Our Warren Miller season is off to a start - not a particularly fast start - but we are getting there, this is normal, soon it will be full steam ahead and I won't recall the date, day or geographic location of my person. Some nice trips planned for the next couple of months.
Here: Colby at the Powder Video Awards - notice the camera rig - Canon 5d with 14mm.
In Aspen we shot a 3 part piece with skier Colby West, we are sort of recreating the last five years of his life all shot in his POV - so like Being John Malckovich. The entire piece will be at most 90 seconds. He was a trooper - wore the camera rig all over the place at the X Games - capturing his life in it's current "Pro Skier" status - parties, training, friends, food, drink, more friends. It was very cool, next stop Breck for some of the back story pieces and his rise to fame.....
Thanks for checking in on me.
Cheers
Chris
Over the last few weeks been lucky enough to steal some time with Freeskier Colby James West - we first visited him in Aspen at the X Games and then the last couple days we met up with him at his home resort- Breck. The objective of the shoot is to see the world through his eye's. We basically recreated "with some artistic license" the last 4 or 5 years of his life and his climb to be one of the top pro skiers competing today. We used the Canon 5D with a 14mm to mimic his view, camera's mounted on his head, shoulder and chest take the view into the action, skiing, sleeping, eating, bro-ing down, crashing, even Yoga..... etc - everything that makes his world turn. It will be all cut into about 90 seconds of the film and will be really captivating for the viewers, especially those in the theater. In the pic above - Cameraman Colin Witherill is hooking up the 5D with a 15mm fisheye for a run through the park in Breck. Thanks to Colby for all the team work, he is a great talent, in front and behind the camera.
