Parkour videos

Somebody commented to me today about how the last Parkour video I cut together was the first he'd seen which was in widescreen. I approach anything like that with the mindset that it has to be as good as it possibly can, both creatively and technically. This means good camera work, good content, good sound & good picture quality. If the subject is worth filming then it's worth doing well. You only get one chance to capture something, and people will be watching it for some time to come, so it needs to be as good as possible. I've seen enough crap quality videos with blocky pictures and low bit rate sound. This is 2006, so we need to be going forward not back! Widescreen has been the standard in television production for at least 6 years now, so why film stuff in 4:3, a standard from yesteryear?! Over the next few months I intend to shoot some test footage and cut together a parkour video in HD. Some people would argue that a good parkour video is good because of the skill of the traceurs. This is true of course, but why watch some 10 frames per second video from a mobile phone, when you could watch a crystal clear high definition image of the same thing? As far as I know, there have been no high definition PK videos yet. I'm going to put that right very soon though. Watch this space :-)