AIDA Worlds 2004 DVD : Way to Goh!
Posted By Peter Scott on 4 October 2004
Filmmaker Goh Iromoto's excellent DVD of the 4th AIDA Freediving World Championships has raised the bar for documenting freediving competitions. Goh has taken the usual thirty-minute linear account of "what went down" and transformed it into a Hollywood-esque montage of stories and perspectives. And the soundtrack rocks!
This DVD has got it all: great characters, a beautiful setting, drama and suspense, triumphs and misses, hilarity and titillation - all wound up in an epic narrative of North Pacific proportions. I wouldn't really call this work a mere video. Watching it, I felt all the excitement and feeling of watching a real movie.
Producer Goh Iromoto was given the challenge of using his awesome 'on-the-fly' daily short clips to produce a unified narrative for the DVD, and at the same time offer new content for those who were already familiar with the shorts. He solved the problem by adding a few introductory scenes, athlete introductions, and extra footage for each chapter of the competition. There are new shots added within the shorts and some cleaning up of clips.
One of the best things about this DVD is how the constant weight competition is presented. You get to see close-up shots of the athletes on the surface (thanks to the rock steady vantage point from the barge), underwater shots from the surface video, mid-water scuba video and the bottom video. In previous freediving videos, constant weight is shown as an endless parade of freedivers who never surface, swimming up and down in a pale blue wash; in this DVD, there are continuity and an ever-changing point of view, close-ups, a variety of colors and hues and the emerald glow of Vancouver's waters.
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