Longboard video competition

Ok so the idea of a longboarding video competition had been tossed around and after some thought i think its time to get this happening. All u shredders out there this is your chance to show us all what you got. Bust out your cameras and steeze it up. Right here on ASRA we will hold the first Australian longboarding video competition, you will all have two months to shoot and cut up some of your sickest footage into a video no more than 3mins long and battle it out for the big prize! (prizes yet to be advised, but hey who gives a f*ck what you get really.... but either way it will be a sick prize - i will personally throw in a set of fresh wheels)

Lets see what the aussie riders out there have got, and lets get the creative juices flowing.
All you have to do is upload a video onto the ASRA website and post up a link right here, and on December the 9th we will unveil the winner. We will choose 3 finalists to take 1st 2nd and 3rd, and these 3 videos will all be featured on the Skatehorde.com website.

What we will be looking for:
- Originality
- Steeze
- Good cinematography (camera work)
- Some form of story-line or flow to the video
- Editing
- Sound tracks
- Good use of colours in images
- Interesting camera angles
- All around gnar-ness

Videos can be shot of whatever you want as long as it has to do with longboarding. You can shoot a hectic downhill video, you can put on your red shoes and dance the blues away or you can style it up in your favourite urban environment, anyway you wanna do it get 'er done, but make it look sick!
Get creative with the cameras and film something new, try skating in different areas that you normally wouldn't skate and capture the moment, spread the stoke by trying to capture the feeling you get from longboarding.
All videos must be new and original, videos that have already been uploaded on this site before today (October 11 2009) will not be counted, give the people something they have never seen before so we dont get this competition flooded with old videos we have seen 1000 times before!

If you have any questions feel free to ask. Lets get it happening! If anyone wants to help out by donating prizes that would be wicked. Hopefully we can get this competition running as an annual or monthly thing, so keep those videos happening. Remember if you are a finalist your video will be featured on the Skatehorde.com website. This is a great chance to not only get your steezy skating skills noticed but to really develop your video filming/editing skills!

REMEMBER THIS IS NOT A COMPETITION TO SEE WHO IS THE BEST SKATER, THIS IS A COMPETITION TO SEE WHO CAN CREATE THE BEST VIDEO OF LONGBOARDING.

For a little more info on camera and editing equipment check out http://www.loadedboards.com/adam2/blog/index.php?2009/09/21/265-vid...

First Entry by Dan MacTaggart

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2nd Entry by Myles Borchardt

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3rd Entry by Dani

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4th entry by Luke Whitmore

Canberra Downhill video comp entry/sound revamped from luke whitmore on Vimeo.

Exactly the same as the original video except I have fixed the audio during the interview scenes and made them louder. It is an entry into Jacko's video comp on ASRA and also a teaser/trailer for a longer doco that I am doing at the moment. A representation of how Australian riders are shredding the gnar.

5th entry by Nick Frayne

6th Entry by Toby

Entry 7 Aaron Pratt

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Entry 8 Aaron Prat

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jacko on October 13, 2009 at 23:38

u put a copy-write on it... if people copy it you will know. if you made it first and have proof that you made it first its yours. If you wanna go grand scale and make this into a multi-million dollar feature i would suggest talking to a few law-knowledge gentlemen and find out all the info on that sort of thing, but if your just gonna make a quick skate flick im sure if people copied it they would be kind of shunned from any social activities and just generally disliked...
so in other words i doubt someone will copy ur shit, and if they do they are pricks

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Fitz on October 13, 2009 at 23:45

Skateboard film piracy would get the royal billycart send-off.
Not welcomed back.

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Permalink Reply by Aych on October 13, 2009 at 23:48

aaaaaaand action, game on

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Dani on October 14, 2009 at 22:28

HAHAHA Billy carts! I forgot about them!

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jacko on October 19, 2009 at 21:46

so i take it no one wants a free set of wheels yet? better get em in quick!

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Permalink Reply by Joe on October 19, 2009 at 21:50

So when is the actual cut off Jacko?

Jacko said:

so i take it no one wants a free set of wheels yet? better get em in quick!

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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jacko on October 19, 2009 at 22:01

it will be drawn on december 9 so i guess anything that has been submitted until that date will be counted... so far we have 0 videos, if you submit a video and no one else does, then you get a set of wheels... i wouldn't really like it if that happened but hey i guess thats how it is

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Permalink Reply by Joe on October 19, 2009 at 22:14

Ok sounds good, yeah I hope there is some decent videos put up before the end.

Jacko said:

it will be drawn on december 9 so i guess anything that has been submitted until that date will be counted... so far we have 0 videos, if you submit a video and no one else does, then you get a set of wheels... i wouldn't really like it if that happened but hey i guess thats how it is

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Permalink Reply by Arran Pratt on October 19, 2009 at 22:47

This is a great idea to promote longboard skating and get the creative vibes happening...and reckon there will be more than a few entries before the cut off date..i'm havin' a crack...stay tuned