Productions
David Arnaud - Director - freelance cameraman/editor
- TV/Video Content Manager for the Freeride World Tour
- Director
- Cameraman - editor
Fascinated by moving pictures for many years, I progressively turned this passion into a job. Not exactly what I had in mind when i graduated from the Graduate Business School of Grenoble! I initially got a lot of experience filming and documenting my many travels and expeditions around the world, pursuing my main other passion which is whitewater kayaking. Looking back at it I realize that the difficult shooting conditions faced on rivers were actually a good learning experience!
I am today the Video and TV content manager for the Freeride World Tour and other sport-related events. My job consists in organizing and, budgeting the video production on the FWT's competitions, and making sure that we deliver the goods to our numerous (and demanding!) clients and media partners, wheither it is the same-day TV news or the 26 min TV episodes delivered a few days later. Feeding our website with daily content is also a big part of the work. Fortunately I am assisted in this challenge by a crew usually composed of 15 to 30 people according the event, from cameramen to sound engineers to helicopter operators to editors to journalist... a pretty big change as opposed to my lonely beginnings, filming kayaking on rivers around the world!
Another crucial part of my job is to work as a director for the TV shows produced after each competition. This is a big challenge as this requires a fine balance between nice pictures, interesting storylines, adequate sponsors visibility and very tight delivery schedules.
Teaser edited for the FWT 2011 :
TV Shows directed for the FREERIDE WORLD TOUR
2011
- Pre-season Kick-off show - 26 mins
- Nissan Freeride de Chamonix - 26 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipeT8oOh3Mg
- Nissan Freeride de Engadin-St Moritz - Suisse - 26 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK6gwH44QYY
- Nissan Russian Adventure by Swatch, Russie - 26 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoQjXsq43fA
- North American Championships - Kirkwood, USA - 26 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqE-f_bgG5Y
- Big Mountain Fieberbrunn - Autriche - 26 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atw6G4n6fK4
- Nissan Extreme by Swatch, Verbier, Suisse - 26 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77NlfjnE1B4
- Best-Of FWT 2011 - 26 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAcWctTsLn0
2010
- Nissan Russian Adventure by Swatch, Russie - 26 mins
- Nissan Freeride de Chamonix, France - 26 mins
- Nissan Tram Face, USA - 26 mins
- Nissan Extreme by Swatch, Verbier, Suisse - 26 mins
This event also included a live with multicam and cineflex, at 3000n elevation
- Freeride World Tour 2010 Best Of, 26 min
2009
- Nissan Russian Adventure, Russie - 26 mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiYsiefmvoU
- Nissan Freeride de Tignes, France - 26 mins
- Freeride de Chamonix, France - 13 mins
- Nissan Winter Outdoor Games, Chamonix, France - 26 mins
- Nissan Tram Face, USA - 26 mins
- Nissan Extreme by Swatch, Verbier, Suisse - 26 mins
- Freeride World Tour 2009 Best Of - 26 min
2008
- Freeride World Tour 2008 Best-of - 26 min
Other TV Products and shoots
- Nissan Outdoor Games 2010, Chamonix, France - 26 mins TV
- Teva Extreme Outdoor Games 2009 & 2010, Ivrea, Italy - 12 mins
- Nissan Outdoor Games 2009, Interlaken, Suisse - 26 min TV
- Adidas Sickline 2008 & 2009, Autriche : Cameraman / editor
- DVD "Torrents Alpestres 2" / Co-production Canoe-Kayak Magazine / Comité de Tourisme des Hautes-Alpes, 2009
- Nissan Winter Outdoor Games 2008 - 2nd cameraman, editor
- Shooting-Editing-Authoring of the DVD "Débuter en Kayak de Mer" (Sea Kayaking for Beginners) for Canoe-Kayak Magazine, 2008
CAMERAMAN-EDITOR
Even though my job on the Freeride World Tour mainly is about production and directing, I still work as a freelance cameraman and editor. Here are some of my past clips and favourite edits.
Best-of Big Mountain Fieberbrunn 2011 / A very inspiring music that determined the pace and content of this clip. Soundtrack is Pyraminx by Roger Subirana.
Night paddling
A cool session, thanks to the help of some friends carrying lighting and fog systems to the playspot! Really looks like we brought the playspot to a proper disco!
