Film School Application Skateboarding Montage

even though it does look good and it sometime pleasing to the eye, a lot of schools reject people's submissions if they are skate videos. i guess there are a lot of skaters applying to film school. this might not even be the case and if it isn't, im sure they will be pleased with your camera work and editing

did you shoot the slowmo at 60i?
 
I'd like it to be more than the average skate video. I'm thinking about adding some voiceover at the beginning and end would make it more interesting, but I don't know what to say.
All the slowmo's 30p slowed down to 80%.
 
film schools don't look for students who can tell a story or cut together a video... they wanna teach those who have the least experience
 
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Thanks Guys

Thanks Guys

I fixed a couple minor things that were bugging me, and threw in a voiceover. Think that'll help?

Thanks.
 
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That voice over was perfect in my opinion. It reminded me of Edward Furlongs voice over in American history X. It really did add to it, and although some shots seem alittle overexposed, it doesn't matter, the whole things flows great and the song was good too. Who was the artist?

Again, great job man!

-Ben
 
Good camera, and good editing. The voiceovers had good thoughts, but it was a bit too forced sounding to me. I could tell you were trying hard for the 'indifferent passive' style that has become so popular recently.

The one thing you could have some fun improving on is storytelling. All the pretty shots in the world won't help you if can't make them flow together into a story. Try making a skateboarder narrative film rather than editing together random shots of your friends.

Don't get me wrong though, I liked the video!
 
Thanks a lot guys, I appreciate the comments.

For the voice-over, I think in the back of my mind I was trying to imitate the voiceover of the one of the kids at the very end of The Virgin Suicides.
The Song's "Dayvan Coyboy" by Boards of Canada.
 
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Really good stuff. Music, and flow of the video as a whole was really good, and the voice-over did work well.

I was recently admitted to a really good film school in the US, and I can tell you this: as visually appealing as any video you make might be, they look for content and originality over any aspect of medium that is reviewed.

The skate video was good, and a nice touch to add voice over, but it's nothing that we haven't seen already. I'd say, try incorporating some narrative with skating. Not just "the life of a skater" but add a real back story to these kids, and approach it from a totally different angle, and I can almost guarantee that they will look at it very highly.
 
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