SKATEISTAN: TO LIVE AND SKATE KABUL
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Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul is a beautifully shot film that
follows the lives of a group of young skateboarders in Afghanistan. Operating against the backdrop of war and bleak prospects, the Skateistan charity project is the world’s first co-educational skateboarding school, where a team of international volunteers work with girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 17, an age group largely untouched by other aid programmes.
BY ORLANDO VON EINSIEDEL
follows the lives of a group of young skateboarders in Afghanistan. Operating against the backdrop of war and bleak prospects, the Skateistan charity project is the world’s first co-educational skateboarding school, where a team of international volunteers work with girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 17, an age group largely untouched by other aid programmes.
BY ORLANDO VON EINSIEDEL
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This video is slightly more about skateboarding as a means, than an end itself. Hence skateboard kids complaining. T, personally don't like it thaat much either.
But hey, everyone's has an opinion, neh? Let's all just better place it.. Or, watch the video again. Peacee..
The Filming, Grading, Editing, and Music is perfect.
I mean you can't go wrong with The Cinematic Orchestra.
At first I thought that this was all shot on an HDSLR and edited all by one single person, but I was still very happy to see that it was shot on film and involved many people.
I still don't understand the point of a Telecine except converting frames, why do you need two people to operate it?
One more gripe... The shot @ 2:44 suffers from MAJOR flickering issues. Either this was shot on a Digital Camera or something went wicked wrong during processing.
Any behind the scenes coming soon?
A telecine is the process to digitize film rushes so that you can then edit with them using a computer (rather than on a Steinbeck machine).
Yes, I'm well aware of the flashes... that's down to trying to shoot on film in Afghanistan.
There are some short behind the scenes films on our vimeo page if you're interested.
The reason why I asked is because I always hear about people using the Telecine Process even though they shot Digitally. THAT is what confuses me. Unless you go Digital to Analog to Digital which makes no sense.
I typed out the comment after I watched it for the third time so I was more concerned about the technical aspects of it.
Sorry for trying to provide constructive feedback and some questions...
As Grain said, Telecine is the process of scanning film frames into a Digital Format, grading and colour-correcting that as you go along and then playing the finished product out to digital tape, or a digital file, rather than printing it back onto film.
Although the telecine machine is technically just the scanner, the front end (i.e. the grading machine) something like a Spirit or a Davinci can grade from a source which is already digital too. So I am assuming that some people (being a bit old fashioned) may refer to the whole grade process as Telecine. Maybe?
Long winded answer I know, hopefully answers what you were getting at though!
DaVinci, I completely forgot about those amazing machines!
I just thought that it'd make sense to go the Digital Intermediate way but since it's only meant to be a digital video it just makes sense to go A>D
Thank you very much though! I'm obsessed with technicalities.
Skateboarding en su mas pura esencia.
Incredible !!!!
Kids, go on!!!!
Massive respect to everyone involved.
Skate to create .......
One love
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Thanks so much for this!!
I hope this is the beginning of more peacefull times in Afghanistan.
Do you know if there's a way to send them some used skateboarding stuffs?
i'm wordless
thx
Congratulations.
Well done.
Is good to know how skate (and other sports) helps to escape of difficult situations even for a moment.
How are friends?
I read an article this morning about a Golf Club that opened in Kaboul too.