Short film shot with GoPro and edited with FCPX

I'm new to Final Cut Pro X, and here is my second project.

This movie has been shot in January with GoPro 3+ Black Edition without protune mode in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
I've just purchased this camera and this is my first time filming with GoPro, so there were lot's of awefull raw data files.
All the videos have been shot in 1080p 60fps.
Final movie was exported as Apple ProRes 422 and then uploaded to youtube.

As I already told this is one of my first project with FCPX, so it will be great to hear all the negative and positive comments about it.

Enjoy watching

Sincerely,
Valeriy

Any comments? No one?

Good edit...

But I am not a fan of excessive use of flashes or flash wipes. If they don't serve a specific purpose, don't use them I say.

I often challenge young editors to show me something with straight cuts only - no x-dissolves, no wipes... Shoot clean, with tempo and then work on from there.

Also reverse timing clips again should serve a purpose. But fun all the same

Your eye for telling the story is great. Keep it up.

Dean...

I agree with Deano. Concentrate on telling the story, not effects. I would recommend doing this again, but forbid yourself from using any transitions or effects of any kind at all. When you can do that, then you can decide what transition or effect will contribute to the story.

In a nutshell, every movie tells a story, think of it as a book.

Every scene contributes information to that story.
Every scene is a chapter in the book.

Every shot in a scene contributes information to that story.
Each shot is a word for phrase.
Every edit point is punctuation.

Never add anything if you can not specifically and factually state what information it gives the audience, that they need, in order for the story to move forward.

There is an out of print book, you can still find copies here and there, by Micheal Wohl called "Apple Pro Training Series: The Craft Of Editing". Or something like that. Find a copy, read through it. Actually do the exercises. It was written for legacy FCP, but you can ingest the media that comes with it and create the scenes from scratch in FCPX. Especially do the first lessons, editing a film called Hope. If that is all you do in that book, you'll be light years ahead of the game, and it will pay itself off. No other book like it on the market that is hands on to teach the "language" of editing.

Editing must follow rules of communication, it is logical, it is structured, it is not chaotic and random. If you do something just because it looks "cool" in an edit, delete it immediately.

I think you get the idea here.

Great job, keep doing more and more work, it only gets better over time.
And remember, the learning never stops. The day you say, "I don't have time to learn something new" is the day you will stagnate and your work quality will go down the crapper.

Thank you guys for your suggestions, I will take them into account and will check the book offered.

There were books I scanned years ago and they are now available on iBooks (and Kindle for that matter):

THE GRAMMAR OF THE EDIT
THE GRAMMAR OF THE SHOT

Both books by: Christopher J.Bowen.

A must read for anyone serious about entering this industry.

Dean...