The dog days of summer lend themselves to productivity. The light is out late, the air is warm on the breeze even in the late evening and the sessions can go for hours. Light fades from white to gold to blue to black, making one session feel like four all melting together. With long open days and free reign to conceptualize and create a new build in Montana at the Legacy Bike Park, Brandon Semenuk has pieced together one of his best trail bike edits yet.
Film by Isaac Wallen & Benoit Lalande. Photos by Ian Collins.
update - here's the reason: benoitlalande.com
Everything this guy edits is cut like this.
Hey legacy, you gonna let us on that trail? I'd be excited to injure myself on it.
atleast we know it can be done...
whoever edits and films brandons videos please, i am begging you, greatly reduce or fully eliminate the following: mid trick quick cuts (sometimes multiple times wtf?), over zoomed in elbows to knees in frame shots, quick cut random guy in the sky shots, tilting your camera as the rider passes, inconsistent shaky high to low and side to side pans, and cutting every single clip before the 2.5 second mark. just let a 6 second clip play out where takes off, lands, stays in frame, and then maybe even hits a corner. you do not need 5 different cuts within that 6 seconds its just horrible viewing
That being said, there are other videos out there that Semenuk has been a part of with different editors that made me want to vomit from nausea.
A solid Value Village purchase by Brandon the frugal and fashionable consumer.
Either way, Skills trump Wheelsize/playfulness…