I don’t think I’ve ever posted this on here. This was a music video I helped film last year for the band Esterlyn. I was behind the lens for most of the indoor shots, in the room with the green shelves. It was definitely one of the more fun shoots I’ve been involved with.
I haven’t edited a video in almost a year, so it was fun playing around with this. I’m not a pro at it but I like to pretend. This video in particular was self-filmed in Long Beach, over the span of three days and edited in one. I tend to lean more towards the self-filmed edits because it gives me 100% control over everything. Plus, it lets me take as much time as I want entertaining myself with silly little things…
The first day involved a crack in the sidewalk and a fire hydrant. The second day involved curb cuts, alleyways, slides and riding between drips of rain. The third day involved a flat-tire trying to hop up an unlucky 7-stair. I’ve pulled it once before, slightly intoxicated, but each time after that first, a tube always gets claimed. It’s the stairs in the 360 clip.
The music is 36-24-36, by the Violent Femmes. I was looking for something short and sweet and that song best fit the bill. The lyrics are kinda silly, but so is the entire video. I found the song on a CD a friend gave me from over 5 years ago. It was filled with Violent Femmes albums and pornography…
Fast-forward to the 4:20 mark. I’m the asian kid in the red shirt and Bauer’s my supervisor at Odyssey. He does huge 360s over rails and once picked me up at the Hard Rock Casino… where I was detained for being much too intoxicated to walk back to the hotel. Miles, the guy that edited it / filmed most of it, does sick ET variations. Fudger’s VW goes ridiculously fast and he put up with two car rides worth of me asking questions about turbo. The skatepark attendant is a safety gear nazi. She’ll nag at you about it in between her sessions of learning how to ollie, pad-less and helmet-less, in the skatepark entryway.
I thought I was going to fall doing this… something else happened instead.
Watch the video at the very bottom of this post.
Oh and if you ride, don’t sleep on the Odyssey Sticker Contest.
Description: filmed/edited over-night starting at roughly 12am, circa 2003.
Equipment/Software: Low-end Panasonic MiniDV, Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5.
Music: Timothy Lynn by Joel Loftus.
I was looking through old tapes and found this edit. It’s a personal story about trial and error. If you look close, you’ll notice my jeans get progressively worse through-out the video. There are more video edits after the more link.
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