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The Line of the Winter is again for 2024, child! GoPro’s on the hunt for the best ski and board strains from this winter. Each month by April, Jamie Anderson, Tom Wallisch, Kai Jones, Sage Kotsenburg and Hedvig Wessel will come collectively to hand-pick their favourite clips and award each a skier and a boarder with a cool $10K. Sit skiers, adaptive snow athletes and ski-base athletes are additionally inspired to submit. On the finish of the season, the judges decide by the month-to-month winners and choose their general favourite to toss one other $20k their manner.
“In 2008, GoPro put a wide-angle lens on its digital camera. Up till then, the digital camera was actually a point-and-shoot born out of browsing, however when it went large angle, individuals actually began changing into shooters and topics of movies,” explains Christopher Prado, GoPro Affiliate Communications & Group Advertising Director. “Individuals began to show the digital camera again on themselves and use it for snowboarding.” In flip, the Line of the Winter contest emerged as a platform to focus on uncooked, unfiltered expertise, and that’s precisely what it’s persevering with to do.
The competition is judged on three standards: athletic efficiency, video seize high quality and general wow issue. “Athletic efficiency is like whenever you see Logan Pehota or Colby Stevenson ski these strains which can be simply so insane from a pucker standpoint, or once we see Josh Dueck ripping down insane hardpack and taking 20ft airs to agency ice landings. There’s simply sheer athletic efficiency in that snowboarding,” says Prado. “Video seize high quality simply means you could have the digital camera mounted in the fitting place and selected good settings so we will actually see your expertise. The general wow issue class leaves room for these completely bananas moments the place we could be blown away by any issue of the shot or line.”
In 2015, Léo Taillefer scored the general Line of the Winter winner with a mind-bending line in Val d Isère, France. “He will get straight off the chairlift, jumps by gullies, finds insane transitions and hoots and hollers the entire manner down the mountain,” says Prado. It’s a first-rate instance of the form of movies GoPro is looking for.
All submissions should be shot one hundred pc on GoPro, utilizing any make of the digital camera. Professional Tip: from the Hero 7 onwards, all cameras function a hyper clean video stabilization know-how, which will help you with a smoother seize. When you’ve acquired your clip, there’s no modifying, filtering or cropping allowed. Simply obtain the uncooked footage from any GoPro digital camera and add it to your socials utilizing the hashtag #GoProLineOfTheWinter each month to be thought of. For extra data and phrases and circumstances, please go to gopro.com.
