Hey everyone. This is something that has been floating in my head all summer, so here's what it's all about. I essentially want to start focus on not just making edits of my friends and I in the immediate vicinity of with who and where we ride, but more on the community of skiboarding. This means backcountry powder riding becoming a focus just as much as terrain parks and such. I look at these production companies in the ski world like Nimbus, Poor Boyz, etc... and like the concept. I would like to, at the end of this coming season, put together a video on a much larger scale and involvement then what has been done thus far. I in no way am putting myself on a level above anyone in this respect, I just would like to try and get a great representation about what we're all about at all ends of the spectrum in an artistic light. Before I can get into it, let me throw you a little bit of my background so that you know I am not just a hack with a GoPro talking up something that will never see light.
Last year was my first year in the sport and a made a few videos just kind of gradually getting an understanding of the difference between was I was used to, making high-production skate videos in the '90s compared to ski and skiboard videos in our modern day. Some of you enjoyed them and some didn't. I myself have issues looking back and have an entirely new game plan. Before I stepped into the world of teaching I was doing mass media work, video and audio production. In the 90s while skating I produced several full-length skate films as well as had my hands in some filming and production of others. This was the pre-digital era so everything was done with huge SVHS rigs. I worked with the first digital setups when AVID and Premiere were released in the later part of the decade. Most of my 2000s media time was spent working in audio production, both in front of and behind the mixing board/production role. More recently to adjust to styles and approaches I spent all of this past summer working on recapturing that and studying a large variety of different ski and skiboard edits and videos made over the past decade, but mostly over the past two years. Within that time period I skated and filmed with Kirk Thompson, Matt Hein, Branden Harder, Paul Orr, and Chris Smith. I was also involved in arranging both trips to Liberty where we looked at not only the tricks but behind the camera as well, changing approaches.
I have spent a lot of time talking to Greco, Matt Hein, Kirk Thompson, Art Jennings, Ty Bereskie, Mark Carraro, Tim Miller, and Hershell Nunez about this and I really have a focus. What I would like to do is extend an offer for any serious committed riders, be it terrain, backcountry, groomers, or just smiley daytrippers. If you have, and this is an important part, an HD camera, both still and video, and would like to contribute footage to this venture, please let me know. For those who feel really committed to film and have a lot of great ideas we are looking for a few more creative minds to join Fourdown Productions. At this point it is myself, Dave Bloom, and Matt Hein, who will working together from this point on with videos. But, if you feel you have a lot of great ideas floating around, some storyboarded ideas, or just a flare for creativity, please contact me on here so that we can discuss this further.
In my eyes this production gives two important jump-off point for the future of our sport. First, it will be capturing all riders globally and document where we have come so far, including interviews and actual riding. Second, it is a chance to expose the sport in a new light, to a new generation, setting the bar higher. I may be new, but from skating I remember seeing how and where the sport started. A short pair of Skywalkers, some cheap plastic Groove bindings, and an old pair of skiboots strapped on a young rollerblader looking to skate on snow seems so far away, but in some ways the sport has come full circle just as rollerblading itself has come. I hope I can get all of your support. This is for everyone.
Last year was my first year in the sport and a made a few videos just kind of gradually getting an understanding of the difference between was I was used to, making high-production skate videos in the '90s compared to ski and skiboard videos in our modern day. Some of you enjoyed them and some didn't. I myself have issues looking back and have an entirely new game plan. Before I stepped into the world of teaching I was doing mass media work, video and audio production. In the 90s while skating I produced several full-length skate films as well as had my hands in some filming and production of others. This was the pre-digital era so everything was done with huge SVHS rigs. I worked with the first digital setups when AVID and Premiere were released in the later part of the decade. Most of my 2000s media time was spent working in audio production, both in front of and behind the mixing board/production role. More recently to adjust to styles and approaches I spent all of this past summer working on recapturing that and studying a large variety of different ski and skiboard edits and videos made over the past decade, but mostly over the past two years. Within that time period I skated and filmed with Kirk Thompson, Matt Hein, Branden Harder, Paul Orr, and Chris Smith. I was also involved in arranging both trips to Liberty where we looked at not only the tricks but behind the camera as well, changing approaches.
I have spent a lot of time talking to Greco, Matt Hein, Kirk Thompson, Art Jennings, Ty Bereskie, Mark Carraro, Tim Miller, and Hershell Nunez about this and I really have a focus. What I would like to do is extend an offer for any serious committed riders, be it terrain, backcountry, groomers, or just smiley daytrippers. If you have, and this is an important part, an HD camera, both still and video, and would like to contribute footage to this venture, please let me know. For those who feel really committed to film and have a lot of great ideas we are looking for a few more creative minds to join Fourdown Productions. At this point it is myself, Dave Bloom, and Matt Hein, who will working together from this point on with videos. But, if you feel you have a lot of great ideas floating around, some storyboarded ideas, or just a flare for creativity, please contact me on here so that we can discuss this further.
In my eyes this production gives two important jump-off point for the future of our sport. First, it will be capturing all riders globally and document where we have come so far, including interviews and actual riding. Second, it is a chance to expose the sport in a new light, to a new generation, setting the bar higher. I may be new, but from skating I remember seeing how and where the sport started. A short pair of Skywalkers, some cheap plastic Groove bindings, and an old pair of skiboots strapped on a young rollerblader looking to skate on snow seems so far away, but in some ways the sport has come full circle just as rollerblading itself has come. I hope I can get all of your support. This is for everyone.
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