No real comment on the video other than I wished it showed more surfing.

That is one of my favorite waves when it is working well.

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mohandas K Gandhi

Thanks Riddle! I havet go thru all of the video and the stills to see what else I have. I think I have to agree with you, probably a 60/40 mix.

It didnt work for me, but i dug the tune.....keep tryin

wave looks fun but there's not really any good footage of the wave getting ripped.

my suggestion....do more with real time and slow motion...slo mo all the time is kinda a drag.....

Thanks for the input, I appreciate it. 

The pace needs to be picked up.  Some slow mo is fine, but this is over kill.  The underwater shots would be better used under the credits, or as a start to the clip. The strange camera angles last way too long, and really have no place in the film other than transitions.  

I think you could make something really slick out of this, but it will take some cutting.  If the clip was half as long with the same shot list you may have something.  

At the point you have this now, it is very hard to keep the viewers attention.

All that being said, I admire the fact that you have opened your creative process to the masses on the internet.   And I am sure you know this can be a tough crowd around here. 

Thanks Doink2.

I agree that it is too slow moving. More overlays transitions may be the answer. The intent is not to be a surfing film but to capture the essence of the experience for people who have no experience. Some input from a non surfer , non water person was that the feeling of drowning was overwhelming because of the lenght of the underwater scequence that goes to white. That is what I am driving at, forcing the veiwer into an uncomfortable place to understand that there is a price to be paid for the experience of riding a wave. 

Hard to get really punished at panga though unless its big, and you eat crap on the first wave of the set and get pummeled by the rest before you can manage to paddle outside the reef to the right or left. With that said, more surfing please.

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mohandas K Gandhi

Thanks for the explanation dab.   I am around this type of creativity for a living and although I don't cut picture, I do provide the sound design that goes along with finished video.  

I can't wait to see the finsihed product!   

One day I will have to ride that break, looks fun!

Thanks Doink2.

I would be interested in hearing more about your experience with sound design. Some of the cutting was forced by the lyric track along with the music track. I honestly don't like that. 

Ridleme, Holding a camera on a broom stick on a board in the impact zones w/ a pacific 6' - 8' swell is not without it's challenges. Paddling one armed puts me in awe of Bethany. 

Next time will have fins and a matt.

I missed a shot of a guy paddle back out on a long board on the left side of the peak (where you take off for the right wall) and getting caught ever so slighly. He threw his board up and over the lip, the wind caught it pushed it into the lip and launched it. He swam in to recover the two peices of his board.