What do you think of my filming?

[XImortalDEATHX]

It's fine, just needs a dab of touching up.

[adecoco]

Thanks for the feedback, I will keep trying to perfect it as I film more stuff.

[schnavolda]

try not to cut out the board which happened two or three times.

up to the trick on the flat bar you follow your skater with the floating cam, then suddenly switch to a more realistic filming by stopping the camera on the manual pad shortly before you flip off it. that doesn't make sense. why not follow the skater with the cam the whole line, the manual flip out would have looked so much better this way. if you wanted to give the clip a realistic looking touch by stopping the camera it just didn't work here.

[bohemian]

yea either realistic or not. this is both

[adecoco]

Thanks to both of you, this will help me a-lot. So if I understand correctly, either follow the skater the whole line or stay stationary in the same spot for the line/trick.

[schnavolda]

Thanks to both of you, this will help me a-lot. So if I understand correctly, either follow the skater the whole line or stay stationary in the same spot for the line/trick.

not exactly.

in a line it's hard to stay stationary and still having a good look at what happens. you need to follow the skater to a certain degree. the difference is in the way the camera moves.

in realistic filming, the motion of the camera is restricted to what is possible in real life. if your skater is followed by the camera man on a skateboard himself, vertical movement is only possible to a certain degree, so no going down stairs etc. single tricks like on hand rails are mostly filmed from a stationary position etc, just like you would see it in a real life skateboard video. lines ending with a gap result in the camera coming to a halt at the edge of the gap, like you did on the manual pad in the clip above.

in unrealistic filming you can do whatever you want. fly around with the cam to your heart's content. going down or up stuff, everything is possible.

in your clip you had a super realistic touch by stopping the camera at the last trick while having an unrealistic approach for the rest of the line with the cam flying down the stairs. this mix up doesn't work.

[adecoco]

Okay, so if I start a line with a trick down a set of stairs have the footage start at the bottom of the stairs before following and if there is a cap across something at the end have the camera stop.

[zGinger]

I definitely agree with him

It's fine, just needs a dab of touching up.