Robin Schmidt

El Skid

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(95, 97, 97) !important; line-height: 20px; font-size: 10pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">I’m Robin Schmidt, also known in music video circles as El Skid. I’m a freelance director, editor and latterly cameraman, as well as doing all sorts of other bits and pieces like graphics and voiceovers. I am not a director of photography. And never will be. I’ve been working in music video, corporate and extreme sports up till now but my big love is drama, which is easily the toughest directing game to gain any kind of foothold on. I set up the production company Chrome Productions in 2002 which served as a brilliant apprenticeship for learning key skills, but I’ve now left to pursue drama, not necessarily in the conventional way, but in a way that reflects the changing landscape of filmmaking today, and the one that does away with all the bullshit that seems to float around this business. Earlier this year I won the&nbsp;<a href="http://14islandsfilmchallenge.bahamas.co.uk/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Bahamas 14 Islands Film Challenge</a>&nbsp;and earned the right to work with Canon as a pro envoy for video and convergence (a fancy term for shooting on DSLRs). I was also named one of&nbsp;<a href="http://www.moviescopemag.com/2010/05/robin-schmidt-director/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Moviescope Magazine’s ‘One to Watch’</a>&nbsp;which must mean I’m doing something right!</p><div id="attachment_2130" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; float: left; width: 210px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><a href="http://www.elskid.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/IMG_9304-2-e1288182753282.jpg" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: initial; outline-style: none; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><img class="size-medium wp-image-2130" title="IMG_9304 2" src="http://www.elskid.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/IMG_9304-2-e1288182753282-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "></a><p class="wp-caption-text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(95, 97, 97) !important; line-height: 20px; font-size: 10pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><br></p></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(95, 97, 97) !important; line-height: 20px; font-size: 10pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Some of the most enjoyable and most successful work I’ve ever done was when it was just me with a camera and someone to film. Don’t get me wrong I love having a big crew, big cameras, lights, and all that but it frustrates me hugely that filmmaking can be such a faff sometimes. I’m a director and want to be directing as much and as often as possible. Production is expensive but you can cut down on the cost of it by doing a lot of it yourself, particularly in post. It does feel like we’re going through a really exciting but terrifying phase in film and video history and I suspect we’ll see some fairly radical changes to this industry in the very near future.&nbsp;</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(95, 97, 97) !important; line-height: 20px; font-size: 10pt; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">All of a sudden over the last six months I've found myself propelled headfirst into comedy and absolutely loved it. After spending many years agonising over trying to make the best film I could involving the complexities of the human condition, it's nice to be able to go out and shoot films that make people laugh, showing us all a little piece of our own absurdity into the bargain. That's good fun.</p><div><br></div></span>

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