I recently joined a UK website called SkateBook and found a band by the name of Jet Pilot Audio. I heard Kong vs Godzilla Showdown and knew we had to use it for a section of the film. Luckily for us the band are a nice bunch of people and have allowed us to use the track.

Make sure you check out their myspace and expect a link soon. I think I will be using the song for the Corby section, so expect some footage of that other the weekend as I work on that.

I have just recieved a confirmation e-mail from Leeds artist, Slac B (www.myspace.com/defendersofstyle), who says that he will let us use some of his music within our film. I've listened to a few tracks on his MySpace page and they sound wicked - real, chilled out hiphop beats that would be perfect for the graffiti section as well as a number of the skating sections.

I will get in contact with him within the next couple of days and see if he has any MP3's that he could send to me to see which parts of the footage they go best with.

I do love making test footage, just trying out different ways of making the footage we capture look different from other bits of footage already floating about. Well Drew and Mo shot this time lapse footage today (or yesterday, technically) and I know the guys from PDS want to see it. So although this isn't the the final thing it's nice to see it anyway. Right I am far too drunk to stay up any longer adios mu chachos (mate, dunno if that is how you spell it at all ahaha!)

Ah the one we have been waiting for. We will be filming the Kong guys, who have been one of the biggest assets to the making of this film over anyone else. I am really looking forward to this. I dont know what my personal role will be just yet but I am hoping to get some great footage, we have been promised some talented skaters so now it is just our turn to do them justice.

The sound piece should hopefully be done tomorrow, and I hope to see some footage by the end of the week. Once everything is shot I think I will post up the film format for those of you who are interested in seeing how the film will flow.

All in all the film is feel really positive, and we feel positive that we can make inspire and entertain those who do skateboard and to inform and educate those who dont, about the ways in which skateboarding has affected those who do, and try and express skateboarding more as an artfrom rather than as a means of annoying people in towns.

We need to distinguish the difference between skateboarders, those who cause trouble and never have a true feel for what skating is and those that have done it for years that live skateboarding, we also want to show the whole array of opinions have about skateboarding and also express how graffiti is a part of skateboarding and how there are two sides of graffiti, those that simply tag their names and those that create works of art legally.

The rough cut it looking very good and has already had over 2,000 views on youtube which is positive news for us. Further additions to the film will be shortly added . Drew and myself will be filming the graffiti artist on Tuesday and recording some short interviews. We have contacted various musicians about using their music we had found via myspace so just awaiting further confirmation and actual hard copies of the material. We will keep you updated about the next shoot!

So here is the first rough cut, and I would like to point out rough, of course if everyone loves it, then it's near final haha, but it is missing it's interview audio which will go over the quieter areas of the video.

Had to make it slightly shorter because I was simply running out of footage, we shot loads but some of it was unusable, some just didn't fit and the rest is pretty much in the video.

Anyhow, feedback would be much appreciated as I am about to start work on the Corby footage if I can find some sound for it. Not really sure what music we want for it yet, will talk to Drew he is kind of our music skate video expert.

Ok worked on this today, my new laptop is a beast, it was able to convert a gigs worth of video in about 30 seconds, which on my old laptop would have taken two hours, hillarious.

This might be how the footage to the London section as the footage before it is stylised the same way using skaters from Rugby. There was a very crude version that I put up sometime ago, titled 'Animation Tests' of Drew skating.

Here is a closer version of what the finished product could look like, comments and opinions much appreciated.

Ah so we now have a bit more music to add on the video, Cutting Pink with Knives, an odd mix of heavy punk/metal vocals with pop electro beats. It's yet another unique blend of music that we feel will feel right at home on the film.

On a different note, this weekend I plan to work on a rough cut of the London section, I have now captured about 50% of the footage we have shot so far and later today I will start putting it together, although I may do a London teaser first and upload that.

It seems Canvas is starting to feel like it could be a cool film about skateboarding, it feels more down to earth using the average skater, the tricks might not be the most mind blowing but it makes me want to skate more than other skate footage, makes me hope I could do some of those tricks haha!

Everything is sorted for Wednesday's shoot in Rugby. We've confirmed a meeting with a member of the infamous PDS crew who will help us in the creation of our opening sequence (watch this space!) amongst other things.

I met up with DJ Addiction (www.myspace.com/djaddictionswerve), a massive name in the drum'n'bass business, who has hooked us up with the Kong skate team to film in Coventry next week. He's been a massive help in the production of this video so far and we'll discuss any tunes of his that we can use in the film closer to the time.

