Last July the 4th edition of the Nissan Outdoor Games took place in Interlaken, Switzerland. This was my 4th participation to this summer event, but this time as a cameraman/director for the event organizers. My experience during the last Winter Outdoor Games in Chamonix had already been very interesting as video content manager.

This time I was in charge of directing the Event Highlight, a 24-min program aimed at TV stations worldwide. Nice challenge! Knowing the event and the area, as well as some of the teams and participants made my task easier. I also shot and edited daily clips for the event's website. All of the clips, as well as the teams' movies, can be seen on this page: L'ensemble des clips quotidiens, ainsi que les films des équipes sont dispos sur la page suivante :

http://www.dailymotion.com/outdoorgamestv

The concept of the event, for those who don't know it, is quite simple: 5 teams have 5 days to shoot a 5-min movie featuring 5 different disciplines: kayaking, mountain biking, base-jumping, climbing and paragliding. I spent most of the week following the teams on hte field, documenting the making of their respective movies. Unfortunately a tragic accident occured during the week. A base-jumper from the French "Ride The Planets" team, Yoann Lizeroux, was killed during a jump. It was a shock for everybody. After a meeting, the four other teams decided to continue the event but to leave aside the competition format.

Despite difficult weather conditions, the general level of the movies has improved nonetheless. My personal favorties were Team IBEX and team GOLGOHT. These are two very different movies, but equally inspirational.




During the public event on the last 3 days, 3 more cameramen came from Germany. As soon as the event was over, I made the drive to Germany to work on the editing at the "Dropin TV" studio. This is a production company that works mostly on sports events. Once again, a good preparation of the work and a solid script allowed us to edit this TV highlight in just a week. The tricky part in this kind of jobs is to make an interesting show with a good storyline, while taking into account the required exposure for the various sponsors of the event. The show is now airing in various parts of the world... pretty cool!


One of my personal highlight was to take place into the air:

Copyright:OutdoorGames.org/DomDaher.Event:Nissan Outdoor Games, Interlaken 2008.Photographer:DomDaher.Date29juin2008.Athlete:Flo OrleyDescription:Flo Starting with a jump from the cliff.

Copyright: Outdoor Games 2008, Dom Daher

For about 15 minutes, the hangglider of Austrian Flo Orley flew over my head and in front of my camera. What a great show! In the background was one of the most spectacular panorama of the Alps. I was truely amazed by the maniability and speed of the hangglider. The noise of the hangglider is very similar to a plane or a jet. Very surprising. And very impressing during the close fly-by. Whooo!!!