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I hope everyone enjoys it. I will link to them from here also.
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Ah well here it is anyway.
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I will also be putting up as high as possible quality version of it online and most likely onto Google video, since its 25mins long, I will have to put it up in three parts.
It would nice to be see what people think of it and we will probably be sending out a few copies to skateboard mags and even extreme channel, to see what they say about it.
And we will let everyone know what they said about it. hehe they will have to say something good then or people will see they aren't nice. it's almost like non-discriminatorymail
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Sound piece test with music and attempting to get other the opinions visually. Maybe that is a little biased on our part though. Thinking about just have it a nice relaxed B&W footage. Since the actual footage isn't bursting with colour, we were in Rugby after all, even the grass was grey!
Haha! Drew :P
Music: Caveman - Flatoonja
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Two posts in one day, haha, I am feeling the pressure. So I have done the first minute today. It's taken me about 5 hours. It's all the split screen and the colouring and stuff. Lining up shots and getting the timing correct is very hard work.
Putting it up because I dont want to do an entire section and someone say to me that they dont like it. I would kill them.Oh yeah and I haven't done too much with sound levels yet so sorry about that.
Labels: Canvas, Cutting Pink With Knives, Kong
This is the first 10mins of the rough cut. It is still missing the audio interviews but we hope to have them all in the film by Monday. Looking forward to having it done and also working towards getting it on DVD showing everyone. Two weeks...Not long left now.
Ok so this is the rough cut of the animation segment, which follows Corby and ends just before London.
Music is Cutting Pink With Knives - Laser Hannon
Labels: Canvas, Cutting Pink With Knives, Rough Cut
This is the rough cut for SS20 and the Corby section, filmed at the Adrenaline Alley. I am pleased with it. Took a bit longer than the first one (London) I am not a massive fan of vert skating but it is the favourite of the two with the group, with new understanding of why. Answers on a postcard.
This one, I would say is slightly rougher than London but then again I was luckier with the footage from there as it needed less work, ho hum, noone said it would be easy.
Music is by Jet Pilot Audio and you can find a link to their myspace just to the side so if you are interested in hearing more from them check that out.
We have started shooting our Coventry / Kong footage. Got some great stuff, those guys have some real talented skaters on their hands and hopefully they and Kong themselves will go far in the future.
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.
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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.
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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.
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!
Both the London footage and the SS-20 looks great and I am looking forward to editing them. Once I get the right equipment that is.
So this was only going to be a short update as I know a few people are waiting to see footage of SS-20, I promise I will have it done soon.
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.
'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.
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.
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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.
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!
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So we have the filming at Corby with the SS-20 guys 100% confirmed. Should be cool. Filming at night on the 4th of April. We are hoping that the light situation is good enough but the Z1's iris should be able to handle the slightly low light.
One other problem would be the orange light, but that shouldn't be a problem either since we are going to be after effecting all the footage we capture.
Anyway SS-20 has been an established skate shop for 20 years, (you can see huge ads for them in sidewalk if you look out for it.) So we are hoping that the footage we get will be really great. We have three hours there to shoot.
Corby has also recently added a huge half-pipe and is one of the better skate parks in the UK.
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We have also been invited to film a skate event in Corby, as far as we have been told its a private event and the skate team has booked the entire night out just for themselves so we could get some very nice indoor footage for the film.
We also have a MySpace group, as much as I dislike it MySpace will be very useful for getting us better known to people and Drew runs that.
Getting a bit worrying as we will start filming in two weeks time and there is a lot to do. I just hope the quality of skateboarding this time around is a lot better.
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Okay well so in terms of getting music that front has been very good so far. We have been given permission to use a few songs by Meet Me In St. Louis, which I have edited together and can be heard above and also DJ Addiction, who will be putting together a Dub-Step track for us to also play on the film, which means that we only have to find one other piece of music to go, which is likely to go to the Milton Keynes section of the film.
I have loads of stuff to update but a few problems with the website have stopped me from doing that but it is now standard compatible and have spent most of tonight getting it to work and so now at 2:41 am I am chilling out listening to The Clash and updating this.
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Ok this is a short tester for what will be the first animated part of our finished film. Canvas will feature two animated pieces, one will be line-art rotoscoping of some of the footage captured during filming.
The purposed of this piece is to propose that skateboarding can be seen as an artform and not only just a sport or a choice of lifestyle. The purpose of the animation is to show off the artistic quality of the skateboard trick and motion.
I hope that the end product will be a melee of different styles and looks all in one, with a voice over that will further aknowledge the idea of skateboarding as art itself. Similar to how dance can also be seen as an artform.
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I can't blame them though, we just randomly turned up and they had come to practice there so it's kind of our own fault in a way but it was a very useful learning curve for the whole team that people aren’t that interested in being a part of a skate video, unless I guess they have heard of you and it's going to be worth it.
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