travis
what lake are you going to, I live in moorpark. I did the same thing for school. I took a class that had a sony-vx2000 camera and the editing software was adobe premiere 6.0. When i got in the class I found out that all of the projects have to be able to benifit the community. So i went to sports-ltd for wakeboard safety, and to tilly's marine for the boat safety, and then all of the wakeboarding shots were filmed at castaic. the project ended up being alright. We called the film Hit It! So dont call it that. if you want to see the trailer to the video go to my website
www.geocities.com/wadalot. Good luck with the video and let me know when you are going i could get some other people to come as well.