March 26th, 2010

Chad Waldron Videographer Profile

One of the longest standing videographers in the bodyboarding game, Chad Waldron is the man behind BOOM! podcasts and has a swag of best selling titles under his belt, including ‘Denis’, ‘Raised Heights’ and ‘The Ben Player Project’. A man who seems to have an endless amount of creative inspiration and talent behind the lens, Chad takes a minute to give 71 an insight into his world…

Lives The Central Coast. North Avoca
Years Filming 11
How did you get into it? We got a camera for chirstmas and started taking turns filming our friends. And it kinda snow balled from there.
How much of your time does it take up, and long has it been that way: Since launching the podcast I try to treat it like a full time job. Some times it’s more, it gets pretty hectic like 80hr+ when you have a tight deadline approching, but then other times you can have alot more time on your hands like when you’re concepting ideas and writing up proposals or inbetween job etc.
Favourite Riders Winny, Novy, Ben and Dallas They are always keen to push themself and
give 110% and never neg out on trips. And have always stuck with us since
the begining
Favourite Location to Film home/ anywhere from water
Your personal favourite vid so far I’d have to say Denis. It had such a fun year filming. And the premier
was massive, packed cinema over 500 in a 400 seated cinema, people crowding
the isles, goon bags flowing and one of the craziest nights I’ve ever had.
Equipment panasonic HVX202, Sony FX1 Dave Kelly housing centry 2x centry .6 wide
angle, miller tripod senhizer lapel mic, rode shot gun mic + boom miller
D20 tripod, Gopro HD and Sony fx1
Inspirations Music videos, new camera equipment, good surfing and wanting to always
do better .
Craziest situation you’ve been in? Almost drowning at lunas.
Plans for this year? No idea yet. Just going to roll with the punches. Hopefully a new series on the podcast.
Shoutouts http://boompodcast.com

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