https://www.jamesramsden.com/2024/03/07/rjfn33oek This is the story of a kid who wished for a small camera and ended up becoming one of the most famous independent film maker in freestyle snow sports. I’m talking about Elmar Bossard and I’m sure you have already heard his name before. Elmar grew up in Aarau and started as a carpenter in his early years, which he didn’t find that fun to do. At that time he was filming a lot at his home resort in, Sörenberg, and at the age of 20 he was offered to work in a skate shop called Paranoia in Luzern, where he is now living with his friends. Elmar is now 28-29 (depending on his mood) and is making a living following his passion for film.

Meet Elmar

Let us get to know you better…What’s your favourite:
Food -> Burgers.
Animal -> I can’t decide if I’m a cat person or dog person.
Personality -> Quiet.
Song style -> Rap mostly, but I like also many other stuff you wouldn’t even imagine.

https://worthcompare.com/apeedwv You are now making movies for a living, how did you get here?
It started at the age of 14 when I saved up all my money from my catholic confirmation to buy my first camera. This is when I started filming snowboarding movies with my friends at our home resort. I’m basically doing the same now, but it’s become my job. I learned by doing and today it’s still the same, I learn new stuff and programs all the time.

It wasn’t my plan to live from filming. We started by doing 8 crew season movies with Shaba Pictures which turned out to be pretty big. We were filming during the entire winter then I was editing all summer till the premiere, and then we went filming again. I wasn’t earning money from it, but it also wasn’t the goal at that time. Suddenly I got some filming jobs with budgets, which is when I realized that I could manage a revenue out of filming. If this film making path didn’t work out, I could still go back to my previous job.

On what projects did you work on so far?
The biggest project was the Swiss Freeski movie which allowed me to film and edit for 15 months. It was pretty challenging because we had to deliver a documentary. It’s hard to film a documentary because you never really know what you are filming for. You just film everything that happens without knowing where it’s going and at the end you have to create a story. The filming part is pretty easy but editing was a long and hard process. There was so much footage to go through and reorder, to cut and to edit, and then work on sound as well. Before, I was used to filming action shots and making cool short edits, but I was really pleased by this new experience.

Filming for a freestyle edit is easy because there are mostly no real stories to build. But in a long documentary you have to build something without being able to actually plan ahead because you never know how it ends and the story might change completely at one point. The process is different from filming some action edits where the only thing that changes is the weather conditions and you can pretty much always make a cool edit to watch. But these edits won’t always have a solid story to tell.

https://www.mominleggings.com/lslh2vh What’s next for you?
Now we will start watching all the tapes from the past 10 years and make a Shaba Cru best-of Movie. We will be looking for some good stuff that hasn’t been seen before and we should be finished in September. We still have a big box of tapes to watch but there will be a big party at the end for sure.

https://wasmorg.com/2024/03/07/fr6fmz6 What’s your biggest challenge?
My biggest personal challenge is to be happy with the end result, which has never happened so far. I can’t show you anything I really like. Of course I’m always working on something and trying to make it perfect. But the challenge is to say: “Ok, now this is cool!”

https://elisabethbell.com/ilqko7d9 Tell us about your showreel.
Not sure I want to call it a “showreel”. In a sense I would like to show everything I did over the course of the last 6 years. But on the other hand I’d like to consider this edit the end in order to start new. I started working on this edit 3 years ago and it couldn’t get it out of my system. There is so much different footage inside and not all in the best quality, but I hope it fits together. This last version of the edit is very different from what I started and now it’s time to put an end to it in order to start with fresh content.

https://www.worldhumorawards.org/uncategorized/u92mfmsg In this work you never know what comes next, how do you feel about that?
Nervous, because at the end of the day you need to pay your bills and with this work style you never know what will come next. But right now I’m happy because it’s been a long time since I’ve had the chance to finish a project and have the feeling that I’m free to work on my own stuff. Up until now it was a never ending working cycle: as soon as one job or project finished there was an other one already waiting. From time to time you need a break to find some new inspirations. But of course I hope I will have some new work shortly, but winter is coming back soon!

What would be your ideal next project?
Hard to say, but I would really like to film a music video someday.

Order Tramadol 180 Tabs Fun filming story?
I bought the Red camera just 2 weeks before I was leaving to New Zealand with the Swiss Freeski team. The timing was super tight with the delivery of the new camera. It finally arrived just one day before we were leaving and I had this new camera that I didn’t really know how to use, and I was now supposed to work with it. I knew that I needed big batteries for the Red so I anticipated by calling the airline to ask how to manage the transportation. They suggested I put them in the luggage that will be checked in. So all 4 big batteries went in my main suitcase and 4 small batteries came in my hand language. When we arrived in NZ, instead of the big batteries in my language, there was a piece of paper telling me that they removed the batteries in Zurich for security reasons. Good times!

What do you like most about your job?
I’m pretty free and can manage the workload myself. Sometimes there’s a concept to work on but most of the time I just have to deliver the action shots. Usually if a client asks me for some pictures it’s because they know I know what i’m doing, so they won’t interfere by telling me how I should film. I really like to do full projects on my own, but I also enjoy just providing footage and seeing how others will edit it.

Tramadol Overnight Delivery Mastercard And what is there that you like less in your job?
Elmar: “Muh.”
Nicki: “Waking up every morning?”
Elmar: “I don’t ever have to wake up so I’m good!”

I would say the deadlines are pretty annoying. That time where you don’t sleep for weeks. That’s when you ask yourself if this is good for you and if this is what you want to do. But then you see the end product and what you have created and you feel good again. After the hard times comes the good.

Thanks for the great chat and the fun photoshoot,
Nicole Antognini

Pictures: Nicole Antognini
Location: Luzern, Switzerland
Links: Elmar’s Portfolio, Elmar’s Instagram