Helmet Cam Ski Filming Ideas

The winter adventure sport of skiing allows you to traverse steep, winding and wooded slopes and landscapes. A helmet camera is the ideal filming solution for documenting your ski travels or shooting a freestyle ski film. Proper setup and body position ensures a still video with accurate focus.

  1. Solo

    • Using a helmet camera to record your ski sessions allows you to relive the experience and show others where you have been. It offers the unique perspective of your point of view while traversing the ski slopes. A helmet cam is especially useful when you want to show others your experiences in inaccessible mountain and back-country routes.

    Follow Another

    • Following another skier while filming with a helmet cam allows you to record his techniques for training purposes. This is an important tool for helping skiers to learn from their mistakes and to become better skiers. It is also an ideal way to record your skiing adventures on dangerous and scenic trails for other to see.

    Stationary Filming

    • Wearing a helmet camera is an ideal solution for stationary filming of ski passes or jumps without having to lug around equipment. Position yourself facing the area you want to film while others traverse it. Get intriguing angles by lying down, after a jump, with a vertical view of a skier passing over you. Or, stay a distance to get a wide view of group skiing.

    Editing

    • Editing is crucial to making a film from a helmet camera interesting and seamless. Remove all repetitive areas such as long straight runs and basic scenery. Combine action scenes of jumping, tricks, carving, interesting lines and scenic views in short segments to keep an audience entertained. Adding music to your video adds an extra element to complement the skiing action. For training or tour videos, you can display text during the video describing ski techniques or to label ski trails and landmarks.

    Caution

    • Use caution when skiing downhill and filming with a helmet camera. Do not become so focused on what the camera is seeing, that you lose focus on the trail ahead of you. Inspect the camera often as snow and debris build-up will limit the camera's view.