{"id":316862,"date":"2021-07-06T11:15:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T11:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocomplynetwork.com\/?page_id=316862"},"modified":"2023-06-28T16:37:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T16:37:19","slug":"trav-wardle-in-focus-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocomplynetwork.com\/trav-wardle-in-focus-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Trav Wardle: In Focus Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

@danbuckjoyce<\/a><\/p>\n

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Trav Wardle is a skater, filmmaker and illustrator who <\/strong>produces documentaries, animations and music videos.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He’s got a solid perspective as a filmer and a unique set of opinions on creative production, skating and video making\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

So we caught up with him over Lockdown to find out how he got his first camera, making music videos for D Double E, short films with Sex Skateboards, Tim and Barry and Toddla T, animations for Long Live Southbank, influences and inspirations, his current setup, making videos for artists and brands, his favourite filmmakers, projects, skate videos and sections of all-time and much more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read Trav’s In Focus Interview below to find out for yourself<\/strong><\/p>\n

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How did you first start filmmaking?<\/h1>\n

I was just completely obsessed about filmmaking from a very young age.I used to pour over images of cameras I’d see in catalogues as a kid in the mid 90s.<\/p>\n

I saved all my pocket money in the hope I could afford one in the future. They were those absolutely terrible camcorders with the lens cap on a string and terrible built in fades, but they were wholly beautiful to me at the time. So when my family would borrow cameras off friends for holidays I loved using them.<\/p>\n

I had books on video making techniques, like the ‘Making of Jurassic Park’ which I was really captivated by. It had all the film’s storyboards, behind the scenes shots, and full page features of all of the big camera set ups that they had used in the movie, which I didn’t understand at all the time and still don’t.<\/p>\n

But I also had the same appetite to make comics and zines too. I just wanted to create visual things I could redefine as my own and give or sell to other people.<\/p>\n

My fascination with all of these things refined itself and evolved as I got older and more heavily get into skateboarding. They both became a huge part of my life to the point skateboarding, filming and drawing was all I did. But skateboarding gave me an avenue to direct the appetite I had.<\/p>\n

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What was inspiring you at the time?<\/h1>\n

I spent a long amount of time spent watching skate videos and realised it was essentially the evolution of what I was doing anyway. You saw those guys didn’t have expensive unaffordable kit, they weren’t classically trained filmmakers, they were just using whatever cameras they had and filming people around them.<\/p>\n

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What was your first ever proper camera set up?<\/h1>\n

\u00a0The first proper set up I got was a Sony VX2000. After that I got a PD 150, which is basically a more robust version of the VX2000.<\/p>\n

Those were all ancient set ups, even at the time. This was a little bit before the DSLR boom when cameras suddenly became super high quality in tiny bodys, and everything stepped up a gear. For the first 4 or 5 years I shot a lot of events, music videos and brand stuff on those set ups.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t look that bad now, has that kind of romantic 2000’s quality to it mixed with some motion graphics. I enjoy looking back at it.<\/p>\n

But at the time though you had the heads who took it to the next level making the most amazing videos that stuck out in your head.<\/p>\n

This really sparked a drive in me to just film absolutely everything that all of our crew was doing at the time.<\/p>\n

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What’s your favourite skate video from the UK and why?<\/h1>\n

Waiting for the World by Dan Magee<\/a><\/p>\n

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