The new UK DVD ‘Let It Never End’ was realeased for sale last week. We asked director Ben Shelbourne to tell us a bit more about the project.
Let it never end started out in a student flat as part of an obsession to make a skate vid. I’d wanted to produce a skate vid from when I was growing into skating watching Coup de tat, the VG series, Brain_Fear_Gone, What Do You Beleive In, ANY Joe Navran Film, etc, etc All I was really waiting for was a group of skaters that I wanted to capture and expose.
When I moved to Manchester my first port of call was Adam Kola, who since then has become a good friend and someone I look up to for advice and respect a great deal. He introduced me to skaters like Julian Coulter, Tim Darker, Tom Ashmore who are all now considered part of the old school Manchester skaters. After hanging out with Kola, Big Al Morris and Frazer Watson i slowly started to meet all the new skaters like Nick Lomax, Alex Burston, Oliver Smallman, Tez Murrey, Scott Hallows, Elliot Stevens, etc and we skated almost everyday.
It wasn’t until I got my own camera as I was doing a film course at uni and Nick won the IMYTA Amsterdam that I realized the potential of the people around me. I’d never seen anything come out of Manchester before and was juiced to maybe be the first to cover what everyone around the UK at the time was calling the new skate scene of the UK after London skaters brought out TEAM.
So cutting a long story short, we started filming as much as possible before I finished uni and went back to Chester. We finished about 50% of the video before I returned home so after that it was a case of travelling all the time to meet the guys to film.
Winter pretty much stopped all manner of filming and skating which gave me time to consider a name, a concept, time and cost of what we were doing. So sitting down at my computer one night I started writing down key words to try better understand what I was actually capturing. It came to me one night about a month after brain storming how much I enjoyed the perks of skating and all the traveling I’d done and how many people I’d met since being in Manchester. Let It Never End was an obvious choice as I never wanted to stop this lifestyle I had stumbled across as a kid doing recreational skating and had been committed to for so many years of my life.
So after that it was simply a matter of shaping the style of the video round this concept!!! This unintentionally gave the video a very transparent sign of progression not only with the skaters pushing their own limits as they realized their own potential but also my own production skills. Now we intend to carry on the idea of Let it never end with a few added surprises that im sure the UK will be fully onboard with to help grow and show how much heart the UK has to offer skating.
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