Ski media has changed a lot in the past 20 years! Used to be, you were either dropping a 4 minute edit for NS, or working on your part in a 40 minute film. Now, a "project" can be a lot of different things. I think I've got the main ones down here:
-Full length film. The classic. 30 minutes to an hour. Usually a concretized theme, but mostly just highlight reel mixed with a little travel montage and exposé on tHaT fEeLiNg LiKe nO oThEr.
-Independent/Solo film. I think these really started showing up around the Candide Kamera era. 10-20 minutes, usually a single skier, or a single trip/mission. The hook is usually a narrative intro, or an old dude talking about doing whatever you want. Skier might say something idk.
-Short film. More meat than an edit, but basically an edit. 5-8 minutes, dad cam with the zoom lens, pretty raw. A lot of these seem to substitute angsty, random b roll for any sort of plot progression
-Edit. The NS classic. One song, max 30 seconds of b roll, and 3 minutes of highlight reel tricks. Probably filmed on a pole-mounted gopro, or horizontal phone clips.
-Reel edit. For the kids that don't understand how the algorithm works. one full minute of vertical phone clips on the gram, slapped on top of some music. Probably Carti.
-Clip. One Take Jake. Maybe 2 shots if someone got a second angle.
-TikTok. More likely a video about skiing than a video of skiing. Audio ripped from a fever dream, and you won't stop hearing it for days.
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