Veneon 2007
A 2-min clip shot in August 2007 on the Veneon, in the French Alps. This beautiful river was the ideal place to test the camera jib I built this summer. Most of the shots are in slow motion, to better enjoy the fluidity of the camera moves. With this jib I get a much wider choice of camera angles and possibilities. This will be a must on future shootings. Thanks to Mika Hyla, Fabrice Pouyeto and Fred Dumont for their patience during this shooting!
Freedom Fries
This 5-min movie was shot during the 2007 Nissan Outdoor Games. This was my 3rd participation in the event, but my 1st time as a team captain and director. The team consisted in : Joakim Ramsamy (climbing), Sam Beaugey (Base-jump), Guillaume Destouches (Dirt Bike), Arnaud Rocher (paragliding), Benjamin Durand (Assistant/2nd kayaker), Cyril Crespeau (Photographer) et David Arnaud (Kayaker - Director). This movie's already been elected in various film festivals around the world.
DVD "Torrents Alpestres"
Produced in Spring 2007 with the cooperation of the Hautes-Alpes Tourism Board and Canoe Kayak Magazine, this 20-min movie is aimed at a wide audience.
Built as a "road-movie", Torrents Alpestres takes the viewer to some of the most beautiful rivers of the area: Durance, Clarée, Guisane, Guil, as well as the Serre-Ponçon lake for a relaxed touring session.
The goal of this movie was to show the various whitewater activities that can be done in the Hautes-Alpes area, from beginners as well as experts.
15 000 copies of this DVD were distributed by Canoe-Kayak Magazine.
DVD In-Flux - 65 min adventure movie (see shop)
Released early 2006, In-Flux retraces retraces two years of travels and adventures around the planet, covering a wide array of kayaking disciplines on four continents. Edited in both English and French languages. In-Flux was shown in many festivals around the world and won several awards :
- European Paddling Film Festival (Germany) : First Prize
- National Paddling Film Festival (USA) : Best movie
- Wet West Film Festival (NZ) : Adrenaline Award
- Briançon Film Festival (France) : Jury's Award
- Val d'Isère Festival Aventure et Découverte : Official Selection
- Festival International Explorimages : Grand Prix Sport Nature
DVD Methode Kayak Freestyle (see shop)
Instructional DVD released early 2007, dedicated to freestyle kayaking techniques and moves. Edited in French.
DVD Salomon Adrenaline Hunters
A serie of promotional DVDs of which hundreds of thousands copies were produced and distributed worldwide by Salomon.
- 2003 : Clips Altissimo and Fluid Disruption
- 2004 : Clips Siberia and Morocco
- 2005 : Clip River Trolls
- 2006 : Clip Patagonia (Downhill mountain biking with team Qbikes : Damien Spagnolo and Mickael Pascal) - 49 Mo / Windows Media
Ride Experience - Short TV Programs broadcasted on M6 in 2003 and 2004
I shot several of these short clips featuring alternative and newschool sports:
- Climbing : Loic Gaidioz in Morocco
- Kayak : David Arnaud in Canada
- Kayak : Italian Waterfalls
- Moutain Bike : Damien Spagnolo in Morocco
- Moutain Bike : Damien Spagnolo and Cyril Lagneau in Morocco
- Kayak : Mathieu Robert in Morocco
Short clips and movies
Over the years I've put together various clips or provided footage for other productions. Here's a list of video clips:
- Wild Water Adrenaline: a trailer from the Playstation 2 video game I worked on as a consultant. I provided most of the action footage. Did I mention I have my own character in the video game? ;-)
- The Guil headcam: the infamous "Gorge de Chateau-Queyras" shot from the inside!
- Outdoor Games 2006 / Bachelorette: in 2006 I was part of the "Ride The Planets" team for the Outdoor Games. This is the movie we produced for the film competition.
- David Arnaud - Freeride Kayaker: A presentation clip dating back from 2003, a mix of freestyle and creeking, and a dynamic editing. It's long been one of my favorites!
- Morocco: Guess what ? Morocco offers great WW paddling. It's not exactly the dry desert that most people imagine! The soundtrack is a traditional song performed by Hassan and Brahim who accompanied us during this trip in 2004.
