Interview with Jeremy Elkin about his upcoming video. Premiering very soon..
1) This is a lot shorter than your average skate vid.
You over the
epic 40
minute videos? Why?
I didn't set out to make this film, I just filmed everyday
and molded my clips all together. I wanted to make
something that was different than the rest of the videos
that come out on the internet
every week. I find that it's as if videos being made
these days go by an instruction pamphlet on how to
make a skate movie. I'm pretty sure it requires
random HD clips scattered throughout the film,
46 additional filmers (using 8 types of camera setups)
need to be involved in the project and there
needs to be at least 50 ramped slow motion clips. I
kept this film short, fast and most importantly-
watchable before you
go skateboarding. Lo-Def is by no means epic, it
just makes you want
to go skate. There's no fancy effects or 50 second
intros for the
parts. In fact, there's no intros really. It's
underground east coast
skateboarding. There's hardly any "played out"
spots, no big names and
definitely no tall tees.
2) How's being one of the few remaining skate
filmmakers still
operating in
Canada?
Yeah there's not that many anymore. Thanks
YouTube! Skaters have no
idea what's going on and they're doing it to
themselves. In a few
years, the only people making skate videos
will be kids making videos
for their YouTube accounts and big companies
to promote their brands.
The independent filmmaker is being killed, myself
included. I
literally just spent the past year and a half of
my life making a free
video. I love being broke, it's so fun.
3) What's your next project?
Well, I made this one cause I felt like it was
the perfect
timing
because everything was in place to make it.
I really gave my all for
this one. Unless a company hires me to make a
film for them, I can't
see myself putting out another one like "Lo-Def"
out for a long time.
There's absolutely no motivation to film 18 hours
a day and be this
broke, I'd rather work a bit, travel and be
skateboarding the rest of
the time- without having to carry a camera bag.
4) The scene in quebec has always been super
strong, if not a little
isolated from the rest of the country. Do you
think the video will
help get
some of these insane PQ riders the respect they
deserve outside the
belle
province?
Maybe, but I feel as though no one cares about
videos
anymore, unless
they've got big names in them. Skaters strive
for magazines, not
films. Shops don't buy videos anymore because
no one wants to spend
thirty bucks at a shop, when you can get it for
free sitting at home.
We put a lot of time in this film though. It
gives a really accurate
glimpse of Montréal and the current scene here
that's
changed so much
over the last couple years. Hugo [Balek] is good.
Bob [Lasalle] kills
it harder than most and is really underrated.
Just watching Bob
powerslide down a hill is more enjoyable to
watch than most things you
see in videos, we tried to show that in his part.
Seb [Labbé] is
blowing up. He's the next one to come out of
the province for sure.
Good on a board. He's always motivated and super
happy. I've known him
for about four years now and I've yet to see
him stressed.
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