Camera Movement
Like Catherine Hardwicke's other movies, Twilight and Thirteen, the camera movement is largely caused by hand held cameras but it slightly more stable then the other movies as I have noticed when watching them.
You see Hardwickes signature zoom in and zoom out camera movements a lot in this movie. An example of this is when the Z-Boys go down to the pair to go for a surf and the camera shakingly zooms in and out and pans across the poles of the pair where some people were surfing. The shakiness of the camera gives the movie a dirty, raw feel of Venice beach in the 1970's.
One of the scenes in this movie that I find very intriguing is the skating scene when the boys first try out the new oil based wheels someone gave them at the skate park. The whole thing was filmed on a skateboard it's self following another skateboard and the camera would have been taped on to the end of the board so all you could see is the the bottom on the board and the wheels turning on the concrete. This is a fantastic way of bringing in the skating culture and how it all works into the movie and makes it a lot more interesting. The camera movements when this happen are just going with the flow of the board so they are a bit shaky but that makes them raw and real.
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