How To Make A Section - Part IV
January 14, 2008
BentFilms’ new project Cop Me And My Newb Joey is just a few months away. A video compilation of the best submitted amature skiboarding videos. Each month we’ll be giving out some pointers on how to shoot/edit/make a legit skiboard seciton. Take these tips in, and you’re skiboard section could be put in the next BentFilms flick!
This month LIFESTYLE SHOT and the advantage of FILLER.
So we touched on this in last month feature; the whole world surrounding shredding on sticks is much more vast than the act itself. Adding filler and lifestyle shots to a section and it adds personality and style to the riders or yourself, and makes it a lot more entertaining than a bunch of 2 second clips of faceless short stick riders played over until the music fades out.
Documentation and representation.
Look at yourself. What do you see? I see a white man with a big nose, wild beard and condom tall cap of Dutch descent whose great great great great great great grandfathers didnt treat the Native Americans too well and may have a few blood stains war-painted on his past. Doesn`t mean I can’t film some lifestyle shots of myself blacking and pup pupping some shots at the camera to play the fool every once in a while.
Shredding and filming a video part gives you the opportunity to offer an audience a charicature of yourself, yourself, a satire of yourself, and a few shakes more or less. I call it playing with form. At any rate, you have the opportunity to create a 4 minute presentation for your peers, so whose to say what flare you can and can`t offer to the world.
Granted, for Copmeandmynewbjoey, we want raw un-edited footage and a song you have permission to shred to, but with it, we encourage you to send us a detailed explanation as well. We will do what we may, but its all considered. Leave it in our hands and provide us with plenty of shred, stoke and things you think are beautiful/stupid/irrelevant/interesting. Who knows what will happen, theres always a bonus reel!
