Capstone: One Year Skate Progression

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A video showing my skateboarding progression throughout the past year. I learned basic video editing and formatting as well as audio engineering. The clips are organized by trick and are ordered chronologically.

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How It Began

I was originally planning to have more interviews of skaters and their opinions on various aspects of skate culture to go along with the clips I had filmed.

How It Changed

I ended up solely focusing on my own personal progression in skateboarding instead of doing interviews. This choice was made because I underestimated the time it would take to learn various tricks and progress my ability, which was the original goal of my capstone. I also learned a lot about video formatting and realized that my old laptop could not physically handle to type of rendering I was trying to do. There were also issues with me getting a better computer so that halted my progression on video editing.

Reflection

Before I started investing more time into skating I didn't realize how mentally challenging it is as well as physically. Up to this point I have not done anything more taxing on my body. I found myself less anxious after skating and it definitely improved my patience when doing other tasks. My pain tolerance and general insurance is insane compared to when I first started skating. I used to only be able to skate for an hour or so at a time. Now I feel like I have to force myself to take a break because I get so fixated on landing a trick. I also learned more about computer specs and how they apply to various digital media; things like audio formatting converting files, file organization, etc.