{"id":120099,"date":"2019-12-04T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=120099"},"modified":"2019-12-02T15:04:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T21:04:48","slug":"skate-videography-unsung-hero-cinema-verite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/skate-videography-unsung-hero-cinema-verite\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Skate Videography: The Unsung Hero of Cin\u00e9ma V\u00e9rit\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s dive into the history of the skate video and how skateboarding has influenced the videography and filmmaking landscape.<\/h2>\n

I remember the first skate video I ever watched. I was ten \u2014 a short, slightly chubby little kid who wore chunky Etnies skate shoes, a puka shell necklace, an ill-fitting Independent Trucks T-shirt, and I had just received my first skateboard that Christmas. A friend and I had just got a ride from his mom to the local skate shop, Soundwaves, and he bought the DVD for Geoff Rowley<\/a>‘s “Sorry” video from his sponsor company, Flip. We brought it home and popped it in the DVD player for his giant CRT TV. I remember just being completely enamored with the visuals, the insane tricks Geoff was pulling off, the kickass music, and the dingy aesthetic from a VHS camcorder recording on a fisheye lens. Even though I couldn’t even pull off an ollie at the time, that video sparked my dreams of one day being sponsored, so I could be like my heroes \u2014 Tony Hawk<\/a>, Rodney Mullen<\/a>, Bob Burnquist<\/a> \u2014 just to name a few. It’s a story most kids who grew up in the ’90s through early 2000s are quite familiar with.<\/p>\n

You know, I never got sponsored, and by the end of my short skateboarding career, I could barely even “manual” for more than two seconds. It happens when you are an awkwardly shaped preteen that decides he might be better at sports that don’t require so much balance and agility. But, what did stick around was my love for the skate video.<\/p>\n

Videography and skateboarding have gone hand-in-hand since the advent of strapping four wheels to a board.<\/span> Skate videos are what influenced a lot of the culture of the mid-90s to the early 2000s \u2014 the fashion, the anti-establishment feeling they conveyed, and especially the style of filming they used. Skate culture was in the zeitgeist, with a lot of the popular bands at the time (Blink-182 and Sum 41) drawing a lot of their inspiration from the aesthetic, and popular filmmakers emulating the style in their creative projects.<\/p>\n

So today, we’re going to dive into the history of the skate video, what constitutes the style of a skate video, and how pervasive it is in filmmaking and videography, to this day.<\/p>\n

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The History of the Skate Video<\/h3>\n