Texas Curse: Trailer by Jordan Smith
quoting Jordan Smith:
It is June 24, 2009 and I am uploading the trailer for my video called TEXAS CURSE.
The name comes from my friend Jason Reyna. One day while we were out skating, when this project first began, he explained why my video was doomed.
He reminded me that all the videos in Texas take forever, or don’t get finished, or the producer quits rollerblading. This is something he likes to call the Texas Curse.
I figured this couldn’t happen to me because I had plenty of motivation. At the time we had a few different ideas for what to call the video but one and a half years later, with two years worth of footage, we decided Texas Curse made sense.
For whatever reason God decided to slow down the making of this video. For starters, everyone in the video lived scattered across the DFW metroplex and at the time gas prices were up to four dollars.
Brady Johnston was actually going to have a section in this video until we realized it just wasn’t going to happen. He lived too far away, and when we started he had a hand injury.
Between his job and my schoolwork we never got too much filming done. Richard Jones lived an hour away depending on which city I was living in and he could only skate on Saturday and Sunday. To make things worse when we started filming I watched him get taken away to Denton County Jail over some dumb traffic tickets.
Keaton Newsom filmed plenty until he went to jail and had his license taken away. Then he sort-of fell off the map for a while. Dylan Voisard was getting some cllips done but after a series of injuries and aggravating sessions he decided to quit skating for a while to re-evaluate how much he likes rollerblading. I ended up going to jail over some not so serious vandalism. The stress of going to jail put the video on the side for a while.
There were too many things that got in the way of this video. During winter I almost gave up on the video, then when Spring came and I looked through my footage I thought I was almost done so we kept the video going.
Finally when the camera got lost in Austin I decided it was time to wrap it up. I realized Jason was right and it was time to start editing. So here is the trailer. I hope you like it.
Check the video in HD Streaming.
Thanks Ztriggs.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
That trailer weirded me out.. I like it when that happens!
Props for getting the film done under those circumstances..
June 25th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Sick, I remember Jordan saying something about this at allen skatepark. Sick shit, man. Can’t wait.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
dam looks good, love the way the edit was cut
June 25th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Loved it….fuck yeah…Texas
June 25th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
THAT WAS AMAZING!
June 25th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Thanks for the post, everyone be sure to check it out on RollingMission.com
June 25th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Every video in Texas fucked up? Well you fucked up with that trailer, it almost gave me motion sickness, Get you After Effects down then make a video, everyone with a HD camera think they can make a video. O I have a Panasonic HPX/HXV and a Fisheye that my mom bought me, let’s make a movie.
June 25th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
wow you my friend are an ASSHOLE
nice trailer. I’ll be checkin this out
June 25th, 2009 at 6:45 pm
drink enough haterade stinkmeaner?
June 25th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
RAW! Good form dudes.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
damn. that looked sick!
I like the name.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
damn that was sick as shit. everything in that was badass. the skaters are fuckin good as hell and the editing and effects were tight as fuck. mad props dog. looking forward to seeing it. and that stinkmeaner is a fuckin asshole who doesnt appreciate anything good in life.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
…liked it. Stinkmeaner´s got some issues to work on….
June 25th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
really liked that!!
June 25th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
Getting a compliment from Jonas Hansson gotta be worth somethin’!
June 25th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Looked sicckkK!
June 25th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
looks awesome, love the rolling on paper type effect then cutting back in and BAM! sick tricks etc etc
June 25th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
WOOOOOOOOWW! FUCKING WOW; I REALLY MEAN WOOOOOOOOWWWW>!
June 25th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
I still have no Idea how they get into splashtown…… :l
looks really good, nice moving camera work.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
these aren’t just kids with a camera.. look at the skating!
yeah jordan, love it
June 25th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
next level skating and the editing/motion graphics werent too shabby either!
June 25th, 2009 at 11:58 pm
that was sickkkkk!
i cant wait to watch that when im high :D
June 26th, 2009 at 12:05 am
thats that shitt right there!
loving the disorientation…
whats the song?
June 26th, 2009 at 1:15 am
OMG…I have to see this…thats all i gotta say
June 26th, 2009 at 1:26 am
stinkmeaner, your a dick
June 26th, 2009 at 5:29 am
looks sick, can’t wait.
June 26th, 2009 at 5:37 am
Keaton’s sick.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:32 am
i liked it a lot, the song flowed well and it wasnt too over edited.
June 26th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Very nice. Killer spots. Looking forward to seeing it.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Looks awesome Jordan!
June 26th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Texas!
stinkmeaner, wheres your video?
June 27th, 2009 at 8:05 am
I love this trailer! The style is rugged and hardcore. Man bout damn time! Bring this out already :D!
June 27th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
looking good even with those setbacks
song?
June 28th, 2009 at 8:44 am
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June 28th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Dear Stinkmeaner… we don’t have high-def cameras because we’re poor and can’t afford them. We tape fisheyes onto cameras and don’t have after effects… frame by frame in photoshop sir. Sorry you have trouble telling the difference.