Max Your Days

Year: 2016 Behind The Scenes, Commercials, Short Films, Videos

Imagine the summer day to end all summer days – a supercharged stretch of time where everything is too perfect and you have no choice but to get outside and take full advantage. This is what our latest collaboration with The North Face is all about.

The solstice represents that ideal day, officially ushering in the summer and offering the maximum amount of that sweet nectar called daylight. We chose to celebrate this ideal for our latest project and dreamt up an optimal day where not a minute would be wasted from dawn to dusk. ‘Max Your Days’ starts with a glimpse into an ordinary morning in the life of pro snowboarder and North Face Athlete David Carrier Porcheron, but quickly transitions into something entirely different when a Chevrolet Impala full of rowdy gapers pulls up to his house. Flash-forward through a blur of outdoor adventuring and you’re barbequing tofu hotdogs with a ukulele-playing Cedar Wright on the edge of a cliff above a churning river. Consider the day seized.

Honestly, the project was technically challenging – snowboarding, skateboarding, biking, kayaking, rock climbing, cliff jumping, wakeboarding and surfing were all woven into one surreal experience for our team. To capture the dynamic cameras movements we had in mind, we used a Red Dragon camera mounted on a Ronin system with an external monitor and remote focus-pulling device, filling in the blanks with GoPro POVs and a DJI Inspire 1 drone. All said and done, we’re pretty happy with the end result.

‘Max Your Days’ allowed us to revisit and showcase some of our favorite areas in British Columbia, on Vancouver Island and in the Sea-to- Sky Corridor. Specific locations include Whistler, the Ashlu River in Squamish Valley, Cheakamus Canyon and Nootka Island. That said, it’s the people that really made this production what it is.

We were blessed to work and spend time with so many exceptional local athletes from a variety of sports, and were reminded of just how wildly talented and creative British Columbians can be. Not to mention the other North Face athletes who came out – Tom Wallisch, Ian McIntosh, Cedar Wright, Alex Johnson and John Collinson all played awesome roles.

This project sums up why we got into filmmaking in the first place – we’re enamored with the outdoors and won’t stop exploring until we can’t walk.

How do you max your days?

#MaxYourDays

CREDITS

Executive Producers: Landon Basset, Brandon Baker, Aimee Tetreault

Producers: Malcolm Sangster, Roland Eksteins, Steve Henderson

Director: Dave Mossop

Cinematography: William Binamé, Jake Dyson, Leo Hoorn, Mason Mashon, Dave Mossop, Kyler Vos, Darcy Wittenberg

Gimbal/Drone Operator: Jeff Patterson

1st AD: Stu Andrews, Leighli Porcheron

Aerial DOP: John Trapman

Heli Pilot: Kelsey Wheeler

Post Production Supervisor: Tim Symes

Editors: William Binamé, Dave Mossop, Steve Henderson, Tim Symes

Sound Design: Jeff Yellen, Steve Henderson, Tim Symes

Sound Mix: Jeff Yellen

Visual Effects: Jeremy Kenning

Colorist: Eric Rosen

Music: Artist – DVA, Album – Nipomo, Song – Mulatu (REMIX by Jacob Yoffee)

Music Supervisor: Right Workshop & Brooke Wentz

Special thanks to Christian Bagg, Whistler 101.5 Whistler FM & Pique News Magazine

GAPER DAY

House Coat Guy: David Carrier Porcheron (DCP)

Slingshot Dude: Rory Bushfield

Grape Holder: Tom Wallisch

Gaper Stunts: Colin D. Watt, Mark Tremblay, Mark Abma, Chris Turpin, Jake Dyson, Patrick Hughes, Joe Schuster, Corey Vanular, Casey Dean, Tom Wallisch

Gapers: Mirae Campbell, Jessica Soparlo, Jimmy “Cherry Red Impala”, Laporte, Lynsey Stephens, Steve Henderson, Vince Edmond, Trevor Armstrong, Mason Mashon, Antoine Truchon, Ollie Jones, Hailey Elise, Linsey Stevenson, Hannah Lister, Roland Eksteins and many more fine looking folks! Huge Thanks!

Many thanks to Chris McLeod, Emily Wright and everyone at Whistler Blackcomb. Also, a big thanks to the folks at Canadian Wilderness Adventures: Gerogie Stuart, Gavin Williams & Nick Ryall.

SKATEBOARDING (Whistler Skate Park)

Skateboarders: DCP, Simon Dunand, Mike Klinkhammer, Braedon Wheeler

RollerBlader: Colin D. Watt

Skatepark HangerOuters: Megan Pischke-Porcheron, Reef Porcheron, Leighli Porcheron, David Brocklebank, Kody Williams, Patrick Samson, Pascal Choquette, Connor Warnock, Davina Dubé, Trish Bromley, Trevor Armstrong, Chicken (the dog)