So its time for me to document the process of making our documentary, a making of blog if you like. So our Doc began as something based on the musical influences around Liverpool however most of us were not keen on the fact it would become a Beatles project. A few days later Jordan, the Director, saw a Doc about tattooing that was about the passion the tattooist had in his work. So we decided it would be better to make a Doc about someone with passion about their work, from this the idea of Independent stores vs big corporations arose. On the day of our pitch we got together and discussed the idea and the Lost Art Skate Shop, the store we planned on basing the doc on. We get an email from the owner saying he didnt want us to do it on the shop however we also found a news article about the New Bird DIY skate park that was made by skaters who had nowhere to skate, it was then fenced off when CoOp bought the land. The skaters recently worked a deal out in which the insurance was paid by the previous owners. We thought this story had a really nice natural narrative and decided to do the pitch and doc on the park.
We watched a few skate videos that take place at New Bird so that we had an idea what it looked like, here are a few of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6CQB1MMYJk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05uRYpYMtzE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QiMWOK63dM
As an exskater I already knew the style of skate videos and thought that it would be good for some of our Doc to emulate the skate style. We then decided to use multiple camera's to get good c overage and as the camera man I thought this would give us the best chance for a skate vid approach, I wasn't worried about changing the formats because it fits the rough style skater aesthetic.
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