Yeah Right!
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Yeah Right! Is a skateboarding video by Girl Skateboards, directed by Ty Evans and Spike Jonze. It is notable for its soundtrack, length, and the extensive use of never-before-seen special effects.
The introduction credits for the video feature a unique series of shots in ultra-slow motion, been filmed with Jonze's personal camera that is capable of shooting 100 frames per second. The camera is low to the ground and very close to the skateboarder as various flip tricks are completed.
Throughout the video, there are many special effects used. The first one seen is on the title clip, where skateboarder Eric Koston pushes up to an invisible ramp, goes up into the air and clears an entire road. As he lands, skateboarder Brandon Biebel shouts, "Yeah Right!"
A few minutes into the video, a skateboard is shown sitting alone on pavement. All of the sudden, it is given the effect of moving away on its own. This sequence continues as the skateboard moves from shot to shot, and is passed between different skateboarders around the city. For example, one skateboarder will pick up the board and throw it out of the camera shot. As it leaves the first shot, a new shot appears and it is as if the skateboard was thrown directly to the person who catches the board while standing in this new shot.
A cameo is made by Owen Wilson halfway through the video. He is in a parking lot with Rick Howard, Eric Koston and Mike Carroll preparing to perform a trick on a handrail. By framing the camera very carefully, it appears that Wilson attempts the extremely difficult trick (Frontside Noseblunt). However, while the camera was looking the opposite direction for a moment, Wilson had slipped out of the frame and is replaced by Eric Koston who is wearing a wig and matching clothes. Koston performs the trick down the staircase and Wilson reappears in the shot to make it look like he completed the trick.
Also there is a section in which the skaters start skating on invisble skateboards, at various street spots. The boards had all been painted bright green, and were then greenscreened out of the footage during the editing process, giving it the invisble skating effect.
[edit] Trivia
- Three cameras were damaged beyond repair during the course of shooting.
- Owen Wilson's part is actually Eric Koston in a blonde wig and matching clothes.
- Each skateboarder with a full section in the video performed an insane trick using a greenscreened ramp which was removed during editing.
[edit] Soundtrack
- Keenan Milton: Royal Flush - Worldwide
- Intro : Squeak E. Clean - Martian Sunrise & Dub Diablo - Disco Headache
- Brandon Biebel: Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids (Instrumental)
- Brian Anderson: Interpol - Obstacle 1
- Crailtap Section: Fatlip feat. Jurassic 5 - Today's Your Day
- Marc Johnson: - Intro: Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People
- Marc Johnson: - Nick Cave - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy division cover)
- Chocolate Montage: David Bowie - Fame
- Gino Iannucci: Guns N' Roses - It's So Easy
- Owen Wilson: Public Enemy - Terminator X
- Robbie McKinley: Talib Kweli - Get By
- Mike York: Funkadelic - I've Got A Thing, You've Got A Thing, Everybody's Got A Thing
- Justin Eldridge: Incredible Bongo Band - Apache
- Girl Montage: Death in Vegas - Help yourself
- Paul Rodriguez Jr.: Nas - Get Down
- Paul Rodriguez #2: Nas - Made You Look
- Jereme Rogers: Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
- Mike Carroll: Scarface - Born Killer
- Rick McCrank Intro: Ugly Casanova - Diamonds On The Face Of Evil
- Rick McCrank: Le Tigre - Deceptacon
- Invisible Board Montage: John Frusciante - Murderers
- Eric Koston: Frank Black - Los Angeles
- Outro: Fatboy Slim - Don't Let The Man Get You Down
