The video of "us" and "I" Internet has changed everything. In our lives and our passions. This is partly the global network has enabled longskate reborn in the late 90s and early this century. Its practitioners have found a great tool to build the modern landscape of the discipline. In particular, the videos on the web dedicated to longskate have formed one of the most powerful media to talk about this sport ... And its players. Somewhere between the affirmation and community staging of egos, the messages of these short films explain in different ways their visions of the scene longskate.
Remember the beginning? You learn strange skateboard. The passion grew, as did the desire to progress. But no longskateur in your city to show you the path. To the question "c koman kon slide", you casually drop it on a forum, you are sent (in addition to the strings for your deplorable spelling) to the classic videos
. You begin to dissect the freeze frames of these videos. And try to reproduce it only on the bitumen. Thanks in part to this that you come today to make a proper transition into your 360 - do not you?. Unexpected importance of these small films, originally designed to share a moment of ride and not necessarily to each other. And then there are
trick tips. With these tutorials, the sharing is intentional, mutual support and sharing knowledge is the very purpose of the video. Your ride has been enriched with videos. Even if you do not experience in your village lost longskateurs Limousin (pardon the redundancy). When you feel desperately alone.
On this point of solitude sport longskate like the discovery of sex as a teenager (that sentence could be pronounced by the famous Brigadier pornoblogueur
) . We quickly feel the need to share the pleasure of great rides with at least one partner rather than practicing alone in his corner. This is because the longskate obviously perceives as a game to many. And the video has longskate include a collective dimension in the representation of the sport. Be honest: what is the video that you did most trépigner at your computer, increasing your frustration due to lack of ride and home triggering a crisis of lack? Only was it not a video freeride, or at least one session between friends? Beyond a spotlight or a performance, enthusiasm is what we practice in groups. In terms of spectacle, watching the clip a single rider, even on a very good and attractive spot,
not worth tracking a bunch and what it offers: games between riders. The combined red drift in the wrong pin does not hit the racer who goes grip, this is the kind of suspense (and interest) that may generate the viewing of a video of freeride. For the viewer, the desire to ride is further enhanced by many do.
Storytelling Especially fans that filmmakers like to leave a large place in their films anything that makes the life of the group outside the ride.
Exhibition buttocks (a narrative full part in the video longskate, judging by its recurrence), phrases and cults mocking jokes, slices of life are legion. The
Videos Punkaroulettes , reports hikes in Paris, are a good example. The reason for these scenes
lifestyle is one thing, almost paradoxical to videos longskate: Images of ride is good, but in moderation. "
Yvon Labarthe was first to understand that with all the videos that came out and were too stuffed to ride, people would quickly zap those looked like. He had the originality, story ", says Cyril Harnay, President Longskate of Bordeaux Club, an association at the forefront of the dynamic videographer.
Originality? One of the best recent examples is in my opinion the 2009 Tour
Fritz, a parody of reality that reflects what the atmosphere of a roadtrip. Further east, a video as
The secret of wrinkle going one step forward in terms of story and screenwriting. Note also a different approach, taken by director Gilles Balézeaux
of films Oule . Not necessarily for an informed public, videos shot in the Hautes-Alpes squat regularly the first page of Dailymotion. These works aesthetic doing important work in promoting sport to the general public. And style is affected: the voice theatrics, big technical means (road closures for filming), almost Christlike sublimation of practice ... It seems almost Thierry Donard, founder of
Nights Surf . Different forms of narratives, hatches a sacred range of genres. Documentary Striptease way to parody, through the fiction and the show at the Robert Hossein. Filming
what makes the environment of the tribe of riders to add the unexpected to create an interest, to stage a story. The story is written based on some myths, like the very famous "beer-mountain-summer barbecue-nice grandmas."
What does it very well Yvon Labarthe . And seeing the history of those riders who make their lives a show attractive, it looks really want to go in a group of longskateurs.
promote its identity One group, yes, but not any. There is a question of correspondence between the expectations you have from the longboard crew and those of you watching the video. Not necessarily go into a long and boring semantic analysis, these images affirm the identity of the collective, and allows crews to differentiate themselves from each other. You know as well as
Supaflex was not a bristling crew combinations of skin-prick-competitive inordinate ambitions, the Rock4Crew
are not primarily carvers, and the Pony Club (Random) has at most high
ideology of poor technical assumed. Post a video of himself and his buddies is not insignificant in longskate symbolically. This offer meaning to the viewer a vision of longskate and practice. The image is a discourse on self and his tribe.
course, not everything is on the order unconscious in a symbolic dimension of this discourse and identity. The communication of an association of longskate and projects also passes here. The Bordeaux
Longskate Club loves creating a buzz. In two years, fellows Bordeaux we have proposed UFO-longskato film with
Longskate War then
Angel this year. Through hard work and meticulous Odix, Gironde Association has made these two works of aesthetic works in the service of
Peyragudes Deluxe Cup. But Komakino, Cyril Harnay by marital status and Chair of the BLC function does not consider that these are promotional films for a event. "
There's no real strategy except the one to envy ," he says. The promotion of the association, then? "
It is not a logic of recruitment .
According to him, will on the basis of these two films is simply to present the Peyragudes Deluxe Cup and projects of LBC. The newest Angel is exemplary in this regard. Through the bloody route of this board who murders the old band, emerges the new profile of the competition pyrénnéenne. "The
Peyragudes Deluxe Cup is dead, for sure, I re-organize it. It meant it was dead but without doing something sad. Our idea was a film that mixes the idea with the new project for the BLC Deluxe, namely that launches the junior class who are for riders aged 14 to 18 "Cyril book by way of textual analysis. Hence this story to the influences of Z series, which speaks watermark erasing old riders in favor of an arrival in power of youth.
