Insight Into The Process of Skateboard Filmmaking | A doc featuring the best of the best
Those who make skateboard movies are a dedicated bunch. It’s a high stress, lots of work, low paying endeavor with the final product itself now often disappearing from memories only hours after release. Yet they still get it done! Fascinating. Rohum Pourtahmasbi is a skateboard filmmaker from the UK who made a movie that details the process of skateboard filmmaking from many of the big names in the business like Isaac Wilkinson, Ty Evans, Henry Edward-Woods, Greg Hunt and Dan Magee.
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You don’t have to think about the structure of the video as a whole, how different sections will fit together, how music choices interlink…there’s an element of structuring which is removed from the equation.
Exactly – Tony Hawk actually said it in the Nine Club Lakai Premiere episode – you can’t call it a video part if it’s not a part of something. That’s accurate! I feel like when the first single part was introduced, that changed skateboarding. Dylan Reider’s part, P-Rod’s part and Torey Pudwill’s part, they were pretty much the first three I think that went “OK – here’s the skateboarder, not the brand.”
You automatically buy into a skateboarder’s fashion etc. because you love their skateboarding. The problem I have with all of these single sections and with social media clips is that it teaches young skaters that full lengths no longer matter. You can post shit up on Instagram every fucking day, but it doesn’t mean you have to do it. People will use and abuse social media to show off their skateboarding, but people like Heath Kirchart – he’s not on social media and everybody loves him!
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