Evaluation 4 Two wheels of Freedom - Teva (8:15)

This specific film was made by a company called 'Teva' to illustrate to watchers that a bike can actually be 'two wheels of freedom.' The video itself is a collection of footage from two weeks of riding and traveling in New Zealand that has been edited and compressed into an eight minute video about these famous riders adventures.

The riding in this video is extremely well filmed, the opening shot of the video are all slow motion shots of driving and waxing a surf board. These look extremely good with the videos tittles and location of the video fading in and out of each shot. Overall the filming is all very wide angled to try and keep some of the stunning landscape in the back of the riding shots, this is simply to remind the audience where the riders are and how amazing the country is. The lifestyle shots in this video are also very well filmed, the riders are in the focus of the shot and its always clear who is talking. The riding and the lifestyle shots together make for a very fun and entertaining video to watch, the film is also interesting because it allows the viewer to get connected to the riders and feel like part of their journey around New Zealand.

This film looks very smooth and fast because of the short cuts used in the editing process. All of the shots only last a few seconds at the most and this keeps the video interesting as your never sure what you'll be looking at in the next shot. The editing is seamlessly with the music in the background, this is because the music is also very fast paced to try and make the riding seem faster and more flowy for the audience. Lots of the slow motion shots in this film are all edited in time to the music as well. All of the editing is non-continuitous as the video does not tell a story from begging to end, it jumps to and from different points in their trip around the country.

The sound is especially important in this video as it has a running comentary of the riders views and stories of the trip around New Zealand. This is intercut with the music in the background makes for a more interesting video for the audience to enjoy. This video fits into the audience expectations as it has a lot of fast paced shots and a little bit of a comentary on the riders opinions and stories, this is a common trend in most mountain biking documentaries because the audiance get the riders insight into their lives and experiences.