Brainstorm of ideas

My ideas for personal investigation-


These are ideas I have gathered for what I would like to create for my personal investigation which focus on my theme of surf and skate culture, I have lots of ideas and techniques I would like to try out in this project (which are shown in my brainstorm). I have decided I would like to try out filming action surfing swell as capturing stills of surfing and skating.

-Looking into documenting places (surf spots/ skate parks) and there role in the community
-Interviewing the people I am shooting 
-Creating a story behind the photos/vid

I D E A S  -

 -  Slow shutter skate photos

-  Surf filming/ short clips

-  Videography

-  Film photography ( portraits/ landscapes)

-  Life style film photog

-  Black and white film photog skating. 

-  In water photography/ filming (Go pro)


C A M E R A S  /  L E N S E S  -

- Fish eye

- Film cameras

- 70mm lens

- 70-300mm lens

- Digital cameras / to film on 

- Tripod 

- Flash


F I L M I N G   N O T E S  -

Set Frame rate of 30 or at 60 then drop to 30 

Shutter speed twice frame rate 1/60 of sec

ISO more light and appeture higher number bigger focus but less light

Manual focus

Using a tripod 


T H E M E ' S  -

- Surf and Skate culture 

- Movement

- Documenting a story/ day/ trip


A R T I S T S   I M   I N S P I R E D   B Y -

Ed West

Toby Butler

Seth Hughes ( filming)

Katie Rae

Nick Pumphrey

Calin Jones

Alias Babnik

Woody Gooch

Perry Gershkow


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