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Hoping to make skate filming more accessible to anyone trying to film clips for fakeskate or IRL skate montages. Based on my own knowledge and experience with skate filming over the years, we observe some of the cinematographic concepts that make skate filming the hyper-specific skillset that it is.

IN THIS VIDEO:
Filming a line realistically in these games is mostly about properly emulating a filmer's actions.
In this video we observe a badly filmed line of my own filming and examine what is detrimental, then start from scratch and go in-depth to make it better. Afterwards we cover a few general skate-filming rules of thumb such as "keeping the camera low" and "choosing between stationary or rolling start"

FOR HELP ON HOW TO USE THE REPLAY EDITOR:
JL’s video (The one that helped me the most) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70N4w0D7oR0
Milky’s video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBpTOLkVu84
Nightspeeds’ video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyCsPsdlXnc&t=456s


TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 – Don't let realism become a stigma.
1:24 – Disclaimer & referral for help with replay editor basics
2:26 – "Badly filmed" clip analysis
4:43 – Starting from scratch using my 5-step process
5:11 – Phase 1: set up filmer's trajectory
5:34 – Step 1: Start and End keyframes of the CLIP
6:41 – Abrupt Stop issue explained
7:41 – Step 2: Filmer's movement start and end
8:23 – Step 3: Fine tune the filmer's POSITION in the line
9:51 – Phase 2 / Step 4: filming the actual tricks / One keyframe per trick
11:50 – Step 5: fine tune the filmer's SPEED in the line
12:40 – Filmer Speed: explained (big picture)
15:27 – Fixing two keyframes that are too close together
17:00 – Fixing camera halt / robotic movement at end of line
18:10 – Fixing camera "wind up" at start of line
18:50 – Final result
19:33 – Rule of thumb explained: Fisheye angles always low to ground
20:10 – Low fisheye angle: bad and good examples
21:06 – Choosing between Rolling or Stationary start
22:40 – Reason for a rolling start
24:41 – Reason for a stationary start
25:05 – Bigflip Front Nose :)
25:30 – Closing summary
26:48 – Upcoming Videos

Wishing you patience for your practice!

All gameplay videos captured directly through PS4's clip saving system via the Share button.
Facecam video recorded on GoPro Hero 3.
All music recorded by myself, under musician name Haluuf the Rabbit (Spotify, Youtube, etc etc).