Dieter!!!!! I will submit this year and win.

Hi Guys - With this being such a technically focused Forum I decided to share some production craft - How to Shoot an event.

I have been shooting all sorts of corporates for 15 years - but I really enjoy covering events where the pressure is on to be good (enough) and fast.

This was a Windsurfing event I shot in Jan 2018 in Australia where i was the solo camera man, drone operator, host, director, interviewer and editor.

I talk more about all the elements you need for complete event coverage and not so much about camera specs - although the camera set ups i use are strategically chosen and very capable in a demanding solo shooter event coverage scenario.

I try and be as cinematic as possible but in an environment like this you lean more towards fast coverage.

I cover everything from shot selection and timing, interview craft and cutaways right through to measuring how effective your edit was at getting attention.

For those of you with nice cameras and lenses sitting in boxes I hope this inspires and guides you to push yourself hard in creating some content.

@TimTomTum

Well, we did not have such case before.

If it is good, post it.

Totally music short called "Tetris", had shoot for two days. I bellive that short brings you much more emotions than any modern movie.

The Film above was great - the lighting truly beautiful - I can see how much work went into it

and blue clothes for skin tones works well.

The static camera is actually very refreshing and helps with focus. Don't get too carried away with camera movement because I dont think your style really requires it.

This shortfilm is the result of a cinema wokshop I gave by the end of 2017. With no money and a lot of passion, we spent one busy and funny saturday shooting from rain untill dusk, putting the theory to test.

Where's the guy with just 1 eye that plays the hornet?!!!

 
Okay, okay, let me have a look on the red book of the 3rd world country interweb video contests' judge, aha, very well.
So it says here a 3rd world/class judge must be honest and sport somekind of sense of humour.

 
• First off as official something-something, I want to thanks everybody that is participating, I wished more people had joined in.
• Secondly, I must thank VK for blackmailing me through a trojan, just kidding Vitaliy only uses zero days (???)
• Thirdly (sounds bad) from every video I personally learned something, even if I don't know what to do with it :P
• Fourth, the guy who went fly fishing, breathe man, brrreeeeaaaaathhhhheeee and maybe a bit less caffeine ,-)

 
And now for the moment that something-something {drum roll please}

..... .>> .>.>. ..... .....

Winners are (what @VK no emojis?!!!!) @humpman and @Cid

 
Congrats, Vitaliy would tell about what the prizes are, I have no idea.

 
 
As a 3rd world country interweb video contests' judge I may leave 1 note:

NOTE
@humpman your video was my favorite, just because it has cats, but for next time consider doing some, any sound design, it doesn't have to be foley, it can just be fooly or plain crazy but something else that gluing a music track on top of the editing; I say this 'cause I care... not a critique, we, 3rd world country judges cannot critique just put out there =)

Cheers PVs {emoji of cat skinning an old chinese lady}

Oh my God i winnn!!! Thanks guys!!! I had even can't dream about that, well, honestly i did in the beginning of the contest when just two joiners inner :D @maxr i'm in the fashion theme )) Yeah, i got what you mean, and i guess i understand what sound image you wanna see, but i have another point-of-view. Actually, all that video stream was builded by the music intention, i just listening music, got the idea, had shot it.

Grrrr..... I didn't submit lol. Congratulations to the winners. Grate videos. Good gifts.