lords of dogtown super 8

[Justin Lovell]

anyone watched this yet?

they're shooting witha nizo at the end in the credits.

they show some old footage of the original skaters, but i think it may have been some old 16mm footage, not sure though.

anyone else know about any of the stuff they showed?


great film by the way. but kind of an abrupt ending. didn't have the same closure as the documentary.

jusetan

[T-Scan]

I'd like to know what the film itself was shot on. only saw previews but it looks pretty saturated and a little contrasty, maybe they used 5285 100D?

[danpuddick]

you should get a look at the documentry feature - Dog Town and the Z boys - that has loads of what must be 8mm footage if you can put up with original members bolwing smoke up their own arses! Great soundtrack too.

[John_Pytlak]

Here's an article about the production:

http://www.cameraguild.com/index.html?m ... op.main_hp

Davis decided to record images on Kodak Vision 500T 5279 film, one of the older 500-speed emulsions, because it renders more texture than the new generation of negatives. "Thinking ahead to the digital intermediate, I knew it was hard to introduce analog texture--grain," he says. "Something I learned on Thirteen." In some scenes, he had the lab push the process by one or two stops to amplify grain. Sometimes, while shooting in bright outdoor swimming pools, he opted to use the Kodak Vision 200T 5274 film, but his preference was to work with a single emulsion. "For me it was about where the exposure of the shadow was placed," Davis recalls. "Many times, lights would be in the way, so a method to deal with natural light had to be developed. Once I placed the shadow, I let the rest go as part of the look, which in the DI resulted in crushed blacks and pushed whit

[discs of tron]

there is some really nice contemporary super8 skate footage on this:
http://stores.musictoday.com/store/prod ... 444&sfid=2

the same guys did a few others i haven't seen yet. actually plexifilm has several titles with beautiful super8. they're the distributors for jem cohen's "benjamin smoke" which has some really stunning footage, tons of s8.

[onsuper8]

Super 8 is still very much the old skool media of choice from skaters. I've noticed traffic to http://www.onsuper8.org from the skater fraternity debating DV vs. Super 8!