The Outside Adventure Film School will be capturing angles and documenting storylines at Dominion Riverrock in Richmond on May 13-14. Since the school’s inception on Mt. Kilimanjaro in 2007, founder and three time National Emmy Award winner, Michael Brown, has led courses worldwide. Despite having held schools on four continents, this will be the first Outside Adventure Film School course ever held on the East Coast.
The Outside Adventure Film School has chosen to attend Dominion Riverrock thanks to the extraordinary subject matter and contagious energy at the games. Students will be given all-access passes to create their own films from conception to final edit, and the school will showcase student films at a special film festival in Richmond on May 17th to conclude the course.
One of the unique aspects of the Outside Adventure Film School is that all ages and levels of filmmaker are welcome; past students have ranged from 15 to 60 years old, and while some are just learning to wrangle their cameras into record mode, others boast full-time careers producing television and films. Athletes and onlookers at the games can’t miss the school’s students armed with cameras, tripods and audio gear, and led by a well rounded team of adventure filmmakers.
The challenges of shooting action sports and capturing the raw personalities of extreme athletes await this particular group. Whether it’s posting up for the perfect shot on the big-air kayak course, keeping up with subjects on the mountain bike course, or dropping a waterproof camera beneath the surface to grab an aquatic angle of long-jumping dogs, students will find that film opportunities are bountiful if not demanding.
Creativity runs high in such an environment, and the trickiest part of the school may be paring down hours of footage. With so much intensity, emotion, it’s a formidable task to hack hours worth film. What a wonderful dilemma to have. Good luck athletes and filmmakers
For more information visit: www.adventurefilmschool.com