A group of people or ...? Associations and crews are taking advantage of videos to showcase their riders. It may be the whole group, but also individuals. As such, the portrait is a genre in itself. Focused on a longskateur, and performance, this format is both codified and very very free. Like the last sentence of Liberation, he intended to present a rider and his vision of longskate, by talking to "off" images wrinkle. There are articulate discourse on the sport. Thus the ideas become multiple bedrooms and reflect the personality of the rider ... And / or the director's perception of his personality. We return here to this famous red thread of history! This gives various things, sometimes completely offset
JibusProd as proposed, or as
almost journalistic knows how Odix.
Assos, crews ... And teams, whether to complete the list of groups of riders. Marks, making their sponsored riders relay their message, taking on board the use of video. Without necessarily changing the format or style. The French brand
Blackkross rest on such things rather classic, worthy of a session between friends. Not too much pounding commercial message, if any. She even sometimes
forces with activists from another brand ! Just to say that the longboard is a great community of different families. Typically, the marks (it is their interest) love to show their team as a bunch of buddies, or at least as a cohesive group, united under one banner. Orange in Nowave, which is in the classic video
together to present the riders.
If the videos do not leave marks too the usual speech, but also they are made by people who produce other side. Yvon Labarthe has worked well to make communication with SC8
videos whose style resembles ... Labarthe. That is to say the ride is committed, clean, powerful (and sticking with the brand image). No reason to change style when you're a videographers longskate of the most popular.
short, marks the side, nothing new. We are still far from the star system individually produced videos of surfwear brands, for example. Loaded
and foal glorified
Adam Colton and others fail to ankle videos kellyslaterocentrées of Quiksilver. Nor that mickfanningocentrées productions at Rip Curl. Little risk that this excess feature "major" sports comes into force in longboarding. Surely a matter of marketing and visibility issue of discipline. And possibly also humility.
Riders ready ... Ego! But make no mistake. The video speaks longskate certainly collective, cohesive group, but does not like to parade clips
in North Korea. Asso, crew, team, nothing but a collection of egos. The message revolves around some individual performance, as will be discerned by paying attention to productions like those of Gilles Balézeaux. Individualistic vision without being egocentric. Unlike some uses of
paw. The eccentricity of the lens makes it possible to get unusual angles. A distinction is often the only riders to orient themselves. Interesting choice. Included in a montage of shots punctuated in the middle fixed, embedded in various moods and visions (as the bias of the director), there is a significant new method in how to tell a story. But the clip only nine minutes of a rider who shoots with his paw on one spot at Schuss, gives quickly want to zap. Although show delivery in the background other chutes, the fact that the image does revolves only around the rider-filmmaker delivers a certain conception of wrinkle. Here, c is the individual performance shall prevail. And it inspires metaphors on the double meaning of the word paw.
The video is an ode longskate refers to the collective but still with the ego. Longskate launch a video on the Internet is necessarily refer to the staging itself
evoked as the keeper of this blog a few days ago . The goal is to exist altogether. Despite the frantic videographer activism which it participates, the chairman of BLC remains lucid on this point. "
representation of the scene is very longskate footprint of Internet activity. The videos like the forum, it gives an aura that is beyond what we really are and our practice, it shows us that bigger we are. When you put three videos on Riderz, you exist , "he notes.
A tool for the collective
Create
its small branch almost semi-pro video longskate would have a legitimacy on the longboard scene. But not necessarily legitimacy only virtual. In some cases, such as Jibus, it comes with great field presence. results in competition (downhill like videos), organization of events associated with its Deval Loire, the Touraine is active. L other interesting example is that of
Guimba Productions. The web agency is reporting on some small events. Need to build legitimacy the stage for his longskate autoentreprenor? A strange idea when you know the identity of the latter. It is indeed Julien Yamba, president of the NDA! The Vendee
follows his videos a very personal ... And very collective. His role as "
spokesman our sport" is central to its concerns videographers. Objective: To publicize our sport, and thus addressing the general public with these videos. Hence the use of a style, format and visual techniques rather close to the expertise of professionals in the image, as in
reporting of Mascaride . This gives the impression Julien adjusts the calibration of the subjects of JT to achieve the target of the neophytes. A target he claims. "
In all that I saw movies, the images were not what I thought to promote the sport ," says communications expert. "
example, Yvon is very beautiful video, it's a great filmmaker, but I think that level ... dissemination," he temporized. While Julian tries to make out of conventional channels webcasting to try to hit as many. With a speech that echoed his position. "
I try to show that we are not fools: the security side, protections, straw bales, etc.. It is very educational indeed. That's how I see the development. We can develop the sport through the pedagogy, "he argues. The method is laudable and altruistic, if it is considered that development of sport as a benefit to its practitioners.
The video, if virtual by its support, then touch with reality. longskateurs have the appropriate tool to get into this scene ... And another scene animate, alive, what the longboard. "
I argue we are still a community, and that, it also passes Videos by , "argues Cyril. For sure, the videos are a partial and biased longboard. But there is the fact that a large majority of riders trying them, and they all delivered a multitude of different messages. The overall vision then realized a reality. longboard scene is plural, and both united in its desire to be seen and recognized.
NB: thank you for allowing me to Pappy this space of expression that I took at leisure. Long live the blog!
