A recommendation from Kelly: radical surfing

By Michael Becker | Published: May 28, 2009

From Kelly:

This video excerpt shows a great mix of action and interview edits. Note the way the interviews are filmed: clean lighting but radical cropping and framing of the faces. This is also one of the first videos to use the “3d effect”. Also note the use of sound; just a low, pulsing tone layered under water sounds and interview audio. The filmmaker is Stacy Peralta who started out making skateboard films and has moved on to feature length documentaries. His film Dogtown and Zboys is, in my opinion, one of the best blends of still photography and motion picture I’ve ever seen.


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2 Comments

  1. becker
    Posted May 28, 2009 at 3:54 pm | Permalink

    Not only is the video visu­ally com­pelling, but it’s sub­ject mat­ter is great too. It’s one of those “experts in awe of some­thing they’ve never seen before” sto­ries that I think peo­ple find fascinating.

  2. Melynda
    Posted May 28, 2009 at 4:24 pm | Permalink

    That 3-D effect is pretty cool; a lit­tle flashy, but cool. I also like the way the inter­views are cropped. Another thing that came to mind is that you have to pick your inter­view sub­ject care­fully. Sure, there are some peo­ple that are manda­tory for a given story, but the enthu­si­as­tic “char­ac­ters” can really make a piece.

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