Tribeca Skatepark Five-Stair

For my visual poem I plan on shooting a video of my friend, Tim, in Tribeca Skatepark. Rather than a typical compilation-style video, my visual poem would be a multiple shot sequence centered around a single skate-trick. There’s this five-stair at the park that comes to mind as a really good spot to shoot a kickflip at. I have a fisheye lens that attaches to my phone which I can use to shoot in slow-motion. I want the video to capture the persistent nature of skating and include multiple shots of Tim bailing, if he does so, leading up to him landing the trick. I want the video to capture what most skate videos shy away from and that is skating is a process of repeated errors. Since the skatepark is right on the edge of Hudson river it has pretty decent lighting if the weather is right. The environment also lends itself to some dynamic b-roll including maybe some waves, the sun and birds along with the city. I want my video to have a dramatic tone. A friend of mine from high school recently released a song that I think would really lends itself well to a dramatic build-up. He said I’m more than free to use it. I can imagine my visual poem ending with Tim landing his trick and riding off into the sunset in slow-motion. This is the song: https://brendanroche.bandcamp.com/track/garage