Tourisme Montréal: Filming and Editing a City of Sport
In 2015 and 2016, I contributed to a Tourisme Montréal video about sports activities, produced with lg2. My work combined filming some of the footage with editing the film.
Behind the camera, the collaboration brought me to the North American Chinese Basketball Tournament in 2015, among other events. Preparation for other shoots involved event calendars and moments to capture: emails from that time document coordination over several months.
In the edit, we needed to bring sequences from different events together in one promotional film. Footage review, shot adjustments and animated title cards gave the images a shared direction through delivery of the French and English versions.
Sport offers very direct material for the camera: a gesture, an acceleration, an audience’s attention. This project let me connect those instants with a portrait of Montréal as a place for encounters and sporting events.
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