Not to mention the shorts and Hunters two-year portrait: Soulstar.
I was understandably hyped to hear what the boys had cooked up this time.
Expect creativity in both the skiing, from A Hall and Hunter, and the filming/production from Owen.
Theyve all come a long way in their prospective areas of expertise since Magma I.
After the break, why did you guys come back to make the third?
Owen: Its kind of a trilogy thing.
We never stopped filming together anyway, so we just thought we might as well make a third.
Theyre pretty fun to make anyway!
A Hall: Not always!
We pretty much just discussed whether we should make another one or not and we decided to do it.
Hunter: I dont really know why.
The first two, we only filmed for a little bit, like they were small windows.
So, this one was done over the whole winter?
A Hall:Yeah, well definitely on and off.
We were kind of picking and choosing windows, starting pretty much in November and finished in June.
How did that work?
With you two being so busy with the contest scene and shooting a full movie?
Is it only really doable the way you did it?
Hunter: Yeah, we just tried to take full advantage of any opportunity.
Over Christmas, we did all of the urban stuff, over a three-week trip.
You released a few shorts, like jumping over Bucky Lasek, are they separate from the Magma movies?
But yeah, they are completely separate.
Where was the movie shot?
Owen:All over!
We went out to California for the slush jumps, then went back to hood.
We were kind of bouncing around all over the place.
Owen:It was kind of Hunters brainchild.
He was the mastermind behind it all and he brought us all together.
Hunter: Magmawas all three of us.
Its never going to just be me, just be Alex or just be Owen.
It will always include all of us.
For Alex and I, if Owen is doing other things, we could film other things as well.
The group, as a whole, is Owen, A Hall and I.
A Hall:It kind of comes in waves though.
The first movie it was all Hunter and Owen I just kind of showed up and skied.
The second and third movies were maybe more of a group effort.
We all play our parts, we all plan certain spots or certain trips and pitch ideas.
Its always a group discussion, like where we want to go, what we want to film.
Whens the movie out?
Hunter:Were not sure yet, November, December, something around then.
Well do a couple of premieres in October hopefully.
[haha it just dropped, go watch it!]
Without giving too much away, which segment/spot should we look out for?
Then we maybe werent thinking that the ending would work out the way that it did.
At least for me, it was quite the experience.
It was the last day that wed have the opportunity to film, the snow levels werent helping.
That was fortunate and made for some real emotion.
Nothing was fronted, fake or staged.
No Go Pro high five sh*t, it was all pretty legit.
A Hall:We built a jump in Hood, that took us a couple days to build.
Owen and I had to leave by June 16th, so we only had three or four days left.
I ended up going solo and scoping all the zones.
There was way less snow than we thought there would be.
We shot Magma 1 in July, but we were up there in June this year.
We just shovelled this jump for two days straight and hit it on the third day.
It was literally the last day that we could film it.
Like Hunter said, I think it tied everything together.
It felt like we were missing the final piece, but getting that final session was a good ending.
Owen:It was fortunate that it worked out, I was stressing about it!
Hunter: Owen was stressing hard, but the stars aligned and it all worked out.
If Magma III completes the trilogy, does that mean this is it for full-length movies?
Owen:I think well just retire the title Magma for the movies, leave it as a trilogy.
Well explore other avenues, still make videos and produce longer & shorter videos, everything.
I think well just change it up a little bit.
Im sure we could film the same stuff and call it Granite or something.
Owen:Hot lava!
Soul Star was under Magma?
Cool, while were here do you guys have much planned for the winter?
I guess you two (A Hall + Hunter) will be following the contests?
Pretty much just film, for me at least, as much as I can between events.
I just dont want to put so much pressure on myself as I did for this one.
More just kind of roll with it and get footage when I can.
Not specifically for any particular longer project, just more figure it out later kind of vibe.
Well figure all that out and probably later in the year well have a legitimate, locked in plan.
I do have some other things on my plate that Im trying to pursue.
