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How To Film Skateboarding

FrogyProd4 skaters recommend it · 5 mentions, 2014 to 2026
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503K views · 17 years ago · Tutorial · Beginner

FrogyProd's 2009 tutorial on filming skateboarding, made for a Grade 11 communications tech class in Toronto. Covers camera choice, fisheye lenses, and how to shoot a single trick or a line.

Why skaters like it

Gets linked when someone asks how to start filming skate clips. Commenters call it info-packed, and the maker says people still tell him it got them started.

“This video has a lot of information. As for how to actually shoot the skater, it depends if you are filming a single trick or a line, check out that vid.”

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What skaters said on Reddit

u/Justinba0072022 · 20 points

Honestly, if all you have is a cell phone, I personally just recommend you skip the fisheye. Most people aren't willing to hold their phone low to the ground enough to get a good fisheye shot since you risk breaking your phone, and the fisheye itself won't look great. And a lot of phones autostabilize which makes the fisheye shake all over. This is the tutorial I used to learn skateboard filming when I was like 11 ye

u/ixAp0c2014 · 3 points

[VIDEO] This video has a lot of information. As for how to actually shoot the skater, it depends if you are filming a single trick or a line, check out that vid.

u/Frogyprod2018 · 1 points

10 years ago I made the video "How to film skateboarding" ( [VIDEO] ) People still come up to me and say they learned how to start filming from that video. Over the last 10 years my style evolved with my taste into this. I know everyones loyal to Vx1000 footage and fisheye but I wanted to step outside that box and film using a 50mm and a super wide angle lens on a DSLR. No fisheye at all. The colors may be too vibran

u/RicoSwavy_2026 · 1 points

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