It is 9:00 in the morning and today we have been challenged by MSI to shoot and
edit, using this Prestige laptop a Parkour video in the space of 12 hours.
We've got five of the best athletes in the UK, we're gonna hit up various spots
around London and hopefully we can produce this thing! We need to start!
Hurry up, Danny!
So to tell the story last night, Joe was supposed to be here earlier and he sent
me a text and he's like 'Flights cancelled'
I had two flights cancelled and slept
in someones house like 2:00 in the evening, then got the train back
And he's here now for us!
What are your thoughts on this challenge then?
It's a really cool concept, it just really a really good excuse to
get together with loads of my friends and jump off walls!
Yeah it's been alright getting is the rhythm of it and then once you kind of
in that zone you kind of just switch on and it's game time.
It's hard for the athletes because I'm sure all of us want to get clips that we're happy with and
we've only got a short period of time so we can get it done in 12 hours I'm
trying to find things that aren't too hard for me but at the same time
challenge myself, but I'm liking the challenge.
What are you doing right now Scott?
Just should make sure that we've chosen the song that
we're going to use and because obviously we do have to edit today so we can't
choose a song later because by that point its going to be too late.
We've got to move now!
I feel like tensions are rising slightly?
A little bit we've slightly
overstayed our allocated time here and my worry is its gonna compress us later on in
the day so we have to move, pretty sharpish now!
Thats the only time Danny has ever made me scared!
Nine hours left, so we've got two more spots
probably to hit up maybe three, and about probably six o'clock we have to
start editing. It's gonna be the next two hours that tell us what the story is
whether things get really hard and you know, tiredness sets in or whether we can
just push through.
How do you find personally like, as an athlete, the time constraints
Yeah its like a bit of pressure like coming to spots and try to kind of like come
up with creative lines, it's like that kind of on the spot creativity where you
just have to kind of run with ideas. But its fun!
Everyone else has to deal with the fact that they've just got 12 hours, you have
to deal with the fact that you've got 12 hours and you never been to these spots before.
So I have to be very creative and also focus like being focused at the
same time it's like a challenge especially when you're under pressure so
you feel like you have to do it now because you don't have any time, I just
have to trust myself!
The interesting about Danny is that not only is he a really good parkour
athlete he's also a bit of a monster on rollerblades so when we get these very
very long tracking shots on the gimbal, Danny's one of the best people to film
that kind of stuff because he can skate on anything.
Just offloading the footage that we shot so far so we can start working on the
edit because obviously we're on under tight time pressure to get this done
Okay this isn't quite as bad as I thought so maybe I've got a few in me
Aaaah the little stall! Little tiny stall! I do like this though!
Yeah maybe I'll try one more yeah
if it doesn't work then maybe we leave it there.
You know what the stall isnt horrible, it's 12-hour video. We cant be like too...
You wanna just leave the stall? Yeah, its okay!
So usually when we film parkour videos we have as long as we want to
like make sure the movements perfect the filming is perfect, everything's exactly
how we need, but with this challenge, because we only have 12 hours, we can't
be as picky as we usually would be. We can't go ten times or
just spend a whole day shooting one shot, we literally have to get what we get
so have to make sure that we have the energy for the later shots as well at the other location.
We've actually just come to one of my favorite roofs to shoot in London
We've got this roof over here, this one down here and then
this one we're on now, and the views amazing, look at it!
I sadly have to go now but this day was really nice,
and I hope these guys will smash it!
So I'm just starting the edit up now because, I want to get ahead, we have to
put some clips in as we go. Obviously we shot things this morning
and it's gonna be a case of not all the stuff will be in chronological order so
I'm trying to find bits where the song, fits the clip that we already have
How has the day gone?
You know honestly, yeah I've had an absolute blast
it's just nothing but good vibes
Coffee is here! The day is saved!
These guys aren't exactly experts on computers but I have an idea of what I think is
important and the reason this one is so good is because, it's actually genuinely
fast. It's got an Intel Core i7 processor, 32GB RAM, the screen is 4k and it's
got 100% of the SRGB coverage on the colors, which means that colors you see
on the screen here, are the colors that they should look like on everyone else's devices.
We're filming the last action shot the day and then we're going to go into this
little room and just smash the edit for the next couple of hours.
Usually when filming a parkour edit, it's quite annoying because it takes a while
before you see the final product, or just seeing the clips afterwards but as
this is a 12 hour challenge it's going to be interesting to see the final
product at the end of the day.
Yeah the challenge went I'm really really well today
especially considering I only had four hours sleep, I definitely thought I
wouldn't get as much done but it seems everyone's kind of went out of their way
to - absolutely smash it it.
There has been some pressure some of the spots, Scott has
done a good job keeping us all on track
I'm actually worried we're not going to make this,
genuinely concerned.
I think it's going to be really tight to get the edit done it's
looking really good there's almost like, too much footage, so it's just going to be
about going with the best stuff, I reckon it's gonna come down to the
wire like the last few minutes.
I'm right on the wire now basically,
we'll see if we get it done.
I don't think this would have been possible with any
laptop that was even slightly slower than this one because honestly, the fact
that I've been able to do pretty decent edit in a very compressed timeline
literally like an hour, is crazy!
Alright boys, I know you guys have been at work on the movement, but I have smashed this edit
it in like an hour and we have an edit. I hope you ready for this, genuinely
So it is nine o'clock we've done it, here is your edit, 12 hours, we completed it!