This film festival began for his second winter edition in Chamonix.
It will last until the 21th of February, and gather all the best outdoor filming crews.
A quick resume of what this festival features...
Keyword - Outdoor Games
Outdoorgames 2009 : "Action!" February 17, 2009
- Ice climbing
- Mountaineering
- Outdoor Games
- Video
Outdoorgames Movie - The Final Cut March 7, 2008
- Ice climbing
- Mountaineering
- Outdoor Games
- Video
Just a few words to introduce the MedeO'z movie, made for the Outdoorgames at Chamonix.
Please visit their website to learn more about this wonderful and very creative event...
The idea is (as we presented in a latest post) : Seven teams of professional film production companies had to create three differents projects in only five days!
- A 5 minute short film
- A photo gallery
- A 1 minute making-of short film
Our idea was to combine all the projects in one, instead of doing three separate projects.
We approached this contest like a global concept, relating the film, the photo and the making-of.
That’s what you will understand here below :
- 1/ THE FILM : A 5-minute short film movie featuring 5 different sports: mountaineering, skiing, snowboarding, paragliding and base jumping. All the footage and editing had to be done in five days, from Monday to Friday and had to be shot in the Mount Blanc range.
The movie had to be understandable for the international jury, so we made the voice-over in English. A French version is coming soon!
But for those who don’t really understand English: the idea was to tell the story of our photographer, who wanted to take the 5 sports in one picture, instead of taking one picture of each sport. This picture took us a lot of work and energy!!
DOWNLOAD the movie in high resolution format (Quicktime - H264 codec - 193 Mo).- 2/ THE PHOTO CONTEST : Photographers of each team had to take 20 pictures, with at least one picture of each sport.
As I said above, the ‘project’ of our photographer was to shoot the 5 sports, but in one picture.
Please visit the photo gallery to see the 20 pictures of our ‘very special’ photographer :
Mr Tony Lamiche.
- 3/ THE MAKING - OF : Then check out the “Making-of” short, the logical conclusion to this first film.
The rules of the making-of competition were to create a 1 minute short film, including footage of the movie creation, the backstage of the film and the Nissan car loaned to use for the week. As you can see, everything is connected, and that’s what we wanted to do.
- BACKSTAGE : Download the story-board of the film, (.PDF) , which had been made three months before the event !!
As you can see, we did exactly what we drew, every shot was planned...
It's crazy to see how the film is so similar to the storyboard...
A lot of video equipment !!
Thanks again to the crew, who got really involved in the project, even late into night!
Thanks to MedeO, the video company who really managed the creation of the film.
A huge thanks to Liv, who really got into the moment, ice and alpine climbing with both a photographer and a filmmaker. Not an easy task!!!!
Thanks to Tony, the spirit and star of the film. His hard work helped bring the film together.
It’s sometimes easier to be an elite athlete than to be a great actor!!
See also all the posts of the Petzl Team about the Outdoorgames.
Watch the videos of the 7 teams for the video contest !
"The Outdoorgames director's cut" online soon February 20, 2008
Hi there !!
As you may know, we gave our Film on Friday 15th of February, (18h00) to the organization...
It's fine, but not really as we wanted to do...
So we are making the director's cut : the very final version with all the details we liked to have (perfect sound design, a bit more of pure footages etc...)
Unfortunatly, it takes more time to make it happen, so the Final Cut of the film will be available on the Petzl Team website, around the first week of March... So stay tuned for the final version !!!!
Otherwise, if you want to watch the others films of the competition : go to the Outdoorgames website.
Every team made a great job in only 5 days, everybody tried to make a real movie with synopsis, instead of only put sound on footages to make a video clip... The team "Ride the planets" (who won the 1st price) made a very good job with animated draws... Big Time ! They also shot Christophe Dumarest & Aymeric Clouet in the "Eperon frendo", a 1200m mixed route, on the North Face of the "Aiguille du Midi".
I really would like, (as a director) to thank to ALL the TEAM who really got involved in the project...
It's sometimes harder to be an actor than to be an elite athlete !!...
But they stayed very motivated and interrested all this week, so that was a very unique experience for me to follow this guys and try to make them go where I wanted they go....
A quick presentation of the MedeO Team (from left to right and up to bottom)
> Liv Sansoz : Our "Mountain Girl", 2 times Sport Climbing World Champion, who made some mountaineering shot during the week.
> Vivien Doti : Snowboard freerider, who played in the "Nuit de la Glisse" movie...
> Matt Gerdes : Ozone Paragliding pilot test, who BASE jumped for the team.
> Guillaume Broust : Directing from the red T-shirt...
> Erwan Lelann : Our Moutain Guide who also filmed some good shots as a cameraman.
> Tony Lamiche : Our main character, thanks to him for his motivation !
> Denis Steinberg : From the MedeO video production company, they brought a LOT of professional video equipment... That really helped us a lot, to make it happen whitout I.T bugs !! (The worst thing you can imagine in such a tiny timing...)
> Antoine Boisselier : The speedrider dude, who is also 2 times Hanggliding France Champion.
