Slam Skateboarding

NOTES OF A FILMMAKER

My journey into filmmaking began 15 years ago when my wonderful parents bought me a Panasonic 3-Chip video camcorder. From there, I got really into making skate edits and uploading them to file sharing sites. For context, this was an era when DVDs were all the rage and even the concept of YouTube would have been mind-blowing.

I bought my first VX a few years later from a disgruntled wedding videographer. It was a thing of beauty and, accompanied with a big Century fisheye lens, the footage turned to gold. Everyone around me was getting really good and I really enjoyed filming, editing

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