skateboard video festival
along side me doing my final major project i came acroos a few short videos people had put up demonstaring there skills in editing and using skateboarding as a main attribute of the video.
http://vimeo.com/3011863
The one that really caught my attenetion was a edit called lil balloon, which was jsut a small edit one on set of steps shot with a high speed camera and low lighting and loads of colourfull ballons all over the place, edited to a very earry circus style elctronic beat, the idea is a very simple one but also in the same respect there was a lot creative thought put into the shots used and the sequences http://vimeo.com/3385465
SKATEPARK HIRE DATE CHANGED
Due to a big skateboard event taking place on the 21st of Feb i have had to change it and move it to the following week. A price has now been settled, the hire will cost £60 a hour and we have booked for two hours, but the manager of the skate park has said to call it £150 and if it goes over that time then that will cover it, which is a good deal.
I have also had to change the equipment hire times and have taken a extra tri=pod and camera this time. So hopefully everything is set to go from the 28th of Feb.
filming planning
Now i have more of a idea of what i want to produce for this project i have started to put together some rough story boarded ideas, using images of the skatepark as refrence of where it is possible to shoot. the planne ddate for this trip is on the 21st of Feb, A Saturday, and plan to shoot the whole thing in that one night. All the information you need on the park can be found at http://www.theworksskatepark.co.uk/
My plans for this project have changed to what i wanted to do originally to due to my university not wanting to help with letting students experiment, i wonder where all the money we all pay for uni actually goes?So because of this I am having to re-think me idea and try to incorporate skateboarding again. As i wanted to create something to demonstrate skateboarding and the interaction in the sport my plan is to hire out a indoor skate and light it up using lights and a projector to project visuals on to the ramps. these visuals will change when tricks are performed and landed. with hopefully if it goes to plan to create better effects with use of a smoke machine. and maybe a low laying fog machine or bubble machine.
the video will be shot in hi-definition and edited in final cut to a selected piece of music.
Carrying on from the last project i have decided to stay with skateboarding, but this will not be using pads and screens as in my specialist project. MY idea for this project/unit is to create and shoot a very different skate video apposed to a standard pro sectioned skateboard video. My video will be more of a montage and not just consisting of skateboard tricks, with a lot more personal and scenic shots of different architecture. The film will be more focusing on the shoots and different techniques, but also answering a theme of the video, showing skateboarding in its urban surroundings and how the they both interatc with each other. This will show my interaction and answer the brief.
If everything goes to plan i hope to be shooting in hi-def to produce a professional and crisp feel about my short. My location for this piece is to be shot in barcalona. as this has become world renound for its amazing skate spots and its beautiful architecture and also has a huge amount of history behind. This i am hoping with help me with portaying skatboarding in a new and light and demonstrating it as a art aswell as a exstreme sport.
