Show:
Educational
Characters
Learning
Skate Board History
Misc.
100
a broad facet of visual expression that is based on an attempt to document reality and educate audiences.
What is documentary?
100
The youngest of the zephyr skate team, and first to go in the 1975 Del Mar Skate Competition.
Who is Jay Adams?
100
Half way between a Mid shot and a Close Up
What is Medium Close Up?
100
The very first wheels were made of this material
What is Clay?
100
Name of territory encompassing three beach communities of Santa Monica, Venice, and ocean park where the Z-Boys grew up.
What is Dogtown?
200
In this documentary mode The medium is acknowledged in order for the viewer to understand it critically. Discusses the problems of making the documentary. Makes explicit the process of representation. Makes explicit institutional issues (such as who is funding the documentary).
What is Reflexive Mode?
200
Narrator of the documentary
Who is Sean Penn?
200
The view is so far from the subject that he isn’t even visible. This is often used as an establishing shot.
What is Extreme Wide Shot?
200
Skateboarding was originally called this
What is "Sidewalk Surfing"?
200
The Zephyr Skate Team uniform consisted of this type of blue
What is Navy?
300
This frame size includes The action is seen as if the viewer is standing far away. It shows a lot of information that includes people’s bodies from head to toe, plus the scenery that surrounds him or her. Movements are large and expressive, if they are detected Images this far away have a psychologically distancing affect. You get the “big picture” and the context, but little connection.
What is Wide Shot?
300
Mexican american skater of the Z-Boys that started his own skate company, and had the biggest ego of them all.
Who is Tony Alva?
300
this "from the camera" includes Camera hidden or not: unobtrusive camera captures conversations.
What is People Talking?
300
A petroleum based material that went on to replace clay wheels, and are currently used today on current skateboard wheels.
What is polyurethane?
300
What surfer impacted the Z-Boys skating style?
Who Larry Bertlemann?
400
This type movement includes The viewer can follow action or see a larger area than can fit into frame. Movement implies there is a reason to change your view. Where you are led to look is more important than what you are leaving behind, and the new view reveals something about how you see the whole picture.
What is Panning Left and Right?
400
The only girl skater of the Zephyr Skate team
Who is Peggy Oki?
400
In this type of movement This action in the image can provide the viewer with more information than just an image in the frame. When the image is seen from above it implies that the image or character in the shot has little power. When the image is seen from below it creates the opposite effect.
What is Tilting Up and Down?
400
After the decline of skateboarding popularity in 1965, the skateboard was compared to these two child hood games. (just need one)
What is the yo-yo? What is the hula hoop?
400
Name of the Z-Boys Skate team
What is Zephyr Skate Team?
500
"From the camera" that causes reflection and enhances sound.
What is Blank Screen?
500
This man directs and stars in the documentary of Dogtown and Z boys as one of the skater of the Zephyer Skate Team.
Who is Stacy Peralta?
500
In this mode The acknowledged presence of the camera and crew The film-maker speaking directly to her/his subjects An emphasis on monologues and dialogues Representation of multiple viewpoints, contributing different information Editing which maintains logical continuity No definitive argument, leaving the audience to decide
What is Interactive?
500
He is the creator of Cadillac wheels which is the company to used polyurethane as skateboard wheels instead of clay.
Who is Frank Nasworthy?
500
This is the most important aspect of skating to the Z-Boys. It's what everyone on the team strived for...
What is Style?