​木村：中国跑酷摄影开拓者

木村：中国跑酷摄影开拓者

在中国社交媒体平台上，视频上传者通常喜欢为某些跑酷影片添加“外国人少系列”的标题，这反映出对于中国网民来说，跑酷在本国还不是一项为大众所熟知的运动。人们对于本国跑酷玩家群体不了解，而且也少有人知道，跑酷这项运动不仅刺激感官，更能给人带来美的享受。

来自重庆的90后男生木村，是一名全职极限运动摄影师，主要拍摄跑酷影片。通过他的作品，人们可以看到中国跑酷的许多方面。

在大学阶段，木村的专业与体育无关，但他很喜欢街舞和其他流行文化。为了让自己的街舞技能更丰富，他去武术社团学习空翻，逐渐地，他对那里同学们进行的跑酷训练也产生了兴趣。

在随后的几年里，个性内敛的木村坚持默默练习跑酷，并逐渐融入到了中国顶级跑酷圈。与此同时，他开始拍摄跑酷影片，并不断追求更好的表现手法。

一般的跑酷运动员如果要拍摄一段跑酷影片，通常会把运动相机绑在身上，边跑酷边拍摄，但这种做法很容易使观众感到眩晕。因此，一名合格的跑酷摄影师应该同时掌握两个技能——如何跑酷以及如何获得清晰稳定的图像。

在一定程度上，当跑酷摄影师比当跑酷运动员更累，因为有时为了拍一个镜头，运动员跑多少次，摄影师就要扛着相机跟着跑多少次，而且同时要还注意地面情况、机器情况，以及不要撞到路人。

但对于木村而言，最困难的事情是与运动员进行交流，因为他们大多数人都有正式工作，跑酷只是业余爱好，在策划一个项目的时候很难照顾到每个人的时间安排。此外，每当拍摄面临挑战时，他作为导演，必须决定是说服运动员继续尝试，还是直接放弃。

木村说：“我不是一个善于交流的人，这些年来，我在这方面经历了很多起伏，幸运的是，现在我有了一些可以信赖的朋友能固定地合作。”

由于中国几乎没有专职做跑酷摄影的人，因此木村在大多数自己的项目中，都兼顾制片、导演、摄像、剪辑和后期的角色，而孤军奋战使他的职业发展进程相对缓慢，很多时候他都是在“做实验”。

但这种磨人的工作方式仍有益处，因为它使木村在此过程中掌握了影片制作的多种技巧。现在，木村拍摄的影片主要有三种类型，分别是纯粹的跑酷技能秀、纪录片和跑酷动作片。此外，他还不时地制作一些vlog和其他极限运动影片。

为了提高拍摄技能，木村现在定期参加专业轮滑课。尽管他的工作时间相当灵活，但他经常会在凌晨五点起床剪辑视频，并把日程安排得满满当当，直到晚上十点才结束一天的活动。

自从他的第一部跑酷影片《超级流浪》获得班夫中国户外影像计划最佳摄影奖以来，木村在制作跑酷影片的道路上越来越自信。在谈到未来的目标时，他说：“我想和跑酷运动员们一起，去挖掘跑酷更内在的东西，将中国的跑酷影片提升到更高的层次，让跑酷得到大家的尊重。”

木村作品：

《超级流浪》，云南省，玉龙雪山，2016年；

《年轻城，年轻人》，安徽省，合肥市，2017年；

《破釜沉舟》，四川省，凉山彝族自治州，2018年；

《划破气流——离开原地》，中国西北，2019年；

《跑酷浪潮》，广东省，汕尾，2020年。

Mucun: Trailblazing Chinese parkour filmmaker

On Chinese social media platforms, video uploaders usually would like to give the title "Foreigners are less series" to some parkour footages. That reflects few of the netizens know there is also a group of people in China playing parkour, and this sport could be aesthetic but not only thrilling.

Mucun, born in the 90s in Chongqing, southwest China, is a full-time extreme sports filmmaker, mainly shooting parkour films. Through his works, people could see many aspects of Chinese parkour.

During the college stage, Mucun's major had no relation to sports, but he's interested in street dance and other pop cultures. Once for adding a weapon to his breaking dance arsenal, he went to kungfu society to learn somersault, but then, he was attracted by the alumnus who were also playing parkour there.

Having an introverted nature, Mucun just did parkour exercise silently and gradually got in touch with China's core parkour athletes in the following years. At the same time, he started to record the playing and tried to make it better.

Putting a sports camera on an athlete's body is a general method of taking parkour shots, but that will easily make the audience dizzy. Thus, an eligible parkour cameraman should know about both – how to play parkour and how to get clear images.

Sometimes, shooting parkour film could be, to a certain degree, much tiring than just playing it, as the videographer has to run nearly the same route for many times while controlling the camera, paying attention to terrain, machine, and passengers at the same time.

Mucun climbs over the rail when shooting parkour film, 2020. /Screenshot from Mucun's video

But for Mucun personally, the hardest thing is to communicate with athletes, as most of them have formal jobs, parkour is only their hobby, and it's difficult to organize a project with everyone's schedule suitable. Furthermore, when the shooting comes into a challenge, he has to decide whether to persuade the athlete to continue or not.

"I'm not a person who's good at communicating, and for these years, I have experienced a lot of up and downs on it, fortunately now, I have some faithful friends to cooperate with," Mucun said.

Mucun shoots commercial parkour advertisement. /Screenshot from Mucun's video

As there's rare full-time parkour filmmakers in China, Mucun plays the roles of producer, director, cinematographer, video editor, and special effects maker in most of his projects, and the loneliness makes his career develop slow.

While working alone, it still has benefit as he learns many operations of diverse camera equipment during the process. Now, the main types of his work are pure parkour skill show, documentary, and parkour action movie. Besides, he also did some vlogs and films of other extreme sports.

A frame from Super Tramp project, Yunnan, 2016. /Screenshot from Mucun's video

The video atop the page shows Mucun's main film works:

Super Tramp, Yulong Snow Maintain, Yunnan Province, SW China, 2016;

Young City, Young People, Hefei, Anhui Province, E China, 2017;

The One, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, SW China, 2018;

Walk On - Slash Airstream, NW China, 2019;

The Parkour Wave, Shanwei, Guangdong Province, S China, 2020.

Mucun shoots parkour film with wearing roller skates. /Screenshot from Mucun's video

To improve his shooting quality, Mucun now attends professional roller skating class regularly. Even though he has quite flexible work, he often gets up at 5:00 a.m. to edit video and arranges his schedule with full activities to 10:00 p.m.

Since his first parkour film Super Tramp winning the Banff China Outdoor Film Fest's Best Cinematography Award, Mucun walks on the road of parkour filmmaking more and more confidently. When talking about his goal, he said, "I'd like to make Chinese parkour film to a higher level, and let parkour own everyone's respect."