Lakai Fully Flared
Oh man, I hadn’t watched a skate video for close to a year when I stumbled across this teaser online last night.
I had to get the movie, and it’s just amazing. Jaw-dropping skating, gorgeous cinematography, all backed by a great soundtrack — one of the best all-around skate videos I’ve ever seen. Highly recommended.
January 29th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Wow, looks like footage from our last epic skate night before you left. Of course, their epic skateboarding night didn’t end with a money shot. Thanks again!
January 29th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Funny you use “epic” to describe three hours of the biggest stalemate game of SKATE ever.
January 29th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Haha… “Okay, let’s try kickflip again… FUCK!”
January 30th, 2008 at 9:43 am
pretty rad looking video. I’d like to learn how they did those speical effects
January 30th, 2008 at 10:09 am
The put explosions in stuff and blew it up. Special.
Filmed it at high speed. Effect.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
i’m willing to bet that those “explosions” weren’t shot live, but rather done in post smart ass
January 30th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Nope, live.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Yeah, the final shot used actual napalm. Dangerous stuff, skate videos these days.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Here’s the interview explaining it all.
http://www.skateperception.com/viewspot/19/
Just because so much stuff is done “post” these days doesn’t mean that EVERYTHING is.
Go back to film school.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
http://sk8uk.co.uk/features/lakai-fully-flared
effects were created by Spike Jonze
January 30th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Spike Jonze does lots of stuff with Girl skateboards (and affiliates).
January 30th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
i suppose the “invisible” skate board video a few years back was real too?
was created in post production by Spike Jonze as well
January 30th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
yes he does, and he’s a fuckin bad ass
January 30th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
some of the stuff is live action, but a lot of it is done post production. I really want to see the rest of this video. The intro is fucking awesome
January 30th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
There are other effects in the video BESIDES the explosions, dude. Plus “effects” doesn’t mean “fake.” It can also mean “loading up a mock staircase with napalm and fucking asploding it.”
Go back to film school.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
hahaha wow. The “effects” i was referring to (the ones I saw) were definitley not all “live action effects” I’m saying that some of the “effects” were done in post production. Being an editor, who graduated from “film school” and HAS a job, I was stoked on this and immediatley tried to figure out how to do it.
I know what effects are…dick.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Yeah, I think the special effects they talk about from Spike Jonze aren’t in the opening. Aside from maybe accenting that last NAPALM explosion.
The invisible skateboards were real, just a green skateboard and green ramps. The only “post” was a green key. Not a whole lot of “post” to do that. Hell you could shoot that live by running the feed through a simple switch board with a chroma built in.
What did they teach you in that school you went to, that everything done in a movie that isn’t a person is created “post.”
In other news “POST”
January 30th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Editor…..hahahahaha.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Relax man, we’re just fucking with you. We’re all friends here, right? I mean, except Jesse and Stevens. I can’t stand those guys. But aside from them, we’re all friends here, right?
January 30th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Ugh, god no, not with people that HAVE jobs.
January 30th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Okay, correction: I was just fucking with you. Shawn is a professional heckler. We know you’re a film school graduate… that was the joke.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Heckling people and pissing them off across state line since May 2005.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
You know…watching it again…I think the music was done post. It just…matches up so well with the footage. Not having a job or ever paying for the privilege of film school knowledge, I just can’t figure out how they did that.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Oh wait, I just figured it out…
POST
January 30th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
The film was also shot on black and white cameras. Color was all done in post. Also, none of these guys are skateboarders.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Actually all the skateboarders are 43 year old women on dialysis.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
No, the women were in their mid 20s and quite healthy. That’s the magic of post.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
well was going to comment on Bill’s comment #19.
it does seem that we are all “friends” here doesn’t it? When everytime I say anything, I’m belittled and made to feel stupid. It’s not a fucking pissing contest Shawn, I just made a comment on the fucking video. So fuck off…you know way more than anything I could ever! I just hope someday I will be like you Shawn. The ALL knowing Shawn. Shawn is so smart, and Shawn knows everything. Fuck! Why can’t we all be like Shawn?
January 30th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
I know, why not?
January 30th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
*awkward*