This is a video I watched on Youtube. The opening of the video gives the viewer a glance into the skateboarder’s life. The footage possesses a great style and energy in vintage quality that was typical of the 90s film tape cameras. I found out after some research that the film is called ‘The Skateboard Kid’ made in 1993. It was filmed on a very low budget which would have contributed to this vintage look.
The music really encapsulates the attitude of the skateboarders and even more so of the time. By shooting underneath and intimately interacting with where the skateboard is in motion, the video exhibits the carefree attitudes of them by keeping low and smooth with each shot. I really like how the slow motion footage was cut into the music video by using only small snippets with normal speed footage.
There is constant movement in this video at all times, whether it is the camera following the skateboarders along the pavement, along side them as they swerve in and out of danger, or track them from the side as they make their way through an old car impound.
Because it was filmed in the 90s but with modern music there is a ‘hark back quality’ to the video that the music suggests to the images; a kind of melancholy energy that you would only otherwise get from reminiscing over an old photo album of your child hood.
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