how would we go about getting, say, each person here [who wants to, of course !] to submit one or two wave’s footage of them on their latest or favourite board they’ve made ?
I guess it would close the forum down posting it here, but is there another way, where say the footage could be copied to a dvd by someone experienced at that kind of stuff, and then we could pay postage and whatever to secure a copy ?
I just mention this having received that very thing [one wave, one board] from one of the crew here, and it got me stoked, and thinking …
Maybe if you already have a LOT of say the Californians from your annual 'Swaylocks Get-Together[s], you may already have a good portion of a mini dvd there ?
I’m thinking …100 people, 1 or 2 good waves each [on one or two different homemade boards]… and maybe a coupla seconds briefly showing the board, and telling of the dimensions.
100 people x c. 5 seconds = 500 seconds...about the concentration span of the computer generation...could be a winner ?!
… anyone up for it ?
I’m sure in our midst we have graphic artists, computer whiz guys, video guys, photographers, musicians…
alas the lacking of true stellar footage to reveal the ultimate ride…
.is one wave enought to reveal the real…you/me…
the pursuit of this revealation diluting/perverting the higher minded -surf ing spirit
for a goof? sure … candid character shots,identity mugshots,photos taken by me mum,on a pony when I was six in front of the Rosencrans residence on Teddy avenue on the shady side of the street… but
the real essay would be an epic film documentary fifteen or twenty hours of film harvested world wide from galacia to the lost maldives filming the production and implementation of this aquaeous maaddness in tangible form…
saw a Ryobi battery powered planer at home d-p0t while you guys were at the super bowl and mind-saw the feral shapping potential outside the box…
…to get the front money to explore the cut loose get the essence film - not of this marketing economy material commercialiearth…carefull chippy me lad, that lid on that box,should it be opened? might it blind the infidel?
…count me in…ambrose…MAKE - UP !..some one took my chair wheres my chair.with my name stenciled on the back,that girl with my water ,wheres my wateer…MY WATER…GLORIA! …
...mmeanwhile back on the aboriginal planet "bring me little water silvie,bring me little water silvie ,every little once in a while'' huddie leadbetteer
One wave per board perhaps…if you have five you really can’t seperate. And if the surf was that good, more footage to use in the ‘final edit’ !!
… Anyone else ?
ben
[for those wanting anonymity , perhaps the computer-clever among us could do someting like this to the footage…
…“re-arrange your face” , so to speak !! [with apologies to a certain french shaper on a certain shaperoom.net website, and following on from "hackeysacky’s " warning regarding ‘evidence’ of …okay, I’ll leave it there for now ! ] …or you could surf with a mask on, like Bruce Lee used to at Kirra [does he STILL do that, I wonder…‘the enforcer’ gig ?!]
Hey chip, where have you found that pic, on the french forum or on the surfermag’s one ?
That pic has been taken yesterday morning in front of my brand new shaperoom.
It’s the first board ever to come out of that place.
The guy on the picture is a friend of mine who wanted me to help him with my short knowledge about shaping boards and he also wanted me to laminate his egg.
Stange to see a picture I took on Swaylock’s.
I keep reading and lurking swaylock’s but don’t feel confident enough to dare and post my tries.
I think this could be a wonderful idea. maybe even expand on it. Include a short shapping/glassing section along with each persons waves, and character shots. I know I for one would love to see the different techniques each person applies. I think it would be really cool to see the garage shaper back to back with someone putting out a few hundred boards a year.
I happen to own a digital film company and while the majority of my bills are paid by shooting corporate videos and TV commercials, I do spend a fair bit of time traveling up and down the west coast shooting surf. I’d love to put something like this together. Maybe charge a small amount for the DVD to cover peoples expenses and also to raise some money for swaylocks. If anyone is interested in helping with this PM me here; or let me know if would be interested in being featured and where you live.
Hey chip, where have you found that pic, on the french forum or on the surfermag’s one ?
That pic has been taken yesterday morning in front of my brand new shaperoom.
It’s the first board ever to come out of that place.
The guy on the picture is a friend of mine who wanted me to help him with my short knowledge about shaping boards and he also wanted me to laminate his egg.
Stange to see a picture I took on Swaylock’s.
I keep reading and lurking swaylock’s but don’t feel confident enough to dare and post my tries.
See you.
Hiya Lob, and WELCOME !!
sorry to use your photo without asking…I can’t login at surfer at all…some glitch… but at least NOW I can get in touch with you here !
PLEASE post that whole series of it being made , as you did at ‘Surfer’ …great to see it from blank to finished !! (I like the shape a lot !!)
How does it go, have you or your friend surfed it yet ?
CAN you video it being ridden ? […how’s the surf in France at the moment ? ]
I’d like to support you in that however I can…pity I’m so far away.
I thought there would have to be at least ONE pro videographer here !
the s.o.s. I definately would like to see filmed, herb’s 5 finners too…anything a bit ‘out of the ordinary’…as well as bonzers [3 and 5 finners], fish, stubbies, hull bottoms, mats. Mals… the list could be vast !
No doubt the list is endless. I think everyone has their favorites, maybe we should do this film about the odd and unusual shapes. I’d really hate to just see westcoast shapers. (alltough there is a ton of us) I think a colaboration from around the world would be truly unique. Hopefully we can get some film from all over. I can’t be the only one on here that can run a video camera. I know of a couple guys on the eastcoast that may help. How bout else where? If you guys can shoot some video I can put it together… well I can bribe my editor to put it together. I’ll give pointers and advice to anyone that wants to submit so that we get good quality footage.
It would be best to mail the footage as to get it via internet means compressing the video small so it can be sent. this loses quality. I’m thinking of people can shoot in miniDV format it is the most universal without loseing a lot of quality and costing major money to shoot. The big problem is getting the two tape versions into one. Europe and Australia use the PAL format where Northamerica uses NTSC. If you guys can get tapes to me I’ll worry about converting them.
Getting it hosted on the net would be great. Might be a bit of a burden for a full film as it is heavy on the bandwidth and then won’t be of the best quality. Perhaps we post some of the highlights or small pieces of it every week.
I think thats a pretty cool idea. I’m a film student in Florida and working on a couple wakeboard films right now. I’d definitly be interested in helping out.
I think as far as frame rates and audio sampling rates we should wait and see what kind of equipment is available in each location. It would be nice if everyone could shoot 24p as it would be the most universal but if those using PAL cameras could shoot regular 25 frames and NTSC shooters could shoot 24p it should blend together fairly nicely.
I think cost might have to be determined once we know who’s all involved but I think swaylock members should get a drastically reduced price. I think I can wrangle some distribution on the picture so we’d have to work all that into the distribution contract.
I think still photos and slide show are a great idea. I’d even take it a step further and include a bonus CDrom disk that could include a step by step shaping how to. Maybe a “design your own board” segment, bloopers, wipe outs etc.
You should collect as much footage as possible, then you will have a pool to edit from. This could be your first surf video. The Swaylocks documentary. Good idea!
Apologies to the Moderators, but I’m bumping this up because I think it could be a goer for this community. Our collective knowledge and experience could help support this site for a very long time.
I just PMed Hydro with some ideas regarding the layout to fill 80 minutes of a DVD.
Come on people, how often do we get a chance like this, don’t you want to be in a surf movie or part of the making of.