Also, I have spoken to one of Leed's hottest new, up-and-coming drum'n'bass producers, SMS (www.myspace.com/smsslacman), who seems keen to take part in the video. His fresh and unique, vibrant sound should suit the video well, we just have to watch out for any uncleared samples that might get us in trouble!

Over the last few days we have been looking over the footage we filmed at Corby with the SS-20 lads and time coding. We have some pretty neat footage of the skaters as you may have seen from the teaser Adam has put together. The actual day at Corby went pretty smooth and we have endless footage of skaters doing their thing.

Next week we will hopefully be filming a skater from the Midlands and using the footage as part of an animation.

Keep checking the websites for regular updates!

I have spoken to Mr Penfold, a graphic artist famed for his drum'n'bass flyers (these can be seen on his MySpace page, www.myspace.com/gresh) who has said that he is up for taking part in the film. I will get in contact with him in the near future to discuss more about the film but am pleased with all of the big names that we now have on the video. Watch this space for more from Penfold!

Had a little problem with importing some footage from one of our cameras, (the better camera). But we have a little snippet, it's only test footage but I think you get the idea haha! Enjoy.

I got word back from Bierler Bros. Skindred's record label and although they were happy for us to use the song it came with a hefty price tag of $1000 or £505 in native currency.

That's just a price we cannot afford to pay since this entire film has been self financed anyway.

So I will start to look for some new music for the SS-20 section, I am pretty sure that SS-20's section will be the first one we will work on so look out for the rough cut within the next week or two.

I was listening to Skindred's latest album, which I got the other day, I was quite a fan of their first album which I first heard in Metal clubs that I used to go to in Romford and forgot all about them, found out they had a new album out and decided to get it.

'Roots, Rock, Riot', ah tis a great album and a few songs that played I knew I wanted to have on Canvas. The first was 'State of Emergency' and then later I heard 'Killing Me' and the more I listened to that song I started imagining the film working around it.

So I have decided to get in touch with both the band and their record company. I have nothing to really offer in terms of money, I am quite poor now having replaced my laptop but I have offered to advertise the album on the site. To be honest it would be great to have the song on the album as Skindred are a UK band trying something new and different and making it work incredibly well.

It would be cool to have that on top of the SS-20 footage which I think would be deserving of this music.

I will let you know when I hear something about it.

So my laptop has blown up so I will be hopefully buying a new one soon but it does mean I have lost a few bits of work and some important emails and am using my phone to update the site.

On to some news about the film. Drew has got some graphitti artist lined up but I will get him to fill you in on that. Also I have some music in mind for the Corby shoot. As soon as they get back to me I will let you all know who and what song it is. That's all for now.

Ok I have made a decision to move over to Wordpress. Blogger is alright but it sucks because I cant really do some of the things I want with blogger, because it's lack of php and I cant really make many changes to it.

Anyway Animal-Finder 4.0! hazaa, noone ever saw 1.0 to 2.0 but I spent weeks on them, and I like the current design, but since doing it I have learnt so much so yeah, it is time, to take it one step further. It also means that maybe we will be able to put up more video stuffs too and maybe the rest of the guys will do some updates too.

Damn it's April and I am used to April Showers but there is thick snow. This ruins my opportunity to skate today, how bothersome.

Anyway as far as I know (since I wasn't able to get there) the Corby shoot went really well, we were able to get lots of footage and interview from some big names in skateboarding, I was only told of one in a brief text but I know Dan Cates was there.

I will put up some of the London photo's either today or tomorrow and I am also thinking of dumping blogger, it's very restrictive, I may move over to a Wordpress install instead.

So we shot in London, we hopefully got some good footage as a there were quite a few really talented skaters there that day. Some famous faces but I won’t say too much.

Again we came up against our usual problem, when skaters are there (Southbank), they are there to relax and just skate. It isn’t a major problem for us but it does mean that we just have to be lucky and catch what we can.

Corby shoot is on Friday, and Drew will be taking the lead on that. That should be a lot better as it is an event and we should get some great footage of that.

I was on the SS-20 website today because I want some new wheels, they have some 49mm ones, bit pricey but Rollersnakes only have Ricta for 49mm and I am not too sure about them.

Anyway I will be checking out some of the footage as soon as possible. I need a DV camera so I can digitise the footage and began editing. I will also upload some photos of the two day trip as we didn't get the chance to get an interview from French, hopefully we will soon.

I will also start posting up some bits of pieces of footage too!