Parkour Is
The above film is a project I worked on earlier in the year. The project was a small collaboration with a university friend Joe Burrows. The brief was a simple one Parkour Generations wanted a Parkour film that went beyond the big jumps and specitalism that is often seen in parkour and create a film which explored what Parkour meant to the athletes and the more subtleties of Parkour.
We shot it down in london over two days, with a simple two man crew going for the fast and light approach, using the canon 7D. The lightness of the DSLR was great when running backwards while trying to keep up with them. With this approach I still think we managed to capture some great images that help show the subtle side of parkour. The second days location was an estate which had a science fiction edge to the architecture which made for some great shots, a location I’d love to go back to and explore more.
The Second Days Location
The element which most impressed me about it was how everything was all in perfect control nothing was ever forced. The whole atmosphere on the shoot was relaxed and the guys where great to work with. I left London after the shoot really happy with the footage and relaxed, primed to return to finish my dissertation.
As the camera man on the shoot I had little with post on this project however I think that Joe has done a great edit enhanced by some great original music by Janet and Rich has done a great grade, even though the light over the two days couldn’t have been more different one day bright sunny, second over cast.
As you can probably tell I’m really happy with the finished project and how its all come together, I look forward to collaborating with Joe again in the future.
Tom.
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