Online Silverscreen 2: The Harmony “Wolfstadt”
October 12, 2007
First things first, "Wolfstadt"? There's got to be a meaning behind a name like that, care to spill the beans?
Adam: I will leave Dave to explain the meaning behind that. I just like the name anyway, whatever the meaning.
David: Well the name sort of comes from a love of old war movies, a lot of Italian war movies, which basically are all about brothers in arms and loyalty etc, it kind of sounds like an old german castle too, but in truth the name sort of arose from everyone in the team not really being caught up in the hubbab the skateboarding world can be sometimes, and some vague analogy to skateboarding and media being about surviving the wolves sometimes. So it was kind of us saying, well this our own trip into ‘wolf town’, lets see what we come up with? I don’t know its all pretty vague, its just a sick sounding name.
Did you start filming for Wolfstadt straight after you finished Once Upon A Time or was there a period of down time?
A:There was quite a gap in between the two really. Straight after once upon a time was Christmas and the shit weather, then we did the ‘old/new shit’ promo. From then the footage started trickling in from the team until we got Wolfstadt in full flow and were planning it all out and putting together rough edits, trying out various tracks.
Time out in Sardinia. Photo: The Harmony
What were the first and last bits of footage that made the cut?
A: That’s actually quite a difficult one. Well in reverse order it would be, Joe’s switch tre over the Sweden gap to stair spot in Manchester. Joe had sent me a few tricks with that on the end but with the tripod hand down. I rang him and just said it was amazing and to just go back and do it bolts. The very next day it was sent as requested. I was so stoked with that, and just within the footage deadline too. I don’t really remember the first bit of footage that came in but an early piece was Danny’s back tail 360 out on that curvy Milton Keynes ledge. I was blown away by that and knew it was going in as an ender from that point. Danny really came through with his part and I think it will show him in a different light when peeps see it. A plus side with producing wolfstadt now rather than 2 years ago is that technology has come on so quick now it is so much more simple to get footage off the team without DV tapes going missing and glitches in tapes etc. I could get the footage clip the same day it was shot via things like ‘yousendit’ and my idisk ftp. And that also meant I could show each of the team rough edits of their parts, so we could work more closely together.
You gained and lost a few riders during the production of Wolfstadt, how much of an effect did this have on the end product?
A:Well, not too much really. All the team were gathering up footage at a steady rate and very rough edits were going down at an early stage, so we allowed for things like that. It was a shame that Paul and Tom were not so much of a part of the whole production process of Wolfstadt. It shook things up a little as we were such a tight unit with tom and Paul also, and I was thinking of all these ideas and song choices and that got messed around a bit. But it came together in the end, so im chuffed.
D: I was bummed on losing Paul, he’s one of my all time legends really, in fact the most of the original Unabombers were legends, but all I wanted for him, was him to be stoked on skating, and if that’s not with us then that’s just the way it goes.
