Today was a disaster. Went to my friend’s place with the intention of getting a lot of filming done. Started filming him skating down the street but realised that it’s really difficult to film someone who is skating when you don’t have a skateboard to use and therefore, cannot follow them at the same pace. The camera work also looks really shaky because I had to walk by him. This could be an interesting effect for some parts of my filming but the footage I have doesn’t look great with this film style.

When we left to head to my house via bus, we were also gifted with lovely Myki fines so were pretty annoyed about that, definitely altered the mood. When we got to my house we were going to film more and head to the skatepark, but the skateboards we had weren’t suitable for bowls and ramps. By the time we thought we may be able to film some more on the streets, a cloud rolled over and it started getting pretty dark. I decided I’d rather get more on a nicer day when we actually had a good chance of filming more fluidly where we could take videos where the camera followed the skateboarding smoothly.

Next time I’m going to make sure I have more than him and I, so that there’s someone to film whilst on a board too. I’m sure I could do it, but directing my friends who are actually experienced in skating and filming it will make it easier for me to see my artistic filming visions play out. I’m looking forward to having a better and more productive day of filming than this one – I feel like it was a big waste of my one day I had to film.

Hoping to get my bike tyre fixed soon as well, excited to film some stuff from my bike. I may just use myself as the subject in this sequence of shots, but I may have my mother to help out in this department as well. Making times to film is proving very difficult when myself and everyone around me is so busy all the time!