big hot take incoming, but beagle is not a good filmer imo and the sole reason he is kept around is his homie status. things that take away from his footage include constant blown highlights from over exposure, frequent follow filming shakiness, claustrophobic straight on long lens compositions at the bottom of stairs where you only see the person roll away for a foot and half after they land, heads needlessly cut off way to often because he usually doesn't point the fisheye up at all when the skater pops, and times where he even completely misses trick attempts because he became distracted with filming someone else who's not skating goofing off.
all that being said ive still been watching the edits because raw footage is entertaining and its interesting to see the behind the scenes stuff that was going on during this era of baker. in his defense he definitely does have an eye for funny antics and is good at keeping people's mood for the session light so he seems good for the crew's morale. but damn so many errors with his actual filming, during his nine club interview a while back when he was talking about operating a camera he didn't really grasp the absolute day one beginner basics of setting aperture, shutter speed and iso which really shows when watching these tapes, im guessing alot of this is just auto in-camera settings that he locked so they don't change mid trick. im not suggesting that everyone should try to be like ty evans or something and over produce everything, but i guess my whole point here is that many of his clips could have easily been alot better if he was more competent at what he does.
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