Lucky Scooters: First Clover DVD Review.

So I finally got my copy of the Lucky DVD recently and watched it a few times. I'm not gonna lie, it wasn't quite as good as I'd thought it would be...but it definitely wasn't bad by any means. I'm gonna be nitpicking with a lot of this but don't let that stop you from buying the DVD. Lucky is a legit company and the team worked super hard on the video.

The DVD opens up with an all slomo'd montage of everyone....the slow mo gets a little boring after a while but then James Gee's part comes up. James is definitely a boss, but the whole part felt off to me because of the music choice. Usually in Lucky videos they use rap, but James was some mellow song that I felt didn't fit at all.

Overall the video used a lot of songs that I didn't think fit, or that were already used...I think there was only one rap song, in Evan Yamada's section, which worked all right but not amazingly. There were two or three songs in there that were already used, which REALLY bothers me in videos. I think next time Lucky makes a video, they should stick to using rap, I've gotten used to them using rap and it just feels more legit when they use it.

Riding wise, the video is very entertaining. The Lucky team def kills it. Butttt I kinda felt like I was seeing the same thing over and over again...360 whip, briflip, smith combo, repeat. The split sections did mix it up, Tyler and Stefan have fresh parts. I've gotta say though, from the teasers I expected more. The teasers gave away nearly all of the bangers, which is rather disappointing.

As far as filming and editing goes, I think they did a decent job. There's some clips with a dirty lens, or where the sunshade is showing, steadyshot on with a fish, etc., but then you gotta remember that this is a scooter DVD...a company's first DVD isn't going to be perfect. These guys aren't professional filmers, so it doesn't look quite like a skate or bmx DVD. There were a few different filmers, who use different cameras so some clips look a little different (especially Callum Batty and Gage Casal's part, which was all HD footage). Most of it was filmed with a VX. Now a VX films standard definition, or 720x480 lines of resolution with a 4:3 ratio, but it looks widescreen (16:9) because they upres'd it to HD, which is something you never see with BMX/skate videos. But keep in mind, this isn't a BMX/skate video, its a scooter video, and honestly the level of filming of our sport isn't quite up to BMX/skate standards. So IMO they did a pretty good job of getting the riding on film, there weren't any cut off heads and for the most part they weren't shaky.

So overall I think there are definitely some things that Lucky could have improved on. Now I'm not saying this to bash on the team, as a first video it's good, but hopefully they can take my input and make their next video even better. Even with just different songs, the video would have been 10x better for me. I'm def looking forward to the next Lucky DVD, I know I'll be getting a copy of my own.

You can buy the Lucky First Clover DVD here.