> Guillaume Chatain : Our tandem paragliding guy, who launched Matt Gerdes a couple of time. Also very strong in speedriding & acro paragliding.
> Martial Dumas : The moutain guide who belayed Liv Sansoz. Martial played on the Azazel and Baffin movies. He also opened a new route in "the DRUS" last year. It's called "La Voie des Papas".
> Mati Imbert : The Freestyler/rider skier, who left the wenesday night for Nepal... It's too bad we could not make more footages of him, but a huge tkanks to him for beeing part of the team...
> Sebastien Balme : My personnal editor, who make a really big work in only 3 days to edit this movie... I guess he is still tired about this 3 last days!!...
We had 3 people more who were on the project :
> Bertrand Delapierre, our moutain cameraman,
> Chris Denizot, our sound designer.
> Felix Rodriguez, our special acro paragliding guest....
Thanks to this team, we did a very big job in only 5 days, and if you didn't watch our movie yet, I advice you to wait till beginning of March to have the final cut of the film....
You can still watch the photo selection of Tony, the 20 photos he had to make in only 5 days...
The hardtime for him was to following us and trying to shoot the pictures while we shot the film. It's always very complicated to match the video shoot and the photo shoot in a same time.
But I guess he will present you his project when we will upload the final version of the movie....
So stay tuned on the Petzl Team to see our 5 days' project !!
All the best
Guillaume.
A team for the Outdoorgames ! February 7, 2008
In mid-February, Chamonix Mont-Blanc will host the best Extreme Sports athletes for a unique competition. There will be mountain sports of course, but above all, the Outdoors Games will be a festival of film and photography. The concept will bring together seven teams.
Climbers, skiers, snowboarders, paragliders and BASE-jumpers will join up with professional cameramen, photographers, editors, and producers.
They will all have 5 days to produce a short film of 5 minutes, and 20 still pictures !
The Aiguille d'Or, trophy will be awarded to the best production during the ceremony on Saturday night in the centre of Chamonix. The decision will be made by a jury made up of specialists in the areas of sport and audiovisuals. They will also hand out an award for the best photograph.
See all the infos and program on the Outdoorgames official website
Petzl will be part of the event : we will organize the Ice climbing initiation in Argentière. Free for the public : subscribe at the Petzl booth, in the Outdoorgames village, down town Chamonix.
There will be also professional demos of ice climbing and drytooling, during the evening.
For this event, MedeO (the production crew who made the corporate movie), will join Guillaume Broust and Bertrand Delapierre, as well as several athletes from Petzl team:
- Tony Lamiche will be our special photographer ! The story will be around his passion of photography (you may have seen some og his shots on his blog.)
- Liv Sansoz will be our climber, she will also post some news on her blog during the event.
- Martial Dumas, from the team Planet BigWall will climb with her during the week.
Here under, the details of the team:
Director : Guillaume Broust
Director of Petzl movies :
- Lotus Flower (awarded at Pau)
- Azazel (awarded in Vancouver)
- Bonfire of Vanities (awarded at the Cham' Internet Festival)
- Navalameca, Roctrip Kalymnos, Roctrip Redriver Gorge, etc...
Director of photography : Bertrand Delapierre
- Photographer of Les Nuit de la glisse
- Director of the movies : Marco, étoile filante, Ice UP, Les Amants des Drus, Sorcière Blanche, etc...
Editing crew : MédéO
- Video production crew
- Editors of the Petzl corporate movie and the Nomic ice tool video
Climber : Liv Sansoz
- Two times World Champion in Sport Climbing
- 2nd of the Ice World Cup - IWC 2001
- Part of the Climbing National Team for 8 years
Martial Dumas (from the team Planet BigWall, the guys who did Azazel and Baffin Island) will also be part of the team. He will belay Liv during the week.
Still photographer : Tony Lamiche
- Alpine Moutain Guide
- 3rd of the Ice World Cup - IWC 2002
- Photos available on his personal website
Snowboarding : Vivien Dotty
- Winner of Freeride des arcs 2002
- Participation to Extrem de Verbier
- Participation in the films :
- « Nuit de la glisse : Perfect moment »
- « Un Chalet dans les alpes »
- « Barre Code »
Skiing : Matt Imbert
- Pro-rider for ACG
- Freestyle and Freeride skiing
- Watch some of his videos !
Speedriding : Antoine Boisselier
- Hanggliding France Champion
- Acro paragliding pilot
- Ozone test pilot
Base Jumping : Matt Gerdes
- Participation at the OutdoorGames 2007 (Interlaken)
- Acro paragliding pilot
- Ozone test pilot
Paragliding : Guillaume Chatain
- 3rd at the France Championship 2005
- 4th at the Acro Paragliding World Cup
- World record of Tandem distance flight (170 km in round trip)
Stay tuned for the movie ! It will be available around the 17th of February, on www.petzlteam.com !
Copyright photos : Arnaud Childéric, David Ravanel, Outdoorgames, Pascal Tournaire, Liv Sansoz collection.
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