{"id":113132,"date":"2015-12-09T08:51:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=113132"},"modified":"2015-12-09T08:57:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T15:57:26","slug":"the-tech-behind-the-greatest-surfing-film-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=113132","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; The Tech Behind The Greatest Surfing Film Ever Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Go Pro owns the world of action sports, and any shredder with a selfie stick or a mouth-held Hero 4 can be an online action star, why bother hiring helicopters and cameramen to shoot an old-fashioned surf movie?<\/p>\n<p>The newly released surf epic follows rising surf star John John Florence as he cuts his way across 50-foot swells off remote shores in Africa, Brazil, and Tahiti. The 23-year-old Hawaii native starred in the roughly $2 million film, which was a partnership with Brain Farm, a production company that is the Lucas Films of action sports filmmaking. Florence and his crew spent three years, broke about 70 surfboards, and employed as many as three high-tech 4K RED cameras (cost: $50,000 each) in a day\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/tech-behind-greatest-surfing-film-ever-made\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bTqVqk7FSmY?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Go Pro owns the world of action sports, and any shredder with a selfie stick or a mouth-held Hero 4 can be an online action star, why bother hiring helicopters and cameramen to shoot an old-fashioned surf movie? The newly released surf epic follows rising surf star John John Florence as he cuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-surf","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113135,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113132\/revisions\/113135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}