a couple tips, though more focused on editing than filming:
- shoot lots of video and edit it way down. You'll probably only end up using a few minutes out of every hour of video.
- be careful using long segments... bores the viewer. Each 15 second scene might be ok on its own and mean something to you because you were there, but string a couple of 15 second segments together and you get a long, boring video. Short 2-5 second segments showing tricks and activity usually flow better in a video (although be careful of overcorrecting and making it too choppy).
- consider some setup or transition shots. Taking a few seconds to set the scene, show the drive to the lake, launching the boat, the boat house, cleaning the boat afterwards... something to link things together.
- add people shots - stuff showing your passengers interacting with each other, pushing each other off the swim step, joking around, etc. You'll have to edit the hell out of it, but that's half of what a day on the boat is about. Plus unless your riders are WAY above average, the "tricks" you shoot really won't be that impressive. For most people wakeboarding videos are really much more about showing fun times than showing wakeboarding. Wakeboarding just happens to be the setting.
- shooting on a GoPro I assume? Gopole has some good stuff like the Bobber and floating sticks.
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