Evaluation 5 The Making of Arrivals - Episode 5 Whistler (7:39)

This video is almost a 'making of' video rather than a documentary. However it does showcase a perfect representation of the riders lives as that is what they are trying to portray to the audience, the actually film crew being documented in this video are trying to make a film that represents the lifestyle of living in Whistler B.C.

The cinematography is very clean and professional looking in this documentary as 'the coastal crew' are a very famous media company specializing in filming bike movies. This particular segment shows just how the riding and lifestyle shots are normally filmed and this makes for some very interesting shots throughout the video, for instance the transition from the camera mans eyes to his camera point of view is seamlessly done and looking very smooth as part of the overall video. The look of this video is very smooth as all of the shots are extremely steady and the pans are all very smooth, this shows that they have obviously used some sort of tripod or runners for their camera's and it has helped make the video look very good. There are a few close up shots of the riders in the mist that have been slowed down, these shots look very good in context of the video however would probably require a lot of skill behind a professional camera to film. Lots of the riding shots have been filmed from the point of view of the filmer, so for my documentary I may try to do a lot of POV shots of the general atmosphere of the events and lifestyle behind the riding. The other shots I will try and emulate is the staged interview room style clips that were edited in throughout the video, the don't look particularly interesting but give a good insight into the rider mindsets.

The editing in this particular video is strange because of the mix of POV and riding and the lifestyle shots, however it does make for a very insightful and entertaining video. The editing for the riding segments is mostly quick cuts from one scene to the other, the only long cuts in the video are during the interview clips where the focus is just on one person for a couple of seconds as they talk about certain events. This smooth but not rapid style of editing makes the video much easier to follow for the audience, it would also be good for a video with more interviews than riding in a documentary style film.

This video completely caters to the audiences expectations of a bike documentary and allows the audience to see how most mountain bike films are actually filmed which is is very interesting to see as not many filming companies show the audience behind the scenes of their videos.