''Yeah Right!'' is a 2003
skateboarding
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video
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by
Girl Skateboards
Crailtap is a skateboarding distribution company based in Torrance, California, United States. The distribution company is home to Girl Skateboards, Chocolate Skateboards, Royal Skateboard Trucks, and Fourstar Clothing.
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(featuring
Chocolate Skateboards
Crailtap is a skateboarding distribution company based in Torrance, California, United States. The distribution company is home to Girl Skateboards, Chocolate Skateboards, Royal Skateboard Trucks, and Fourstar Clothing.
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), directed by Ty Evans and
Spike Jonze
Adam H. Spiegel (born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze, is an American filmmaker, actor, musician, and photographer. His work includes commercials, film, music videos, skateboard videos and television.
Jonze began his ca ...
. ''Yeah Right!'' is notable for its soundtrack, length, and the extensive use of never-before-seen (in a skateboarding video) special effects. In his book ''Skateboard Video'', Duncan McDuie-Ra considers ''Yeah Right!'' one of the four "finalists" of the skateboard video canon.
Summary
A short prologue pays tribute to skater
Keenan Milton
Keenan Milton (August 4, 1974 – July 5, 2001) was an American professional skateboarder from Atlanta Georgia. His sponsors included DVS Shoes, Chocolate skateboards.
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, who died in 2001. Milton was part of Chocolate Skateboards team, a subset of Girl Skateboards.
The introduction credits for the video feature a unique series of shots in ultra-slow motion, filmed with Jonze's personal camera that is capable of shooting 100 frames per second. The camera is low to the ground and very close to the skateboarder as various flip tricks are completed.
Although ''Yeah Right'' features mainly skateboarding, there are many special effects used. There are several different scenes in between skaters' parts which make use of
green screen technology like the "invisible skateboards" bit and other camera effects such as the "magic board" and the "Skatetrix" bits.
A cameo is made by
Owen Wilson
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