Dogtown and Z Boys

I think this is both an ethnographic study and a work of entertainment because it has some history involved in it and facts, but also it is very entertaining and easy to keep watching. Surfing and skating itself is entertainment. The interview subjects are members of the surfing and skating group. They were all like a close group of friends. They are important because they are the heart of the story. The interviews are major roles in the film. The interviews enlighten the story and give it more meaning. They do move the story along, because they give the viewers and insider point of view. The attitudes that contribute to this subculture would be the overall "I don't care attitude". They were going to skate and surf wherever they wanted to no matter what. Their rituals were they skated every single day. The artifacts would be the surfboards, the skate boards, their logo tee shirt that was blue. The structure of this piece was easy to follow and understand. The way they did their interviews and put them into the piece with the music and pictures made this subculture easy to understand. I didn't really have any stereotypes about skaters because I grew up with all of my guy friends skating. Almost all of the stuff I saw in the film was true about my friends that I grew up around. Yes I trust what the film maker was telling us. If he was a skater, then it probably has some bias to it, but he flat out showed us everything like it was. My emotional response was excitement, I really thought it was interesting and fun to watch.