For people needing to google this guy, he is 1) a world class mountaineer, climber and skier (he didn't just climb Mount Everest, he skied down it) and 2) one of, if not THE, best mountaineering photographers/filmmakers alive right now. He can not only keep pace with some of the worlds strongest rock and ice climbers, he can film them - artistically! - while doing everything they they do just as skilfully. His first documentary film is called Meru and he filmed a lot of the footage ad hoc while part of a team trying to climb a coveted mountain face in the Himalayas, and since then he and his directing partner made an oscar-winning film called Free Solo about Alex Honnold, one of the best and probably most famous rock climbers in the world, climbing a 2,300 metre rockface with zero ropes or safety equipment. Jimmy Chin is really, really cool.
@@nathangiannini3282 You are right it's 2,307: El Capitan, byname El Cap, mountain in Yosemite National Park, east-central California. One of the park’s most notable landmarks, the granite monolith features nearly vertical walls and stands 7,569 feet (2,307 metres) above sea level and towers some 3,600 feet (1,100 metres) over the western end of Yosemite Valley.. Source Britannia
@@NoahRoach9214 he can do a lot of it, I think the point is that he can reach places and get shots that other film makers aren’t often able to get because he is experienced in a bunch of extreme sports.
As a DP of 12 years thank you for giving kudos to how important we are to a film production. Love how you emphasise on how we insist on getting stuff not necessarily in the script or production schedules. It gets a lot of people frustrated but makes for better films!
such a cool perspective--as someone who is a world class athlete/cinematographer/director/photographer--he literally knows all the different perspectives of each shot
Indeed. I find its not just his voice. After watching Free Solo, 14 Peaks, and Meru, I would say he's a treasure of a human being. I'm sure the accomplishments he's been a part of owe a great deal to the equilibrium that comes across in his voice. . So well measured in unbelievably stressful circumstances.
Jimmy is one of the best in the game. His films Free Solo and The Rescue are the best of their genre. Cool to hear his perspectives on these classic scenes.
Kind of a weird episode, tbh. You usually have person who does thing breaking down scenes of thing. I had to look up who Jimmy is because you didn't have him say what he does. I appreciate and enjoyed watching this, but why did you not title it, 'DP Jimmy Chin breaks down filming in extreme environment scenes'. Because that's what's going on and it's awesome but your title is misleading because by the third vignette, we're all wondering what all this has to do with survival.
I think this one was particularly informed, because he knows the real situations, but also understands the priorities of filming something that looks really cool, at the expense of it "being real." I stopped watching a lot of these, because of the insistence of anything in them being real. if you only want real, don't watch movies.
Duluth Trading has something similar to it, with the vivid blue, but Duluth's is a flannel shirt jacket, and has a more solid yellow, vs his is not a jacket, and is faded yellow or beige. He is sponsored by North Face. So another possibility is it might be one of theirs.
@@theoccasionalmoonlight4050 I mean this is what he shoots, he's not just any DP/director. I'm more critical about the fact that they didn't mention that at the beginning of the video, because obviously everyone unfamiliar with him is gonna assume he's a survival expert.
Jimmy is a god whom I admire, so don't take this the wrong way. Do any of you fans know the timing of this vid? Was he coming off a rough project? He looks a bit haggard.
You know there is actual survival movies right? Jeremiah Johnson Alive Jungle BackCountry Everest The Edge Alaska Open Water Cast Away The 33 Adrift All Is Lost just to name a few And you went with The Lord Of The Rings?