Yeah exactly. I went back and rewatched the Tiago part. It’s a split second the skater is obscured and it’s always a second/third angle of the trick.
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Exactly! and why I mention it every fucking time I watch an edit. STOP!
If the trick is caught and I can tell how gnarly, cool or whatever the spot is, I kinda don’t notice if they have done the zoom thing or I am fine with it.
I can watch Nick Matthews face being zoomed in on all day because the trick is always caught well and I just imagine it’s a bunch of Ai american TV comedians looking stern skating.
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I think the GH take is a bit overkill. Big shoe brand makes slightly sterile, corporate-friendly video - that’s not a particularly spicy take. Tricolor felt that same. It’s what NB do.
I do agree with Haven, though - Nike SB are streaks ahead of the other shoe brands. Hiring people like Will Miles and Johnny Wilson over more ‘professional’ videographers like Jason Hernandez has produced much more interesting content (not that the Chronicle videos were rubbish, by any means).
I feel like GH’s video was provoked by the slightly odd adulation Intervals is receiving. Feel like some of the takes are caught up in the moment and SOTY hype, and not especially critically reflective. For instance, no offence Greg, Joel etc., the Skate Creative podcast’s two episodes on the video were a bit too much for me. It was obvious friends at NB had asked for the podcast to cover the video, which is fine and glad you guys got a holiday to Madrid, but it meant Magee was on his best behaviour and the usual piss taking wasn’t there.
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Yeah Skate Creative coverage stunk of paid promotion and felt very disingenuous. Love that podcast because it’s always felt very UK centric and grass roots; Intervals is the opposite of SC to me
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Felt the same to me. I was expecting Magee to go in on it and at least pull it apart a bit.
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Compare this with any monster or redbull skate video in recent years and they’re worlds apart, even though you see many of the same skaters
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Wow, GH really went in
How can you be THAT sensitive to all those elements, it’s just a skate video?!? It was a great skate video!
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His argument that they were foregrounding the corporate business doesn’t really fly either - Westgate, foy, Tiago are the only names we’ve heard for the last 2 months, 2 of them are in the SOTY conversation, no other team members even in the video, there was a big social push, tours, global premieres etc. He’s making out like they released a lifestyle video
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So fucking done with overexposed VX/DV footage, with the excuse being “Oh, I’m just a filmer man, I don’t do any editing” while serving up whited-out slop which should get dumped on the cutting room floor.
On a side note, I really hate when filmers don’t change the exposure when follow filming from light to dark areas.
Intervals is sick - GH is bitching just for the sake of it.
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Don’t get me started. I’m barely filming skating at the moment, but if I ever encounter light changes, I’ll make sure I know exactly where I need to flip the ND or adjust aperture. These days I’m shooting Blackmagic which makes it really handy for adjusting the ISO in post to smooth out a lot of scenarios like this.
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Nike smashed it with this one. Too dope.
Numeric have made dope short edits too, Tiago 808 etc, just feels like full length always trends towards the blander side of things.
He makes money from ‘talking shit’ and being the (self-appointed) contrarian (lol) of the ‘skate industry’. He’s been boring for a while now in my opinion. Haven’t watched his last few videos for this reason.
Huge shoe brand makes polished/glossy video - who would’ve thunk it?
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I’d also disagree with the ‘nike are winning’ thing too as their interminable hour long montage videos with no titles and ‘everybody with a free pair of Dunks on is entitled to two tricks’ formula doesn’t denote Nike ‘investing in the grassroots’ or whatever. It’s cynical marketing like everything else. That’s all skate videos with a product attached to them are, ultimately at least.
I enjoyed Intervals - have watched it a few times and would actually pay for their shoes if I had to. Nike - no chance. Although those all-white GT blazers (?) look alright.
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Calm down Spielberg.
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GH is starting to believe his own hype I reckon. He started to come across a dick in his skatepark comp vids. Not sure there is enough low hanging fruit in skateboarding to go after (that won’t get him beaten up) for him to keep GH going as a concept. You have to basically stay the same person and have a constrant stream of worthy content. Which both are getting thin.
Live by the YouTube, die by the YouTube.
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Lucky. I do and did yesterday.
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Not watched GH (I think…) since he was being a bellend towards Tom Knox.
LEAVE TOM KNOX ALONE YOU FUCK! 
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Yeah I wasn’t saying hats off to Nike or anything. I just felt with the constraints that you have making a big corporate video they’ve managed to have the most enjoyable to watch output by working with people who know what’s up and maybe allowing things to have a little more of a rough around the edges feel to them. Intervals filming/editing felt like such a step back into Pretty Sweet Ty Evans era
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I’m all for it! Dish out the triggers @ciaran!
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