Video: The Making of Shreds or Tails

When it comes to making a great mountain bike edit, it takes more than just shooting your buddies on a piece of trail with your iPhone. It takes a great trail, great riders and great editing to make it work. And that’s exactly what Ben Reasbeck, Kyle Easby and Brian Hunt set out to do this fall. Reasbeck and Easby are two Town of the Blue Mountains locals that have a vested interest in making the Ontario scene look good.

"Ontario gets a bum rap,” says Easby, “and we just want to show that there are great trails in Ontario.”


And there are great trails because Easby and Reasbeck build them. Whether there is a camera out there or not, these two guys are out in the woods building trails and scoping new ones all year long. Combine that tireless work ethic with the colours of fall and the endless amount of gear that Brian Hunt shoots with, and a great edit was nearly guaranteed.


Hunt’s no stranger to shooting action or mountain biking. He’s been doing it forever. The creator of the classic Canadian BMX movie, CBR, he’s filmed with everyone from John Heaton to Wade Simmons. And when he’s passionate about a project he’s ready to hike everything out into the woods. Including weights; he literally drags dumbbells out into the woods to counter-weight his crane.


I spent two days out there with these guys, crushing beers and carrying gear for Brian Hunt. It was damn good time. And it is always killer to see the final product come out so great. Here are some of the pics I took during those two days, and Hunt's edit to go along with it.


Some of the equipment Brian Hunt used to make this video include:

Sony NEX FS700 - for super slow mo of 120fps and 240fps
Metabones EOS to Emount to put Canon lenses on the Sony
Canon EOS C300 digital cinema camera with EF mount
GoPro Hero 3 Blacks x 2 and 1 GoPro Hero 3+
Dactylcam GoRig with GoPro attached
Phantom Quadrocopter with Zenmus H3-2D Gimbal


Spinny GoPro rig, Rhino Camera gear and Rhino Swivel Mount
Jib/Crane, Kessler Crane, Pocket Jib and Kpod Tripod legs


Tripods, Miller Solo 20, best documentary uses tripod out there.

Canon lenses:
Tokina 11-16 f2.8
Canon 16-36 f2.8
Canon 24-105 IS f4
Canon 24-70 f2.8
Canon 70-200 IS f2.8

On Camera monitor, Small HD AC7 7.7 OLED

Edited in Adobe Premiere CS6, titles done in Adobe Aftereffects CS6 and Color correction was done with Film Convert.

Overlays done with Lumineux by Crumble Pop.