Concept Statement:

How has video, computers and the network been used to reshape skate videos as an example of online video practice?

Case study: Julian Melanson – Art in The Streets

We aim to analyse the evidence of skate video culture and aspects of skate video as an online practice, within this case study. We will look at the reasons why an array of particular aspects have a place both in the case study and in the conventions of skate videos. We will also experiment with sketches that address these aspects and explore how they work. So that by correlating these discoveries with the presence of video, computers and the network, we can determine how skate videos as an online practice has been reshaped.

Sketch Ideas-

– Production Elements: (4 sketches)

1 Film Burn / General Transitions

2 Fisheye / Low Angle Tracking

3 Slow Motion / Atmospheric Editing

4 (undecided)

– Narrative / Structure: (3 sketches)

1 Editing to the music (music video culture/narrative)

2 Sporadic editing (non-narrative structure)

3 (undecided)

– Form: (3 sketches)

1 Game of S.K.A.T.E (interactivity) ??

2 Brand association and idealisation

3 (undecided)