Secret to a good muni video.



kington99 wrote:
> The one who barely did any riding. But seriously, im the guy in the
> middle of 'this' (http://tinyurl.com/ywz2vs) photo holding my uni in
> the air.


Thats a trials uni right?


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> why are koxx one unicycles so costly???
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> > They are expensive because they use only the finest soft drink cans.
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thejdw wrote:
> Yup Yup pi di yup
> Who were you on the london uni meet?

kington99 only ever seems to wear a grey t-shirt, that's how you find
out who he is!:D


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gkmac wrote:
> kington99 only ever seems to wear a grey t-shirt, that's how you find
> out who he is!:D



Actually on that particular day i wore a grey shirt purely for your
benefit. I've taken to wearing my white UDC shirt for riding.


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Securely strap/tape your camera to your uni frame, where the tube meets
the crown, or to you sea, and that makes a cheap, make-shift glidecam.


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their are no secrets to a good Muni video except to be really good and
haul butt down the hill. KH is the only person I have seen make a good
Muni vid and that is because the stuff he does is really impressive to
begin with.
Muni is hard to get across how hard some of the stuff is.


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> Koxx rapes Torker hard!




unifreak7 wrote:
> Where they should be - Holding your unicycle, ready to quit kissing and
> get out and practice.
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For filming steep descents, sometimes it's better to keep the camera at
the same incline the whole time rather than following the rider down.
That way you can really see the difference in movement between the
wheel and terrain instead of those all-too-common (and, yes, sometimes
great) shots where the wheel is centred the whole time. I guess what
I'm saying is use the entire frame of your shot.

Another thing that's kind of intinctive in most cases, is to make sure
you can see more of where the rider is going and less of where they've
come from.

Andrew


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For the North Shore bike videos will string a steel cable between two
trees. Add a pulley, a person in a harness to hang from that pulley,
an additional person on the ground to control the rope that pulls the
cameraman, and there's your glide cam for a tech section out in the
North Shore forest.

That's a lot of work for a shot in addition to the multiple takes that
will be necessary.


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kington99 wrote:
> Actually on that particular day i wore a grey shirt purely for your
> benefit. I've taken to wearing my white UDC shirt for riding.


not to self ;)


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> why are koxx one unicycles so costly???
> forrestunifreak wrote:
> > They are expensive because they use only the finest soft drink cans.
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Jerrick wrote:
> Securely strap/tape your camera to your uni frame, where the tube meets
> the crown, or to you sea, and that makes a cheap, make-shift glidecam.



I've dove that before! I aimed the camera to veiw the tire and the
ground infront, it was a cool veiw, untill I went down some stairs and
the cameRA fell off:p

that $14 steady cam looks cool I might make one.


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for steep stuff, having the camera on a hill with a different pitch, or
at the top looking down can help show the technicality (is this a word?
is it used right?) or the steepness of the slope


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Ride fast and aggresivly, more then you usually do. Espescially on
sections that aren't as difficult, ride hard and get air on small
drops/obstacles, stuff like that.


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The difference between a muni and a trials or street video is that the
muni video should tell more of a story. Trials and street videos are
just short scenes strung together to show the moves. There is rarely
any attempt to tell a story. After watching a trials or street video I
don't get a feeling of having been there or experienced the location or
the ride.

A good muni video (or MTB trail video) will show the ride as a story
with a beginning a middle and an end. After watching the video you
should be able to get a feeling of what it would be like to ride there
and what the terrain and surroundings are like. Show the trail as what
it would be like to ride from beginning to end and not just a bunch of
clips that only show the tech sections in a random order.


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john_childs wrote:
> A good muni video (or MTB trail video) will show the ride as a story
> with a beginning a middle and an end. After watching the video you
> should be able to get a feeling of what it would be like to ride there
> and what the terrain and surroundings are like. Show the trail as what
> it would be like to ride from beginning to end and not just a bunch of
> clips that only show the tech sections in a random order.


Yeah a story can make a good vid into a great vid. Best street vid
I've seen did this. I think it was called "4 am forever".

Lots of good tips so far.
The most important I think are:
-Good image quality.
-No shaking camera.
-Make liberal use of a tripod.
-Low camera angles include the whole rider.
-Do your best to show the max of your riding ability throughout the
whole movie (a Muni newbee could even make a really good movie)
-Multiple angles (if you don't have mult. cameras, just run the line
again).
-Good music (like Uni-D3 said)
-UPD's on doing hard stuff and easy stuff, like when you are tired.

Also:
-On steep sections should be filmed from the side and keep the camera
horizontal as you pan from L to R or R to L (akin to what Andrew
said).
-Not too long, keep your first vid under 2 min or so.


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