Sunday, May 12, 2013

Emerica: Stay Gold


A highly anticipated and critically acclaimed product of the skate shoe company Emerica, ‘Stay Gold’ is a skate video that incorporated creative and innovative movie making with artistic direction and crisp skateboarding footage, it was released in 2010 and follows the basic guidelines of a skate company promo video, divided into sections dedicated to the individual team riders. The running style and theme through the video is shaky interludes and bridges, with scribbled hand written typography for the titles and a green tint to the actual footage, using mainly gold, green and similar shades. It is a free flowing piece of film and is easy on the eye, the individual clips are woven together with a soundtrack that accompanies the immersive feel(1) of the video, the use of footage of road trips, travelling and various lifestyle shots give character and represent the journey of the team through the filming process and give an insight into what the skaters personalities are like and what they actually do while skating. I would say that this is my favourite skate film that i have seen, as you get a real feel of the actual touring and what goes on behind the scenes, along with the attractive filming locations and free flowing style of the cinematography makes it easier watching than many other skate films.

(1) 'Chris' Unknmown Date http://www.trashfilter.com/emerica-stay-gold-dvd-review Paragraph 4

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