Simplicity

Spring Break Summer Vacation- Handmade Snowboards
First, feel free to jump around through this video. It's a little long and there are lots of other posts. Whatevs.

      It's been sometime since I've seen this video. I could have posted something with a much more defined narrative, but one of my favorite things about this is its simplicity. It's really just a documentary of creation and adventure- making snowboards and then testing them, and yet (for me at least) it's entertaining, inspirational, even charming. It's a testament to the beauty of creation and personality, of doing something different.
      The music is this video also contributes to the above. It's a little different, maybe not what we'd have chosen, but I think it's most effective because it's unordinary.
      Cinematography has always interested me and that's something that's well done here. From a aesthetic standpoint, Spring Break Summer Vacation is relatively advanced. It looks good, and yet was made quite simply. This for me serves as motivation to follow suite and continue to explore cinematography. To document this, all you really need is a DSLR, a few lenses, and decent color/editing software. I also liked the framing and coloring. It was commonly center-framed, which commonly, is frowned upon (rule of thirds!) but I found it effective. The color was also very film-like, with high contrast, warm tones, and poppy, cross-processed-ish colors. I love the traditional film look so likewise, the color in this sweet vid.
      If this video did have a purpose, I think it'd be a call to adventure, a call to thinking outside the box. I enjoyed it because of its personality, its quirks, its difference (it was awesome). These people could have very easily just used their own snowboards, but no, that would be lame. Don't be afraid to do something different, to try something new, to be yourself. Also maybe, go have fun with your bros. Wear sunglasses. Do big turns.
      This piece has very little dialogue and yet it's completely effective. Of course it's not as if there's anything complicated to explain, but nonetheless, it's lack of dialogue pulls the viewer in, focusing less on the literal, palpable but more on the visual, speculative.