Feedback Needed Irish Wild Camping Adventure

[chris 2WJ]

I would appreciate any feedback as this is my first video attempt. As a first project this was a bit tricky to execute, capture and edit and tbh took an almost unsustainable amount of time in edit. After initially reviewing the footage I got immediatly after the event I was a bit concerned that I could make the video I had envisioned but I think I managed to get it where I wanted in the edit.

Inspiration comes from a mix of baron von grumble's gsxr green laning and some motorcycle based wild camping vids of various origin. But please let me know any suggestions/observations/critisicms you may have. My skin is thick is this regard!

 

[Hippo-Drones]

Hi Chris, that is fantastic for a first attempt bud, can see you put a lot of effort into it.
You are a nutter camping in those temps and even more so riding road tyres offroad like that, am not surprised you struggled!
Ok you asked for feedback so here goes, and take it with a pinch of salt as it is just my opinion, I am no expert and I am very much often wrong.
I liked the star lapse and the music choice was nice and dramatic. Your narration was a good sound level and clarity, but your in helmet audio could do with upping the volume to match your narration level.
You could have made the video a lot shorter, over a minute at the end of black screen and music, also I felt you lingered on the struggles a bit much, possibly cut after each narration and maybe reduce the amount of time spent on the recce both in the planning bit (especially the bit with the bumpy camera angle) and when you had to adjust your route. This could easily have been a 15min vid.
With that said, this was possibly one of the best "first go at it" videos I have ever watched as you put a lot of effort into the planning of the edit, and put a lot of cool stuff (like the star lapse and Monkey Island "Yikes") into it, you should be hugely proud of this. You have gained a sub from me. Well done!

 

[chris 2WJ]

The temperature was a bit of a surprise I would have stayed at home if I knew it would be that low. Point taken about the length I originally got it down to about 22mins from 30. I think the journey back could have been cut since it doesn't really add anything that wasn't already covered. But yeah I will pay more attention to the edit and the audio in future. The minute of music/black screen at the end was actually intentional as the copwrighted content detection didn't work in the mix alongside the exhaust note from the termignoni in the intro.

Me thinking outloud on some other things I would change:
- Everything was shot in 1080p resolution which looked terrible when compressed by youtube. I redid it by upscaling to 1440p which was a big improvement. But I do everything in 2.7k now anyways.
- The timelapses were taken on the gopro could have been improved by doing them on my camera instead

Anyway big thanks for the feedback and the sub it's really helpful!

 

[Hippo-Drones]

Keep at it mate

 

[R-Rated]

Here's my impression:
Great voiceover work.
Too bad about the last camper (the bones).
Nice explaining what your concerns were and what was going on. Especially when you got stuck.
Nice use of music to set mood.
Great camera work.

Intro could have been a tad shorter.

Overall, very entertaining. Helped me pass time at my desk job.

 

[chris 2WJ]

thanks dude, I appreciate it!

 

[Dewey316]

Great job for a first video. The effort shows.

My one piece of feedback, is there was a lot of dead air, where you weren't talking and no music. I think of you cut a little more out, the pace of the video would pick up, and you would have less dead time.

All in all, I really liked it, and gave you a sub. I look forward to what you do from here, you had a good start and a fun video.