Port Angeles, Washington, with the Specialized AllRide Academy. Check out our video:
The first Pro GRT Race of the season was in Port Angeles, Washington and I was lucky enough to go to it with the Specialized AllRide Academy. With AllRide, we always try to come up with creative videos that are different from the standard bike edits to try to set the program apart from others. When we arrived in Port Angeles we saw a Twilight store (which we laughed at) and were later informed that Twilight was based near the Port Angeles area so we thought it would be funny to put a Twilight spin on our video, not to condone it of course, but just to make the video slightly more interesting.
Videos with a theme or story are not too easy to put together at an event like this. Trying to snag a few "storyline" shots in between the riders practice and race runs proved to be a challenge. We shot the intro to the video right before we left Washington so my lens was still covered in mud from the race and because we shot it in such a rush it came out a little rough but we still did what we could to make it work. Its not perfect, but oh well.
Making this video was definitely a challenge. We had only 2 days to shoot the entire thing so all of Mikey's riding segment was shot during his practice laps. The Edward cut-out turned out to be quite the attraction to people on the course and they would stop and take their picture with it which slowed down some of the shots. When we went and set up the vampire for the final "killing" shot about 100 people showed up to watch (no joke, we still have no idea where they came from) so there was a huge applause when he whipped his head off which ended the video really well. Check out the photo Chance Keso got of the whip!
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| Title: Mikey Killing The Vampire / Video: Specialized AllRide Pro GRT #1 / Photo: Chance Keso |
The weekend was a success though! Mikey got 6th in Pro Men and we were able to film a bangin part! Unfortunately, Cierra crashed and hit her head after a vampire ran across the trail in her race run which caused her to DNF. Mikey later found the creepy blood sucker that was responsible and whipped his head off.
Song:
"Somebody's Watching Me" - Rockwell
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