|
|
Post by forelander on Feb 15, 2004 16:25:51 GMT -5
So i finally started filming for a sponsor tape. On saturday morning at 6 am i get up, ring my friend (aka filmer) and begin my skate to the local skate park. about 50 metres from the back i notice something isn't quite right, stop, pop the board into my hand only to have the top half of my back truck fly off. The bolt had come lose, that metal thing came off and so did the top rubber. after much cursing and a fruitless search for the missing parts, i walked the rest of the way to the park and awaited my friend.
he came and we began the voyage home, and searched around for parts. He found the rubber and later i found the metal thing. With a new hope we searched for the bolt...and couldnt find it. so i put half my truck on, flipped the board over really fast and began skating home on a dodgy truck missing a rubber. i got a bolt off an old truck, jammed everything together, tightened it and off we went back to the skate park. so after all this about an hour or more of filming time with no annoying sun or heat was wasted, but i digress. to top things off, my board went through a puddle of water and half the tricks i filmed were on a soggy, popless board.
so that's my first experience with filming, what crap has happened to almost entirely ruin your day of skating?
(PS there was another time when i was trying to switch 360 flip a bank and my bearing exploded...i found someone with a skate tool, took the bearing out, then landed it).
|
|
|
|
Post by Blink182Sucks on Feb 15, 2004 21:09:16 GMT -5
That must have sucked bigtime...my first experience with filming was ok, except when u see how bad ur style is (sometimes) and when u have to do takes over and over, man that really sucks.
|
|
|
|
Post by whocares on Feb 15, 2004 21:23:19 GMT -5
yes... i saw my skating once....... and my style sucked...
|
|
|
|
Post by snuffy shiteside on Feb 15, 2004 22:43:51 GMT -5
i've never filmed myself
worst thing thats happened to ruin my skating lately is my shoulder is destroyed, can't pick up heavy things anymore, and to do a nice styled out as s on the ground layback slide hurts worse than anything i've ever felt.
|
|
|
|
Post by headcheese on Feb 15, 2004 22:53:54 GMT -5
it seems whenever i plan to go out and film something, i can never get the trick or whats even worse do the trick and then have to do it again for the filmer. this happens to me a lot. my official filmer friend usually never starts filming unless he's seen me do it once and when most of the tricks i try are pretty tech and can take ages to do, it becomes a huge problem. also whenever i have a big day of filming planned i usually have a mental list of spots and tricks that i want to get on film. however it never ever works out that way. something always happens to screw my plans up and usually on a planned filming day i don't get any good footage at all.
|
|
|
|
Post by forelander on Feb 16, 2004 0:39:17 GMT -5
i suppose it wasn't that bad...as headcheese can testify i did get some pretty decent footage...
and you know what happens when you plan to land a trick...planning to film a trick at a spot would be way worse.
|
|
|
|
Post by headcheese on Feb 16, 2004 1:31:46 GMT -5
yep the footage you got was pretty damn good. skating plans as we both know never work out.
|
|
|
|
Post by whocares on Feb 16, 2004 17:59:42 GMT -5
it seems whenever i plan to go out and film something, i can never get the trick or whats even worse do the trick and then have to do it again for the filmer. this happens to me a lot. my official filmer friend usually never starts filming unless he's seen me do it once and when most of the tricks i try are pretty tech and can take ages to do, it becomes a huge problem. also whenever i have a big day of filming planned i usually have a mental list of spots and tricks that i want to get on film. however it never ever works out that way. something always happens to screw my plans up and usually on a planned filming day i don't get any good footage at all. been there, done that, bought the t-shirt |
|
|
|
Post by viceversaman on Feb 18, 2004 2:49:55 GMT -5
some of the time i'll get like my mate to get like someting that we can paint all the spots we can goto on and chuck it like die and do there. making plans is like the biggest kinx a skater can possibly do/make/create/what evs.
so andy, you coming along good?
does anyone hate watching vids and a person will make a line and as it cuts to the next bit they keep pushing, like no celebrating or nothing like they are about to keep going with the line? it kinda leaves a empty feeling knowing that the person couldnt be bothered to keep trying over and over even though i paid money to see em skate. i dunno, maybe its just me. what evs.
|
|
|
|
Post by headcheese on Feb 18, 2004 4:58:53 GMT -5
that annoys me a little as well. they do a few tricks and keep pushing then it cuts to something else. i get the feeling that either they don't wanna show how happy they are with the line cause its not "cool", or they have another trick and stuffed it up so it was cut.
|
|
|
|
Post by Blink182Sucks on Feb 18, 2004 22:00:25 GMT -5
Off topic, but the Australian IP addresses are pretty weird  |
|
|
|
Post by tubbyturd on Feb 19, 2004 11:11:16 GMT -5
I do some filming from time to time, trying to get (more) sponsors for my friend cory -- I've only gotten some simple flatland tricks of myself. I doubt anyone would wanna see me do a beanplant down a set or something, haha.... [edit] you can see some of the stuff we've got at www.unknownskater.comI'll take submissions too -- email me for requirements |
|
|
|
Post by bodkinator on Feb 19, 2004 20:10:41 GMT -5
haHA! I win, because I have nevr filmed at all! Only taken pics, and the pics were sweet, if I don't say so myself. I have a stylish ollie when I pull it off down gaps and stairs. But most of the time, I just took pictures of other people skating that I knew at our spots.
|
|
|
|
Post by Thnikkaman on Feb 22, 2004 21:29:00 GMT -5
I haven't filmed anything worth crap in a long time. The last thing I filmed was me ollieing over a log with my broken Zero. It was held together just by griptape, and it was flexy as hell.
|
|
|
|
Post by viceversaman on Feb 24, 2004 2:39:35 GMT -5
these days i barely film. im what ya would call a back up skater, like whether im sicker than the person being filmed or not im usually sitting waiting for them to break their spine before i make anything up seriously. and im always fliming just like one lines and putting them in my friends' parts in videos.
im like a lurker V2, im good.
|
|
