me of a recent atmospheric ride through some bluebell woods near my home. In fact the only bit I didn't like was the use of fade to black dissolve/cut which did not work for me at all. Good work... post up the next one when you've done it!

jairaj

Sorry if you didn't like it Yehaa. The trail is not as technical as the trails you have in Wales but I still think its fun and interesting to ride. its also very scenic. I quite like twisty flowing woodland single track. I also think the music works well helping to set a nice chilled out theme but I guess music is a very personal thing. The terrain is not very knarly and my average riding skills were never going to make it the most exciting video so we choose to go for a chilled out, happy go lucky theme which I think we pulled off quite well.

Thanks for the positive comments Bartimaeus. No glide track, just a steady hand.

cooldad

I quite like flowy singletrack. Might have to take a drive up one day.

jairaj

You're most welcome to pop up over here. Its no where near as big a Swinley which I would imagine is your local. Its fine for spending a couple hours but might get repetitive after that.

cooldad

Yeah Swinley is just a few minutes ride away so easy, but ride Surrey Hills mainly.
A new bit of scenery is always good though.

sheepsteeth

i quite liked that, i thought it looked pretty well shot and although im not inspired to go and ride there, i thought you did a decent job.

i did think you looked like you could afford to be in a higher gear all the time though, you seemed to be spinning the cranks like mad but not getting anywhere.

mak3m

Sweet video

Didn't like the music, but the framing of the shots and the clean edit was excellent particularly if that was your first vid

j_l

Good Vid but the music was SHITE and adds now't

Dan Dare

Not bad at all!

leaflite

I thought it was very good, especially for a first video.

Raymondavalon

7/10

Music ruined it and the almost flat terrain didn't do the video much justice either..

Fenred

As above soundtrack was gash but really enjoyed the way you shot and edited it, top effort....keep them them coming.....

Father Faff

I'm crap at this stuff. Got a Helmet Hero cam for Christmas and still can't get it to link to my PC. Do I have to do something like download some software or what? Good effort even making a vid if you ask me!

bennett_346

Father Faff wrote:

I'm crap at this stuff. Got a Helmet Hero cam for Christmas and still can't get it to link to my PC. Do I have to do something like download some software or what? Good effort even making a vid if you ask me!

are you joking me? pop the usb lead into the camera, turn it on, then plug it into the computer

concorde

Quite enjoyed it. Liked the falls too. Def need to select different gears though. You were spinnng like mad and no speed was being picked up. You'll have more control in the right gear too, tp accelerate out of trouble :-)

ollie_lucas1985

The music made me fall asleep.. I slipped off my hand (I was resting on) and faceplanted it into the keyboard, I think I broke my nose..

Thanks!

Very arty - Not bad "Shooting" - Nuff said!

t0pc4t

I liked it, were you using filters to get all those different colour effects?

jairaj

thanks for the comments. next time we'll choose a different genre of music.

Yeah I was spinning out on the gears a bit, the drive train was very dirty and wouldn't change well so I stayed single speed for most of it, thought it was the better compromise .

The final editing was done by my mate (and music choice), I can ask him more info on the filters used if needed. It was shot on a pretty basic consumer camcorder so there is definitely some filtering going to give the saturated colour look but Im not sure what. We also filmed it on 2 separate days and the light was very different so some balancing was needed.

Father Faff

bennett_346 wrote:

Father Faff wrote:

I'm crap at this stuff. Got a Helmet Hero cam for Christmas and still can't get it to link to my PC. Do I have to do something like download some software or what? Good effort even making a vid if you ask me!

are you joking me? pop the usb lead into the camera, turn it on, then plug it into the computer

Yeh, that's what should happen, but not for me!

bennett_346

Father Faff wrote:

bennett_346 wrote:

Father Faff wrote:

I'm crap at this stuff. Got a Helmet Hero cam for Christmas and still can't get it to link to my PC. Do I have to do something like download some software or what? Good effort even making a vid if you ask me!

are you joking me? pop the usb lead into the camera, turn it on, then plug it into the computer

Yeh, that's what should happen, but not for me!

have you not thought about popping gopro an email?

concorde

or selling your gopro to me for a tenna. Wasted on you