Change
Skateboards’ James Denomme blasted some good ol’-fashioned snail-mail over to
the Concrete office while I
was working on a feature
column for Push.ca about his Windsor-minded and Toronto-based board
brand. The envelope contained a copy of Change’s 2009 video, Midnight Lumberjacks, and some stickers
because, well, even grown-ass men like stickers.
The video
features Ontario heads Jesse Tessier (metal-driven mannies), Mitch Pryma
(intense switch skating), Max Fairley (kid’s comin’ up), and Hilliard
Sulpher (steady
chargin’). I was hyped to see a solid collection of raw,
straight-to-the-point street footage smoothly spun through Final Cut. It’s a
good watch, and I’m only assuming that a lot of people all the way out here on
the west coast may not have had the pleasure of getting their grips on the DVD.
Well, the video’s primary filmer and editor Chris Quick (whose camera work is also featured in TENS)
hit me up from the Windsor
Hut to let me know that Lumberjacks
is now available online. He also answered a few questions related to his
recent output:
When did you start filming for Midnight Lumberjacks?
I guess filming technically started in the fall of 2007 after I finished
Change’s first video, Fireworks, Dancing,
and Cartwheels. I sold my VX2100-Raynox camera setup after that, and got a
VX1000-MK1 setup. I was originally planning to do my own project after that first
video, but since the owners and all the dudes on Change are good homies that I
was skating with on the regular, I figured: “What
the hell, my video can wait another couple years”.
The intro to Fireworks, Dancing, and Cartwheels.
It’s common for deadlines to get pushed
in most video projects, was that the case with this one?
I started messing around with all the footage in the spring of ’09. I think
they originally wanted to put it out before the summer but I really didn’t
think we had enough footage. Everyone stacked some more clips, and I really got
down to editing at the end of summer.
What vision did you have for it from the
beginning?
I wanted to make a short
video that gets you stoked to go skate, no drawn out HD intros or lifestyle stuff
(not really down for HD). Just a little bit of film, and as much skating as you
can cram in. The video ended up being 21 minutes front-to-back, which everyone
has been hyped on.
Midnight Lumberjacks, Part 1:
Midnight Lumberjacks, Part 2: