What Makes a good video

As some of you may be aware Martin and I are doing a London juggling scene video and we want to make it as snazzy as possible so I was wondering what you guys thought made a good video and what is really cool about the London scene that should be included.
fire awayy

P.S.
We are DEFINITLY FOR SURE going to be filming on Clapham Common on Sunday asuming the nice weather holds out, hope to see some people there.

ummm...

Funky London locations (Martin contact juggling on the tube is a good un )
or is it all gonna be shot at workshops n meets?

Puncturing of smugness (NO DIGNITY!)
equivalent of bails in a skateboarding vid. less spectacular in spinning/juggling usually, but you should get footage of someone doing an inadvertent nadwrap at some point...

Tricks so sick they're ugly and vice versa

Hug ambushes

Foreign accents

Idiocy

- Good music always helps
- Dont go over board on fancy camera effects.

if drew gets on the video can we heckel him and call him a sell out or is he magically going to apear on this vid like he does on every one elses?
if drews on it! i will buy it; unless its going to be digitally remastered on the net ie: downloadable.

i second the use of 'foreign' throughout

there has never been a better time to say: location, location, location...

the southbank, a skatepark (stockwell is free, playstation we'll have to request permission so eff that!), westminster/ the tower, one of the 6 major train terminals would be great but like the tube i think filming is prohibited the london eye and finally, can i reserve the big iron sculpture @ broadgate (in the city) for one burn...?

slam sections i generally detest (anyone seen 'the reason'? ) but here they may well be 'enjoyable'

more eostrogen pls.

we can do that - anyone know where the nearest hrt clinic is...?

1112pk
You might think that you can heckle me,
and yep, id say that your pretty good at it,
ruda and funny, all the qualities that every good heckle should have

but thats nothing compared to danae, she can heckle like a sweet razorblade kick to the nads.

i guess its a bit like nutella spread on marmite crisps.
a bitter crunch but with a lovely sweet after taste.

have patence and divx, you'll hear them soon



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what? more vids? sweeeeeeeet!
:rubs hands together:

In my opinion good videos need to have some kind of narrative to give it some flow.

..like this thread!
and now for something completely different!!

Fair point well made!

good music and well edited together intresting places to spin, try to get something new. i like to spin really long poi... get some1 to do that on top of a wall andjust play around

i sugest filming certain parts with a fish eye lens

Using a tripod is generally a bonus as camera shake can be a problem

yeah pk!

i been saying that for ages (after doing poi and watching the reflection in a clock pendulum!) but they're really expensive and no-one has one

maybe the cheap (and possibly cooler) alternative would be one of those curvy mirrors like you get instead of cctv cameras in shitty off licences.

ya know, the more i think about it, the more i really want one of those mirrors...


i so wish we'd had a camera on wednesday night i saw some pretty good juggling

come to nottingham if you want big curvy mirrors... me and thistle at big curvy mirror
and just a big mirror (well big expensive one)

wicked photos!

was that the one that used to have a focus point about 15 feet above it?

iirc they had to change the angle so that it didn't randomly fry passing birds on hot days

don't think we'll be allowed to borrow that for the london video though...

All good suggestions thanks, I was thinking a good thing for the ending credits would be drew trying to nut himself with his poi and for twenty mintues while a ridiculous amount of credits scroll by and end with a freeze of his pain filled face
One of the main things I'm trying to capture is the sillines that goes on, i.e. juggling sculputres or just the incredidbly stupid yet stupidly funny stuff that gets thrown down like every 20 seconds at Clapham common but everyone gets really techy when there a camerea around.
Maybe I should do a get over your fear of the lens workshop or if I tell people that I'm not actually holding a camera enough they'll belive me.